A review by sctittle
The Night of the Gun by David Carr

3.0

The premise of this memoir is brilliant: how do we remember the past, how do others in our past remember us, and how much truth lives within the facts? I applaud the late Mr. Carr for approaching the story of his recovery as if it were a news story he was researching and writing. It makes the book stand out from all the other recovery memoirs out there. But the story he tells overshadows his ingenious technique. And it is an incredible story. But you can't be objective about your own life, no matter how hard you try, when the details of that life hit the highs and lows experienced by David Carr. It saddens me to say this, especially after I did a little research and found out what a lovely man he was, and how much he helped other journalists and writers and addicts. Definitely worth reading because his is an incredible story. I don't know how else he could have written it to make it more captivating, but I totally appreciate this approach.