Location: United States
Member Since: Jan. 18, 2010
Jennifer Sicurella
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- 600 Hours of Edward
on Jan. 18, 2010
Fictional portrayals of people suffering from mental illness are usually extreme, enough to make us take notice of just how "crazy" the person is. In 600 Hours of Edward, we see life through the eyes of a man suffering from OCD and Asperger's Syndrome. What we see is realistic and shows how the life of someone mentally ill can be both very different and surprisingly the same as the lives of so-called "normal" people. This book really sucked me in and I just had to know where this story was going, causing me to read the entire book in one sitting. There were a lot of Dragnet references, which worked for me as I watched a lot of reruns on Nick-at-Nite as a kid. There was also a lot of Dallas Cowboy talk, which was completely lost on me. All in all, 600 Hours of Edward was a moving tale of a man's struggle to move beyond his illness and connect with people and a compelling read.