Memoirs are always difficult to rate bc you shouldn't rate their lives since, well, it's their life.  However, with a fiction book, one would definitely rate the characters as well as the other facets of the book.

With that being said, this book was very okay.  It was narrated by Matthew Perry (and was clearly meant to be an audiobook and not just the reading of the physical book) but I had to speed it to 1.25x bc at "normal" speed, it sounded like he had a stroke.  It was like he had cotton in his mouth that he was trying to talk around.  This actually makes sense with the insane amount of drugs, alcohol, and nicotine that he has put in his body.

The book as it is written starts off fairly linear, veering appropriately.  There are periods of "interlude" which kinda make no sense bc they are just another part of the story, but this particular story is told in periodic bursts.  The second half of the book can be hard to follow at times.  I thought it was staying linear like the first half, but then he would seem to circle back around to something that had happened 30 years prior.  

His actual story was absolutely heartbreaking.  He admits over and over that he has no one to blame for his addictions but himself.  It is quite eerie that at the very beginning he writes, "Hi, my name is Matthew, although you may know me by another name. My friends call me Matty. And I should be dead." After reading this, I have no doubt that his untimely death was a result of 40 years of punishment he put his body through.  He was a womanizer, afraid of commitment, and therefore alone.  He doesn't spend too much time talking about his time on Friends, only how messed up his life was during that period. 

This book is a confession of transgressions and glimmers of hope. A story of addiction to redemption and the messiness in between.  I just wished that the story itself could have been more consistent.