al-rajihi

I read it before the scandal. If I had read it after, not necessarily believing all the details were all true, it might have been different...reading it and believing that it was all real and actually happened to someone certainly impacted what the experience of reading it was like for me. Either way - if I may put my psychology hat on for a moment - I thought it was an amazing and realistic (and amazingly realistic) portrayal of the type of emotional struggles, insecurities, and growth that people sometimes go through in therapy, and just of the types of inner struggles that people sometimes go through in general. To me, it wasn't about whether the external details were true (i.e., "It wasn't like real rehab b/c they would have given him drugs for the dental work"), but whether the internal experience was well represented. I believe it was amazingly well-represented. So even if some details were changed, the essence of the book was absolutely "real" - whatever that means.

2023-06-17 15:34