Customer Reviews
You were so rooting for him to succeed and in every way he just really didn't. Although he was a great entertainer, his story was so tragic it was hard to read about.
Matthew Perry, your book changed my life. It also reaffirmed and reinforced my love for the most amazing journey of recovery that I, myself, have been on for the last fifteen years. I think you are such a beautiful and brilliant, brilliant soulful soul. I felt compelled to check out your book (and story) after I saw, again, another article about the doctors who sold you your ketamine. That afternoon, I recorded a journal entry about what I thought about your final days...Your book was full of incredible emotional nuggets!!! I especially loved how you said that you'd trade places, anytime, with any of the other characters in one particular part of your journey. That was so powerful to me. But, I wonder, now -- with the magical essence of YOU floating around and affecting so many lovely people here, if you feel the same way? In whatever realm you exist in. I think that your journey was perfectly designed for YOU and that even that particular passage you wrote on that page that I highlighted... had you had switched places or thought that thought, I and WE never would have read those words on that page...In short, I found every passage and every shared moment in your book to be part of an incredible three days spent reading all about your very, very rare and incredible quest. I think you are such a lucky and blessed human being to be able to go through all of those great arcs - those "peaks and valleys" a friend of mine calls them...... such that you would end up in your quiet pool... in, who cares, whatever state you were in at that point. It was a COSMIC CONVERGENCE of a moment for you. When all of the great spirits and gods watching over you were there to CELEBRATE YOU!!! This is, on my own wonderful journey, what I believe happens the moment that you transcend. Like this great darkness falls upon us and a curtain opens in several ways... and all around YOU come all of these amazing figures who have been watching and following your story to welcome you.I hope that the movie they played on the big screen for everyone who showed up that night for you was everything you thought it would be - I mean, how could it not be with your life. I LOVED your book so much!!!Thank you for sharing your life with us Matthew Perry. ❤️❤️❤️💫-Eriq
Matthew Perry played by favorite Friends character and at the time never realized what he was going through. As he said, he had it all so why would you expect all the drugs and heartbreak. This book was well written and gave great insight into his life and just how troubled he really was. A few years ago I wanted to believe he beat his addiction, but considering how he died and what was reported in the press I don't think he ever did.
It’s a little overwhelming in places especially because after watching Chandler Bing grow up on friends you’d hope the same for Matthew Perry. It’s an honest and authentic picture of addiction. The timeline is super wonky and sometimes hard to follow but even that seems to be authentic in the books approach to helping capture the essence of addiction and its cyclical affect on you and the rose around you.
I liked this book so much in written form that I bought an audio version as well to read it a second time. Matthew Perry is very open about his life and the difficulties he has dealt with his whole life. It is totally worth reading but it can be difficult to get through with the descriptions of his drug use. But I definitely recommend this book for those who can handle it.
