Review: Compelling Read
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 7, 2012
David Jester's The Line, the Itch and the Rabbit Hole, is a courageously written memoir, from a man who spent most of his life imprisoned in his own emotionalpain, in his room in depression, in acting out in social situations, through drug and alcohol abuse, dysfunctional relationships and mental sabotage, through anxiety ridden bodily reactions and experiences not understood or misdiagnosed, to create one short pathetic life of chaos and confusion. Where other reviewers enjoy Jester's humor, and I admit his quips were clever, and I laughed, and find it not unusual that he chose the alias, Jester, to mask his real name, I read through the subterfuge of averting humor into what must have been internal torment, to appreciate the undercurrent and how brave he was to write his story when most of his life he could barely come out of his room. In the end, through all the pain, the misdiagnosed conditions, the maltreated emotional states, the escape into drugs and alcohol, girlfriends, and health scares, it was the most remarkable thing that saved him, his writing. And, I might add, he deserves to be read.