Review: Do NOT try this at home!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 5, 2011
OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG!  Wait....OMG!Ok, you know how you hear those stories about guys who get pinned under something heavy or they get a limb stuck and with the courage and will to live, they saw off their own arm with a spork?  You sit back and wonder how they had the where-with-all to undertake such a feat to save their own life, could you do it?  What steps would you take if you had limited resources and there was no one...absolutely no one...to help you.  You also have to wonder how they got into that predicament in the first place...was it an accident or should this guy be the next star of Jackass?In this story...it's more of a case of curiosity and the cat...  Poor kitty will never be the same.  Very much not for the faint of heart and a lesson on what not to do in problem solving.  The story itself is very well written, the author takes an extreme situation and, although the subject matter is graphic...oh so graphic, you don't know whether to run screaming or have a good laugh at the main characters tragic misfortune, and his 'ok-that-didn't-work-what'll-I-try-next' perseverance.  It's a really good read and I'm sure if anyone had seen me while reading, they would have quite enjoyed the theatrics of my reactions to the prose.Maybe I should put it this way...remember that scene in Stephen King's Misery where ol' crazy Annie hobbled Paul?  Where you could almost feel that sledgehammer slamming into that ever so fragile and nerve riddled ankle bone with a CRACK that's only drowned out by screams of agony?  And the second you read that passage you started shaking out your leg or went into a whole body spasm because OMG that would just hurt SO...DAMN...BAD?  Yeah, it's like that...the WHOLE book...  You've been warned.  But you know what...I'd recommend this book to anyone that I thought could 'take it' and enjoy it as much as I did.