Michaela C

I kept reading hoping it would get better, but this reads like the author is a con artist and a bad father. It has so many good reviews so I held on as long as I could but I couldn’t finish it. I think the idea that staying determined and using burning desire to achieve your goals is great. I feel it could have been presented better though, instead of taking all the credit of his deaf sons success after not providing him deaf education or teaching him sign language. Reading between the lines, it really sounds as if his son was taught being deaf was a huge flaw he had to change. The author even talks about being invited by his son to share in his success of starting a class for deaf mutes to teach them to speak with hearing aids and says he went in hoping it wasn’t a waste of time. Who goes into something very important to their child with that attitude? Maybe the book gets better but I couldn’t finish the 2nd chapter without constantly rolling my eyes and feeling bad for his son. Likely a product of its time since it was written in the 1930s.