The Man Who Couldn't Eat

from ChristineEllei

As a self-professed "foodie" struggling with managing what, and how much, goes into my mouth the title alone made this book irresistible. Not being able to eat is a concept that I find incomprehensible. Mr. Reiner's narrative made me understand, with gritty clarity, what it must be like not to be...

from agnesmack

The Man Who Couldn't Eat is the story of Jon Reiner, a man living with Chron's Disease. Complications from this disease lead to several months of Mr. Reiner not being able to eat or drink, and to the necessity that all nutrients be pumped directly into his blood stream. As you might imagine, he b...

from bookworm_naida

The Man Who Couldn't Eat is Jon Reiner's candid memoir about living with Crohn's disease. Jon, like most of us, loves food. Yet as he lives with this illness, his life is changed in many ways and the wrong foods can be his body's worst enemy. Amazingly Jon has gone several months without food or ...

from liz.mabry

I wanted to read it, but I couldn't get past the first ten pages. The writing itself is much too stream of consciousness for my taste, and, as other reviewers have mentioned, the author just whines, whines, whines. I couldn't bring myself to pick it up a second time, much less even attempt to fin...