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Sad tale of a man's life filled with tragedy. After a life of caring for a sick father then mother, Frome marries his wife Zeena out of gratitude for helping care for his mother. Wife turns into a hypochondriac who needs to be cared for by a relative Mattie. Frome finds himself being drawn to Mattie and when his wife states that Mattie must leave to be replaced by a girl who is better at taking care of a person, Frome plans to leave with Mattie but out of obligation decides to stay.On the way to taking Mattie to the train station Frome and Mattie confess their love and realize that both can't bare to be parted. They decides to end the problem by sledding into a big elm tree. Tale ends with Frome having limp, Mattie a bitter invalid being taken care of by Frome's wife. A sad tale of new love just realized that turns into regret and burden.

Straight forward account of a girl's stay in a mental institution. She places no blame or passes any judgements, just recalls the experience as she remembers it . In the end your left wondering whether she needed or even benefited from being placed there or if it was all the result of a doctor overreacting to symptoms that most teenagers at that time were going through.

Incoherent almost nonexistent story line based on sex and sexual disease. Broken sentences of thought and fragmented poetry. The only part that even came close to making any sort of sense was the main character's book report on the The Scarlett Letter, what a waste of reading time.

Hilariously funny, with an underlining emotional message.

Two sisters coming to terms in a world where bad things happen to good people and life just isn't fair. Sometimes you can't help everyone with their emotional problems in order to feel loved, sometimes you just have to accept your mistakes and learn to save yourself. A great emotional read.

This book with it crazy case of characters is a surprising gem. The characters remind you of relatives or friend you might have, but would never publicly acknowledge. The book starts out slow but it's worth the time it takes to read. The ending comes together nicely and you realize why he took the time to make you familiar with all the characters. A perfect example of how every event whether good of bad fit together in the scheme of things. It a shame the author ended his life so soon. I would have liked to read more of Ignatius Reilly's life.