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My thoughts

2025 rr// 5 stars!! 4/5stars What you end up remembering isn't always the same as what you have witnessed. I don't think I could have imagined a 150-page book could take me about a week to finish. But here we are. And as much as I despised the slow pacing of the book, I get why that happened. The writing style is choppy and blunt to the point where I sometimes just paused the audio and sat to think, why? just why? That being said, the subject matter and the actual topic of the book are very intriguing, and the way the author brought both parts of the story together was truly brilliant. The author uses strong imagery and I was very much convinced about everything the narrator said for the first few pages until I realized oh no. Oh NO! That made it even better. It was sheer brilliance on the author's part. It strikes me that this may be one of the differences between youth and age: when we are young, we invent different futures for ourselves; when we are old, we invent different pasts for others. Oh, and the concept of "pre-guilt". that- that was very interesting, to put it mildly. While this book answers a lot of questions, it also leaves us wondering how many Tonys are out there. Because let's be real we ALL have been in that spot and consciously or unconsciously we do, do the same thing. I'd also like to add why some people's entire reading experience might have been tainted because they couldn't look past how trashy a person the narrator was and that's I guess valid. But I loved that, I mean it made my experience even better(?) History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.