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Dear Reader, and or anyone else that could possible conceive to read this random blog about a random book,

I found the book King of the Mild Frontier to be one of the most interesting books that I have ever read in my entire life. It is a mixture of an autobiography and a book filled with so many short stories it could blow you mind off. Each chapter in the book King of the Mild Frontier is a different time period in his life. The time periods seem random. We will tell a story about having to carry olives in his butt, and then he will quote that segment of his book later in the book even though the spot that he uses the quote may actually be a time period before the olive scene. The book has the big problem of anger management. He tells all of his stories as though he is trying to teach his reader not to make the same mistakes he made. He compares a lot of his short stories or chapters into a lessen that he teaches in his therapy. He has grown up with one of the worst tempers a little boy could possibly have. When he was in a race and trying to impress a girl, he never gave up. When the announcer told him that he needed to get off the track so they could start the next race, he raised his hand with his middle finger extended, flicked off the announcer and told him to shut up while calling him a big fat shitburger (King of the Mild Frontier Page 9). A chapter that closely followed this was one of the chapters where the entire story was about teaching a child abuser to stop what he is doing. He asks what he does to his children that the government has classified under child abuse. When he tells him the he puts them in a corner and won’t let them out until they can tell him why they are here and tell it to him backwards. Chris hears this and he can only think of one way to stop him, or maybe he just found this way to be what he thought to be the most successful way. He tells the man to get up and go stand in the corner. When he tries to resist, he tells the man that he has all the time in the world and can go to court and tell the judge that this man was not listening to his counselor and he would never see his children again and would spend time in jail. Finally the man gets up. Chris realizes why the children would get scared of him. He is much bigger than any man that Chris has ever seen. He knows that if he pushes this guy to far that he will forget about the fact that his counselor has the power to throw him in jail, get up and pound Chris into the ground. He tells the man to sit down in the corner. When he does so Chris tells him that he can leave the corner when he can tell him what he did wrong and say in backwards. Eventually the man starts to clench his fist and Chris lets him return so that he may walk out of this room alive. When they get back he explains to the man the reason that this was done. He explains that this was not only an exercise that would show him exactly what it feels like to do this to his children, but also to put him in a situation that might be the only thing that he is scared of. By doing this to him in front of other people he becomes embarrassed and makes him mad. He was able to control his rage and not lash out which also show Chris and himself that he is making progress with his anger in a much less painful way than Crutch himself. Crutch’s temper was delt with in a much more painful way. When he was young he would ply up into the air and fling his legs out from under him. He would land so hard on the floor that his parents were afraid that he would hurt himself. They called the doctor and asked what they should do. He told them that they should roll and alphabet block underneithe him when he was falling. They did this and as soon as Crutch was done sobbing and for the rest of his life, never again did he ever try to take his own personal anger out in the same way as that. He came up with some other interesting ways that were all delt with in the same type of manner but they could never cure him of his intense rage that cursed him when he got mad.