I really don't know how to review this. I don't think I can rate it. Like I found it interesting to listen to, but it felt more like watching a car crash as you drive past than genuinely enjoying it. Matthew Perry seems like an incredibly bitter man. 

Honestly, so much of this felt like he was still lying to himself. Like he talks about how desperate he was for fame in his youth and the struggle in realizing fame doesn't solve your problems, but he still seemed so obsessed with fame. He name dropped so many people in this book. I don't even mean like people he worked with. I've read a number of celebrity memoirs and they're obviously going to talk about other famous people. It was more the way he name dropped people, like bringing up six different times that he made out with Gwen Stefani once. There's no context to that story, he just really wanted everyone to know he made out with Gwen Stefani. It was actually really sad.

And I never got a feel for anyone else's personality in this book. It was entirely centered on Perry. Again, I read a lot of memoirs, I know they are by definition self involved, but usually you get to know the people close to the author. Their relationships do as much to tell the story as their own thoughts. He clearly has had a lot of people in his life, but I never got a feel for anyone else's personality or thoughts. He dated Julia Roberts and spent a whole long section talking about their relationship, and never said a single thing about her as a person except that she was smart. He spent significantly more time talking about the movies she did.

He also told a lot of really awkward stories. He kept going on about stuff like how Matt LeBlanc got most improved on Friends. Everyone else was great from the beginning, but LeBlanc got most improved. Congrats dude. It wasn't mean so much as just kind of uncomfortable. Like we all have thoughts like that, my dude, but we don't all feel the need to share them. He had a lot of stories and comments like that. I think they were meant to be funny? But it came across as incredibly cringe to me.

I don't know. I definitely don't regret reading this, but it was really sad.