I have read many Hollywood memoirs and thought I would really like this one since I love Carl Reiner's work and knew he was considered to be a nice guy among my show biz friends. It was fine, but I found it to be too, well, anecdotal. Just brief vignettes of people he had known and things he had done, much of it involving personal rather than show-biz stuff. I am sad to say I was just a bit disappointed - it didn't really hold my interest. I think he wrote a full autobiography about the period when he did the Dick Van Dyke Show that I remember absolutely loving, but it's a long-ago memory and I'm not sure what it was called. This one, alas, only so-so. On the other hand, my husband, who was a writer in Hollywood, liked it much better than I, since he could relate directly to some stories and personalities. This surprised me since he's not much of a reader. I just found it unfocused and just not the best of its genre, for a man who is such a superb comedy writer.
If you like biographies and remember this generation of tv and movie stars from your childhood I think you will enjoy this book.
