I really enjoyed Matthew Perry's autobiography because I felt it was indirectly and unintentionally giving an idea of his psyche.
I tried reading other autobiographies but they have editors and I haven't found one that's as interesting. Does anyone have any recommendations for autobiographies like this? Where it's interesting but not exactly for the reasons the author intended. Probably conventionally considered a badly written book?
by Outside_Bar455
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Here’s a twist on an autobiography for you … Michael Palin (of Monty Python fame) has been publishing edited versions of his diaries in several volumes. They are fascinating. Of course it’s autobiographical but super interesting, funny, sad and everything else! Try it out
*The Psychopath Inside: A Neuroscientist’s Personal Journey into the Dark Side of the Brain* by James Fallon is like that. He was a neuroscientist who discovered he’s a psychopath, but because he had a stable childhood and a good life in general he didn’t become a criminal
At first it’s interesting to read, it come across as insightful and informed. But then you start noticing that he skips things, glosses over other things and as a reader you have lots of questions that go unanswered. You are left with the impression that maybe his personal relationships weren’t as great as he portrayed them in the book
It’s probably terribly dated now, but an interesting window on the ’90s – I really enjoyed *Private Parts* by Howard Stern.
Spare by Prince Harry
I enjoyed it more than I was expecting to and was left with the thought, “This is why princes got locked in towers in the olden days.” I’m pretty sure he didn’t intend to convey that.