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Book Review of Touch the Top of the World : A Blind Man's Journey to Climb Farther than the Eye Can See: My Story

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While I agree that Erik W.is phenomenal in facing his life challenges, I cannot give so strong an endorsement of the book itself. I am not a book editor but if I were, I would have substantially edited & pared down the nearly 350 pp. Sometimes, I felt that the plodding through the chapters was somehow intentional to set the tone for the slowness of the climb & reaching the end of a chapter was analogous to victory over the adversity of completing a climb.I also think an editor should have picked up on the "Mary and I vs Mary and me's" and "taught" vs "taut". Very inspirational book if you can get beyond those distractions.