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Not as good as it has been marketed to be. There were two passages I actually wrote down, but the rest of it wasn't anything remarkable. The writing was fairly beautiful, and considering the whole memoir was dictated only with the left eye, it makes this quite an astonishing achievement. There's also a bit of sense of humour left despite what has happened. Still, Bauby's condition doesn't make me judge the writing or the content any differently. His situation was unfortunate (for me it would be
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When people ask me "what's your favorite book," I cite this one. I read The Diving Bell and the Butterfly shortly after it was published, and I have re-read it several times in years since. The book was recently adapted for film by the director Julian Schnabel ("Basquiat", "Before Night Falls"). I recommend this book to anyone and everyone; the way Bauby describes his life from his locked-in is a lesson to us all to learn to live in the moment.
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I'm kind of in awe of the effort it must have taken to produce this book, slim as it is - to say the most important things you need to say solely by blinking your one good eye takes a patience and desire I doubt I could muster. The closing chapter is a corker and throws the rest of the work into perfect perspective.
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