Must Read!!! - Rated 
Wow what a book! I started reading this book on the recomendation of the Author! I was not disappointed! Even though when James first recommended it, I thought that I may not like it... How wrong could I be...
This is the best book I have read this year! It was funny! It had all the key elements a must read has to have!
Once you pick the book up then you just can't put it down! I found it very inticing to just read the next page and the one after that! I loved it!
Pick up your copy today! Believe me you neither will be disappointed in it!
Have to disagree - Rated 
This book is similar in style to "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" and "The Curious Incident of the Dog in The Night Time". All are dealing with mental issues and are written in first person narratives. This book differs in being autobiographical as opposed to a work of fiction. It is not as interesting, not as well written and not as funny as the others. This is one man's story so maybe I should be more forgiving but for enjoyment or education it just doesn't make great reading. At least it's short!
If you're after educational value, inspiration and entertainment, then buy another book! - Rated 
I have read a couple of excellent, factual and educational books on OCD by Jeffery Schwartz and Ian Osborn, and so I picked up "Man Interrupted" in the hope that it will shed more light on this condition from a the patient's personal prospective; and the fact the book was advertised as looking into OCD in a light hearted and comical fashion was all the more appealing due to the grim nature of this condition.
However, I have to say that I was very disappointed with the book. The educational value is almost minimal and most importantly, I felt that the author has failed in his attempt to produce a book that could be classified as "funny". Most of the jokes were cheesy and predictable, very much like the ones you would find in Adam Sandler's movies. Now, if you are a fan of Mr Sandler then you might want to give James Bailey a shot, otherwise I'd stay well clear.
In addition to the lack of comedy value, the majority of characters in the book tend to lack any depth; they are introduced, forgotten about, and then recalled again to be referenced when the author feels like having a hypocritical moan about their habits.
Although there were few exceptions to this, in general the main characters' negative attitude (to put it mildly) towards his fellow patients and counsellors made it difficult to empathise with his struggle during the journey he was making.
The topic and the idea behind this book have the makings of a potentially exceptional reading; it's a shame though that on this occasion the author's attempt fell short of achieving this.
For some it's unnervingly, but it's not so bizarre ;-) - Rated
Until last week, I didn't know the slightest thing about him, or about his book, until he went and introduced himself through MySpace, something that led to the inevitable reading of said book, and something that I'm really glad that I did. It's 222 pages of one of the most incredibly well written, fresh and original books that you're ever likely to read, a word of warning though, it really will make you question yourself, and exactly how pernickety you are. We all have an OCD, we may not realise it, or we do, and it's just insignificant, but we rarely externalises our OCD, are never forced to justify it, or explain it away, usually we're able to sufficiently hide it enough to function, but it wouldn't take much for everyone to collapse under the weight of it, and only a small percentage could ever do what James Bailey did, namely building himself back up. All of the patients in his book really do stand out too, because they're chillingly real, but then I suppose that's because they actually are, but he's managed to render them better than anyone else could have. It really is like reading the transcript of a Docu-Soap, and I'm not talking about an episode of "Cops", but an English one, because it's unapologetic, and gritty. What James Bailey has written is brutally honest, and I don't think that I've ever read that level of honestly, that level of shameless exposure; he made me feel like I lived it with him. Reading this book made me look at myself a little differently, maybe a little more clearly, but it also made me a friend in James Bailey, and that was well worth the cost of a good book ;-)
Compulsive reading - Rated
This is an excellent account of James Bailey's own battle with OCD. It also showed me that I was not alone in having to deal with what others may view as 'cranky' behaviour. I can vividly remember the need to tap my foot on the floor one hundred times until I could get up to go to the kitchen. What my father failed to understand was that hitting me over the head with his moccasin slipper would only make me lose count and have to start again. But the tales in James Bailey's book seem so familiar and I've found myself reading the same chapter over and over again, sometimes to see if I can do it using the exact same number of blinks as the last time but mostly just because it is so good. James Bailey also provides an insight into the real danger that OCD victims can face. I went through a period where whenever I stepped into the shower I'd immediately worry about having left the toaster switched on. Touching a cold toaster when dripping wet is OK. However every once in a while I would actually have left it switched on and over seventeen years or so that amounted to more than a few shocks. Like James Bailey, I now use the grill. Great book.
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