Review: I found the narrator very annoying
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 20, 2013
I don't often leave negative reviews but this book really annoyed me.  I picked it up for my Kindle to read about the father's journey with cancer, not to read about the son (Ashley) spending most of the book whining about his life.  The son's life is a mess because of his poor choices and we are apparently supposed to be mesmerized by repeatedly reading about how miserable his life is.Additionally, I did not enjoy how much of the book is focused on the son's attitude that death is a terrible thing, to be avoided at all costs - while at the same time insisting he wanted to be dead by 70 so as not to go through what his grandparents went through as they aged.I kept wanting to say to him didn't you ever take time to read books likeJourney of Souls: Case Studies of Life Between LivesorDestiny of Souls: New Case Studies of Life Between Liveswhich provide decades of research material by Michael Newton on results of his regressions of thousands of people to the time between lives and provide a great deal of reassurance on what comes after death.  (These are just two samples of many books, not to mention a variety of religions, that seem to have totally passed him by while he was busy smoking heavily, drinking, doing drugs and avoiding exercise, while vegging out in front of the TV and then wondering why his life was not going well.)My belief is that most folks with a strong belief in an afterlife of any type (no matter from what religion) would be put off by the narrator's continually make death sound like the end of everything.How the parents who were both very strong, admirable characters produced Ashley for a son, I do not know.  Because he does at least devote some of the book to them (although nowhere enough of it), I gave the book three stars but given how much of his whining we have to listen to in the book, that three stars was being very generous.If you are looking for a book about how a father's cancer impacts him and his family, I suggest you look elsewhere as not enough of this book is devoted to that topic to make it worth your time to read it.