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A Tale of Two Gimps: Such is Life

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This book ROCKS! It is a wonderfully humourous, yet serious look at how a young person can deal with and try to learn how to live with a life altering injury. Heroes in my opinion, "Duff" and "Mouse" manage to keep others laughing and smiling, as well as themselves, while they share in their recovery, healing, trials, tribulations and triumphs of their new challenges. I think this book would be an especially great read for those who are dealing with the healing and rehab of a serious injury. I was in a serious accident a few years ago and I found the book to ring true on so many of my own feelings, thoughts, and warped humour as I was overcoming my new found disabilities and the reactions of my friends and family around me while I was dealing with it all. It helps to know that others share in these totally foreign and new challenges one must face, and they do it with the same odd, yet interesting, humourous approach to help make it not so bad. This was the first book that I have been able to read from cover to cover and thoroughly enjoy since my accident that left me with a brain injury. I think that should be able to give you an idea at how interesting, funny, well written, and just plain fantastic that this book is. Thank you for writing it eh Duff :) I hope it reaches all the people who could use a little smile and some insight while overcoming something that has changed their lives dramaticly.

If you are like me, you like to read the truth.This is a great read, it has it all. It will make you think,It will make you cry, but most of all you get to see how a life can change and can happen at any time.Oh ya,Joe does know how to make you laugh and use humor to get by.I think this book would help anyone that is feeling down in the dumps.When I was reading the book I could not put it down.I was able to read it in 2 days.Duff has a gift that we all should have,and thats to take what they give us and do your very best at it.I hope you enjoy this book as much as i did. Yo Joe from PA

Duff,

Oh My God!!!!

I thought I would just read a couple chapters of your book the other night. Well I was hooked from the beginning. I have not laughed so hard and cried reading just one book before. I freaked out when right in the middle of the book I lost power. All night last night I kept waiting for the power to come on so I could start reading again. You wrote it so well it is like I know you and Mouse now.

You did a wonderful job! This is a must read for all adults. (The language and some scenes prevent it from being a book for teenagers but that is my opinion.) The book opens your eyes to alot of things. There are so many people who I want to tell them to run out to the bookstore and buy it.

Oh My, I am still laughing at the different parts as they run through my head. Thank you for writing this book for 101 reasons, some you may never realize. Though I do have one question because it has been bothering me since I read it. I just don't understand this part. Why did you rub baby oil behind your nads? Call me naive or leading a sheltered life, but I have no clue and it is driving me crazy wanting to know why.

Thank you for allowing me to read your book,

Brenda,
Texas

There is no way I would recommend this book to anyone to read. I should have gotten the hint when I really had to search for a description of the book but was excited to read a true story that dealt with this type of disability. The back cover depicts a story of overcoming challenges from tragedy but nowhere does it warn about the language, descriptive sexual experiences, high use of drugs, and use of their bodily functions to negatively affect others. I thought at first it was showing their lives before their accidents and how they were typical teenage boys but their recklessness and off behavior continues on as if it is no big deal. I feel they really degraded women throughout the book and their excessively offensive language added nothing to the story in most circumstances. I found no humor in it this book at all. For on the first 85 pages to discuss the ordeals in the hospital and rehab and the next +300 discussing sex, drugs and wasting away their money for ten years after the accidents is not dealing with their circumstances or enlightening others of their experiences. You can just about turn to any page in the book and be sure they are talking about any of the above circumstances and that is it. I don't mind when this type of stuff adds to the substance of a book but over and over again for 400 pages is enough, not funny and just irritating. I would of given it NO stars but you need to put at least one.

I am disappointed in the money I had to spend on this book and this will not be a book I keep.

This is an awful book that I would recommend to no one. There are grammar and spelling errors on almost every page and it reads like it was written by a fourth grader. I made it about 100 pages in and had to stop. I found no humor and no poignancy in this book at all. Save your money. Definitely do not buy.