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Summary: WHAT A PAGE TURNER!
Review: I read practically every book on mental illness and a good friend of mine who is manic depressive told me that "Electroboy" was probably the most accurate account of the illness.I literally devoured "Electroboy" in two days. It's a thrilling tale of a man who experiences such dramatic highs and lows of a devastating illness - - I just couldn't put it down. If you're expecting Elizabeth Wurtzel or Lizzie Simon, you're not going to find that in "Electroboy." THIS IS THE REAL THING! The writer takes you into the mind of the manic depressive and takes you along for the ride. It's a must read!
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Summary: Just plain bad
Review: I read the reviews posted here on amazon.com, both the one-star and the positive, and because I am an optimistic person and sometimes go in the opposite direction of the nay-sayers, I decided to give this book a try. I really wish I hadn't. Electroboy isn't a well crafted book. And this goes beyond the "manic" stylistic finish of the memoir. The book ignores a great deal emotionally, and this creates what was for me a fatal flaw. We are given here a series of wild, crazy adventures but little more. The result is like taking a ride on an amusement park ride, on a full stomach, and then taking the same ride again...and again...and again. In addition, there is a rushed quality to the prose that I wonder may not have been intentional. This book just lacks "art" that elusive, subjective quality that makes a book transcend its form and become something enduring, exciting and stimulating -for generations. Certainly, not every book can or should be expected to become a classic. But one wishes the author of this book had aimed a little higher.
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Summary: Shocking? not really.
Review: I saw the posters for this book around where I live in New York and it looked cool so I got it but what a waste of money! There is nothing about this Electroboy that is shocking or even very good. It's boring for one thing. If you like reading about brand names and stuff, go for it. But there's nothing here about what the guy really feels. It was weird because it's supposed to be so exciting to read and you'd think it would be. But I thought the writing was dull, it didn't have any "charge" to it. It feels like a gimic to me and that makes me mad, because I feel like this is some P.R. person's idea for a book and not really a real book on the subject.
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Summary: Well, it wasn't a great read...
Review: I've almost finished reading Electroboy (am on the 231st page). I think it's kind of a boring book. I don't feel like I learned a whole lot from it except that Andy Behrman is constantly moving, constantly doing something. He feels like he needs to do that. I feel sorry for him though; anyone who feels suicidal and miserable definitely holds my sympathy. I didn't really like the book a whole lot though..and I wouldn't recommend it.
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Summary: AT THE MERCY OF HIS IMPULSES
Review: I've read a lot of books on manic depression but Electroboy is probably the first account which really put me on to the rollercoaster ride of somebody suffering with bipolar disorder. I've battled with this illness for more than 7 years and felt like the author was recounting some of my experiences exactly as they happened--from having sex with strangers to abusing drugs and alcohol and staying awake for hours and hours. Behrman's pace is so rapid that sometimes you feel like he is going faster than you can possibly keep up with. But then he comes crashing down. I'd recommend the book for family and friends of both manic depressives and those who suffer from other mental illnesses, as well as those who are considering electroshock therapy.
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Summary: A fascinating book
Review: I've read the twelve reviews posted here so far and find it interesting that people either love the book or hate it - not much middle ground. I suppose this is a reaction to the author's forthright self-presentation, which appeals to some and turns others off. I vote with the first group - it seems to me an honest book, deeply felt (if not deeply thought), and very vivid in its depiction of a chaotic psyche. In the end there is, inevitably, a voyeuristic fascination on the part of the reader (meeting Behrman's exhibitionistic style more than halfway) but how can one not feel compassion in the face of such suffering?
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Summary: Electroboy
Review: If you have BP, you will know that Andy has not left out any details. This book is the closest to the real thing published to date!
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Summary: A bad movie-of-the-week...
Review: In his own words, Behrman brags to friends, and later to the reader, about his art forgery activities. In the writing and promoting of this book, he takes his penchant for fraud to a new level - this time, against the buying public. Few words of his "detailed" memories are believable, nor worthy of being in print. This book is one, long bragging session of mediocre exploits without an ounce of sincerity.
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Summary: what a loser
Review: man, this book really annoyed me. I didn't even finish reading the thing. first of all, it's a TOTALLY original idea -a memoir about a manic depressive dude who gets electroshock to cure himself, right? So you'd think it would be a really cool, interesting read. But no way. This thing is a big yellow dud. Behrman is a total spaz who can't even take his own writing seriously. it's like one big sham. all we get here is stuff about his shopping and his freaky sex life and his drugging it up: this stuff is the price of entry into the catagory -but that's all we get here, nothing more. I felt totally ripped off. what a total loser.
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Summary: Painfully unreadable
Review: Obviously the '80s were a nightmare for Behrman, but Electroboy was a nightmare to try to read in the '00s. It's less a memoir and more a 277 page run-on sentence. There's an overriding sense that Behrman is bragging about his exploits, since the details are accompanied by less than zero self-awareness. All memoir is self-involved, but this guy takes it to new depths. He's outdone Elizabeth Wurtzel -- and that takes some doing.
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