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judicial decision from the other reviews, the awards, and multiple accolades Thom J adeptss writings, and "The Pugilist at Rest" in particular, return received, I am apparently in quite the minority. But hither goes I found an inherent falseness and overwritten emotion throughout the stories. Jones alike often tells the analyseer what he/she should be feeling instead of allow the reader respond sans prescription. Case in point "I wishing to Live" The son-in-law is the "good guy" (obviously the author -- tacky) who gives the dying woman Schopenhauer to read and narcotic medication to ease the unbearable pain no one else will even acknowledge. This revitalizes the woman in the extreme (I believe she convey god for her son-in-law at some point, which struck me as the author thanking God for the character of himself as he portrayed himself in the story -- again, ooh, tacky). Obviously, Jones pad Schopenhauer and through the character of the woman tells us that philosophy from tho the resultant roleive guy will turn it all around for us as we are dying an excruciating death. Please. This situation probably "actually happened" just this way in Joness life, but it doesnt mean the recounting of it reveals the truth. I excessively found technical medical error in the description of the essence of certain drugs on the womans pain. I have to paraphrase re the effect of methadone, something like "circles of orange orgasms blossoming through her body." Methadone has a immense half-life taken orally, as in the story, it would take a colossal time to take effect. Methadone works as a easy build toward pain relief -- good relief, but hardly orgasmic -- as opposed to an injection of morphine, for which an orgasmic description would have been appropriate.