I'll be completely honest. Yes, I do know who Stephen Fry is but it's not someone I actively watch. Yes, I've seen some stuff his been in, but I didn't watch it because of him but rather for other reasons. I'm not entirely sure why I brought a copy of "more fool me" but hey, I'm a sucker for biographies...clearly..

So, apparently this is book 3 of a biography series that Fry has written. Interesting...

I know I've been saying this a lot lately about biographies I've been reading BUT, this feels different to the other biography I've read in the past year. This one feels more like an essay, more like a student who got told to write a 2000+ word essay and it's due by an x date. The first 56 pages are a mix of rehasing his first two books, while adding so much detail, that it just reminds me of a student trying to find words to hit the word count. 

Look, I'll be honest..I started reading this book with just under 6hours sleep and about to start a 10 hour work day, so for the first 100 pages I was just glazing over. Like I said above, it reads as an essay, rather than a story of someone who felt like they had something important to say, like most biographies are. 

I understand that when a former drug addict wants to share their former life, they'll reveal positives and negatives, but page, after page, I was starting to get sick of reading about Fry's coke usage. I understand  its his biography and I have a choice to read it, but call me a bitch..cause I was over reading almost 100 or so pages about drugs. 

The last half of the book is just diary entries from the 90s and honestly, i skimmed over majority of it.

As much as I love biographies, sometimes releasing more than one is just a waste of time. 

Not the best of Fry’s memoirs as the first section does a lot of recapping and the last section is purely a reading of his diary entries with footnotes that explain who various names are. I had to speed up the playback at this point. Reflection on that time is brief.