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Book Review of A Piece of Cake : A Memoir

A Piece of Cake : A Memoir
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The book was not bad overall but I have a hard time believing that someone who was so heavily drugged would be able to remember so many details of her past. She goes on about not remembering anything about the previous night when she woke up, but she just wrote a chapter on going out what they did and getting high or drunk. If she wakes up with no recollection of the night how did she write such a detailed account of the period leading up to it?!?!? It makes you feel sorry for her in the beginning but by the middle of the book I was blaming her and her friends for the reason things are the way they are. She tells of selling her rented furniture, using aliases for store credit cards which got maxed and never paid, stealing from everyone. Perfect example of where the stereotype comes from. You go from sympathy in the beginning to wishing she would just O.D. or get killed just to end the drain on society. Very long book. Not something I would recommend but not a horrible book, either.