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This Isn't Going to End Well
This Isn't Going to End Well: The True Story of a Man I Thought I Knew | Daniel Wallace
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If we’re lucky, we all encounter at least one person whose life elevates and inspires our own. For acclaimed novelist Daniel Wallace, he had one hero and inspiration for so much of what followed: his longtime friend and brother-in-law William Nealy. Seemingly perfect, impossibly cool, William was James Dean, Clint Eastwood, and MacGyver all rolled into one, an acclaimed outdoorsman, a famous cartoonist, an accomplished author, a master of all he undertook, William was the ideal that Daniel sought to emulate. But when William took his own life at age 48, Daniel was left first grieving, and then furious with the man who broke his and his sister’s hearts. That anger led him to commit a grievous act of his own, a betrayal that took him down a dark path into the tortured recesses of William’s past. Eventually, a new picture of William emerged, of a man with too many secrets and too much shame to bear. This Isn’t Going to End Well is Daniel Wallace’s first foray into nonfiction. Part love story, part true crime, part a desperate search for the self and how little we really can know another, This Isn’t Going to End Well tells an intimate and moving story of what happens when we realize our heroes are human.
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Sara_Planz
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Daniel Wallace, author of Big Fish, has written his first memoir about his friend and brother-in-law William Nealy. Nealy was Wallace's inspiration: a cartoonist, author, outdoorsman. Wallace admired him so much that he became a writer himself. They first met when William was dating Daniel's sister Holly. Their friendship was shattered when William took his own life, leaving Daniel with a search for the reason why.

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mcctrish
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Snow White bag #12 final roof section and the end of this book. I read about this book a few weeks ago as one of the top 5 trending books. I‘m not sure it would‘ve been on my radar otherwise. The author has written a memoir about his brother in law who could do anything ( write, draw, build a house, ski, bike) he put his mind to and had the swagger of a movie star but as the title suggests, he also battled unsurmountable personal demons.

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mcctrish
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Next on audio while I gorilla garden before the rains come

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REPollock
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I should accept that I really don‘t care for memoirs.

Tamra I don‘t usually either, though I wish I did because there are so many! 7mo
REPollock @Tamra same. I just always get so impatient and irritated with the authors. 7mo
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A deeply uncomfortable look at Wallace‘s brother-in-law who died by suicide, this doesn‘t shy away from all the emotions Wallace has felt over the loss of a man who helped shaped who he, the author, is and was over the years. He does use excerpts from his BIL‘s journals which were meant to be destroyed after his death, which feels invasive. Full review at https://booknaround.blogspot.com/2023/07/review-this-isnt-going-to-end-well-by.h...

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booklover3258
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My review of this book can be found on my YouTube Vlog at:

https://youtu.be/6zhnO5aOYNc

Enjoy!

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BookNAround
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I started this a couple of days ago but set it aside for something I needed to read. Now I‘m picking it back up.