Review: Well written limited-scope  memoir
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 27, 2012
It  takes skill  to  write a memoir about a  topic  as sensitive as a  surgery that many people  would consider embarrassing.  It  also takes skill to make the experience somewhat dramatic,  and to have a reader think,  "utt-oh that's  not  a good  idea,"  while they are reading  (or in my case listening using the voice-to-text generator on my Kindle Fire HD.)An unexpected twist is written with humor, and it imparts a valuable life lesson that I learned long ago:  Don't just  believe in a doctor.  Check them out.  Find a doctor,  surgeon  or dentist who  is part scientist and part artist.In my opinion, it's not five stars because I think it would have benefited from a little more character development and it overused the shock value of the word, "shit."I listened  to  this through a text-to-speech generator, and I expected it to sound  boring  and  monotonous. It  sounded pretty good,  and there  was inflection.  You should  know that  I write and  I often  use an expensive  text-to-speech generator to listen  to my draft copy in several different  voices.  I think  some  of the  inflection was because  of  quality software,  but good software cannot insert inflection when the writing lacks a touch  of poetry. When  I say it sounds good, that's an  informed opinion.I would recommend this book to others, particularly those who are  about to have surgery.