Mike Marty

This may possibly be the strangest book I've ever read. It's an autobiography that is meant to serve as background and support for a novella the author apparently has out. It touches on the author's view about religion, leadership, sex, suicide and various other subjects, but doesn't really go into depth about any of them. I guess the author wanted to stimulate interest in his other book by writing this one as sort of a tease?

It's fairly short: 45 pages of printed material followed by 60 page of photocopied pages from the author's handwritten journals. The journal entries are numbered and serve as end notes to the printed material, although in many cases the printed material is word for word the same as the handwritten journal entries. There are also small pictures of the author at various stages of his life contained in the printed 45 pages, so this can be a very quick read of one does not constantly refer back to the end notes when reading it as I did. In fact, I'd recommend just reading the printed material straight through and then reading the end notes after that,

Full disclosure: I received a free copy of this book in a LibraryThing giveaway in exchange for an honest review.… (more)

This book is hard to review because as a stand-alone volume it is incoherent and disjointed. It isn't really a book and it isn't really written. This volume is more like a diary. He indicates this information is what he's using to support another book he is writing. The notes reflect things that happened in his life and his views on religion, sex and pretty much everything else. The first part of the volume is typed; the second part shows the hand-written journal entries the typed ones were derived from. I did not enjoy the content of this volume, but others might. The writer is a strong believer in Jesus and God and much revolves around his beliefs and how he is living his life to support Jesus. If you like to figure out what makes people tick, this might be a good volume for you also. There are lots of things that can be surmised about the author based on what is written and many questions that go unanswered. I really wouldn't recommend this volume to anyone who isn't interested in the background of the author. I can see this content is intensely valuable to him but doesn't mean much to me as a reader.… (more)