While Choukri's first volume of autobiography, "For Bread Alone" (1973), has a simplistic, earthiness to it, this volume, published nearly 20 years later (1992) is written by a famous, educated, published man. It is not near as good. Although published in his lifetime, it often feels like a a gathering of notes by his literary executor.
Goodreads lists Paul Bowles as the translator.. He is not, it is Ed Emery. Bowles did translate the earlier volume, and that may have added to the quality of the book in English (there are some comments that Bowles took a few too many artistic liberties in his translation, and point to the fact that he did not know the classic Arabic that Choukri wrote in).
Disjointed, even within chapters, where at times he suddenly drops one story and goes on to another. Also, while he spends some time on the memories of the Spanish Civil War by old-timers who had fought in it, he does not spend any space on the times he himself visited Spain.
I am going on to the recently published "In Tangiers", which collects his pieces on T. Williams, Bowles and Jean Genet.

من اسوا الكتب التي قراتها
اقتنيته على استعجال فلم الاحظ موضوعه من الاساس
هو يعتبر الجزء الثاني للسيرة الذاتية "الخبز الحافي"
وبما انني لم اكمل قراءة الجزء الاول (لاحتوائه على الفاظ نابية لم اعتدها بالكتب)
فلم اتوقع ان يكون الجزء الثاني بنفس سوء الاول لاسيما ان هذا الكتاب يصور مرحلة متقدمة نسبيا في حياة الكتاب
لم افهم شيئا في العديد من الفصول
ولم استبين المغزى من بعض الكلمات
هنا رفعت الاقلام عن كتب محمد شكري

لم اتوقع انها تكون سيره ذاتيه
قدر يخليني الكاتب اعيش كل يوم بيومه في كل الاحداث و استرجاع الذكرايات وكل قصه رواها
ولكن للاسف بعدما فرغت منه عرفت انه الجزء الثاني من كتاب الخبز الحافي
روايه ممتازه مع نحفظي على الابتذال والهرج والمرج المحشوه به