Patrick O'Neil's Reviews > Liar

Memory isn’t linear. It’s a convoluted mess of responses to chemical and physical stimuli. One thought leads to another and then you’re off into the wormhole of similar and related occurrences touch tagging each other with their emotions. Couple that with mental health, drug addiction, numerous concussions, the lies one tells, and that odd retained bit of trivia and you have Rob Roberge’s LIAR. With a lifetime’s worth of memories wadded together and flung onto the page in a manic explosion of details and imagery, the reader gets to experience just what it’s like to live in the mind of Rob Roberge. As always his prose is breathtakingly smooth and the content for this debut memoir is not only brilliant, but also heartbreaking, funny, sad, and incredibly compelling. Roberge delivers an honest look at himself that many writer’s couldn’t achieve. LIAR maybe Roberge’s finest work to date, which if you look at his previous books is saying quite a lot.