Jason Waltz’s Reviews > Breakfast with the Dirt Cult > Status Update

The last chapter begins much like most of the previous: repetitive whining. Skimmed chunks of it. For the most part, while its ideas and credos are true and worthy, these pages since 244 on have been a manifesto of a troubled youth's soul. The book does end with 2.5 pages of stronger sense of purpose and even hope.

I suggest, though, if you read this book, closing and putting it aside at page 242.

Then we get to page 243, a chapter about recovering from his injuries and connecting with the girl of his dreams and beginning that transition from military to civilian life. It begins okay in the same nature as all the previous pages, but now it's become a ton of naval gazing and self-sabotage and sob story, and with 80 some pages to go it's difficult to read. It has lost its energy and appeal.

My plane read, brought this novelized military biography to read and leave, but enjoying it enough thus far to consider keeping it.