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For ten years, O'Neill worked as a night porter in a London psychiatric institution while writing and researching this book. Wow.
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2.5 stars
I wanted to like this book but it was too disjointed. There was too much going on and everything was not resolved. I feel like I spent so much time with this book, trying really hard to decipher the language and the innuendo that at least it could have been resolved in a more fulfilling way.
I wanted to like this book but it was too disjointed. There was too much going on and everything was not resolved. I feel like I spent so much time with this book, trying really hard to decipher the language and the innuendo that at least it could have been resolved in a more fulfilling way.

More like three and a half.

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