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Book Review of The Hour I First Believed

The Hour I First Believed
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After reading Wally Lamb's last 2 books I could't wait to receive this one. When it came the size was a little daunting, but as I got started I found the pages were flying by. He is such a talented author that you don't realize how much you've covered until you put it down. Unfortunately I don't think this book stands up to his first two. The subject is just as somber and he does a wonderful job of really getting the reader into the heads of his characters. While reading this book I was captured by all that was going on. However upon finishing it, in retrospect, I found it to be a little too much for one book to cover. There were just so many issues being covered and each one struggles to be the priority. This author does a great job of looking at the whole of a person's life to explain thier current psychological state, bt I think he may have gone just a little overboard this time. In addition he took a very serious nonfiction topic and by 3/4 of the way through he almost minimized it's importance. It's worth the read, but sadly does not compare to his previous work.