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A review by randi_jo
Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere by Maria Bamford
emotional
informative
reflective
medium-paced
2.75
The first 100 pages or so read very try-hard and almost made me put the book away forever because all she does is talk about how much you should hate her because she. . . has privilege and suicide ideation? Unsure. Anyway, once she stops trying to make every member of her family into a depreciative joke and starts to talk about herself and the cults (12 step programs, self-help methods, etc, not actual religious cults where you have to do morally and ethically questionable things to please a god-like figurehead) that she's joined in her quest for mental stability, it gets interesting and engaging in a way that feels very organic and personal.
The ending kind of putters out, as if she was unsure what to actually say to make it all end, lol. In all it wasn't a bad read, but I also feel sort of bad it took her 3 years to write it (she only lambasts herself about this fact about 800 times; beat that dead horse, girl).
The ending kind of putters out, as if she was unsure what to actually say to make it all end, lol. In all it wasn't a bad read, but I also feel sort of bad it took her 3 years to write it (she only lambasts herself about this fact about 800 times; beat that dead horse, girl).