Review: Very unpleasant
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 07 12, 2014
I found this to be a very challenging and unpleasant read.  There's the fact that the book is not very well-written.  The language and usage are clunky,  That isn't the main issue, though.  What's really unpleasant is the subject matter.  The author was suffering from various conditions associated with being overweight, so she decides to move from England to Crete and lose weight.  The book is not about her journey to lose weight, it's about the challenges she faced while overweight.  That could be interesting, but there's no introspection in this book.  Instead, it's a screed rooted in what sounds like serious self-hatred.  Most of the book seems to be "Let me tell you how disgusting fat people are."  The author tells us about how it's oh so disgusting how fat people do this and that.  When she suggested that fat people are smelly I was ready to toss the book.  Were it not for the potential danger to my kindle I would have thrown it across the room.  In sum, a very unpleasant read.  Writing an autobiography about difficult circumstances requires a certain amount of introspection.  There's none in this book.