Half-Life Die Already: How I Died and Lived to Tell About It
Mark Steele
David C. Cook, 2008, 280 pp., $13.99,
www.davidccook.com
The main theme of Half-Life Die Already is that the route to real living is dying to self. The formula is simple and familiar. Author Mark Steele fills the pages with random stories from his life and comes up with six decisions that stick out to him: moving from offended to teachable, selfish to selfless, protected to vulnerable, pretending to legitimate, applauded to known, and from “half-life” to “die already.”
Half-Life Die Already is a tough read—not because the content causes one to evaluate or look at the world around oneself differently, ala Blue Like Jazz, but because the reader is left wondering when it ever will shift away from self-centered navel-gazing—the very thing it is written against! Filled will thousands of “me” and “I” references, Half-Life Die Already reads like an autobiography and seems to be the same book with a different cover of Steele’s earlier effort, Flashbang: How I Got over Myself.
