Helpful Score: 3
A great read about San Francisco society, dish, dish, dish.
Helpful Score: 2
I was very disappointed! It was boring.
Certainly an interesting memoir - a fascinating look into the world of the very wealthy. I wanted to be more sympathetic to the author, as the adults in his life really were awful to him as a child, but he comes across as whiny and not quite over every childhood slight.
I loved this book. Very well written. An interesting look into the life of the wealthy and the want-to-be-famous. One of the most honest looks at "family" you will read.
Helpful Score: 1
I'm not usually one to read a memoir, especially one of someone I am not familiar with, but every once in a while a description will struck my fancy and I'll take a stab at one. This one's setting was what intrigued me, San Francisco being the writer's home and place between boarding schools to which he returns to reek havoc upon with his friends stealing motorized scooters and skateboarding down its famous steep hills. This is a story of a boy with some very eccentric parents and how he finagles his way through their divorces and fleeting passions. I had a difficult time getting into this book at first, I probably could have finished it quicker, but once engrossed I couldn't put it down. The things that happen, it almost makes the reader wonder if some of it's made up, but you don't really care if it is because it's just so interesting. His mom wrote a book about the same experiences, I'm curious to see how that one compares.
