Crazy for the Storm: A Memoir of Survival

DNF @ pg 18

No, like absolutely not. I was reading this because I thought it sounded like an intense survival memoir. From the reviews I've read, that sounds somewhat true, but this kept shifting back and forth between the crash and Ollestad's life preceding it. I was ready to press on regardless, but the things he shares from his life before the crash are just... absurd. He talks about being a 10-year-old literal peeping tom, how he saw his neighbor “fucking” a woman and pressed his face right up to the glass to watch, and how much it turned him on. Excuse me? On the next page he recounts shamelessly looking up a girl's skirt at the beach. I put this down then and there. Perhaps these completely irrelevant memories of him objectifying women will turn into something, but I sure won't be there to see it. A boy with no self-control is one, albeit very sad, thing but an adult man who thinks these moments define him and his life? Yikes.