I wonder if anyone else writes their memoirs with cliffhangers?

The previous volume ended with Stephen Fry's introduction to a mysterious white powder called "cocaine", and this book picks up from there.

As usual he seems brutally honest about himself and his fifteen year addiction. This isn't so much about his drug use as it is about the kind of life he led while addicted. On numerous occasions he explains to the reader (or listener) that he doesn't want it to sound like he's encouraging anyone to try the stuff, quite the opposite. He just wants people to be aware that he is a statistical anomaly in that he managed to stay addicted for so long without any major consequences to his health.

This volume is written in a more haphazard way. It's not very chronological. It still covers a period in his life from his rise to fame in the 1980s to the mid 1990s, but he moves from topic to topic in a refreshing way. I quite enjoyed his earlier volumes but there's nothing wrong with changing the format.

The last part of the book are diary entries from about a month in his life in 1993, which show what kind of person he was at the time and how he's changed.

The one thing I love about this books is his friendship with Hugh Laurie and the love he still has for him, it's very sweet.

Since the book stops around 1994 I'm hoping he's got another three or four volumes up his sleeve.