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3.81 AVERAGE
3.81 AVERAGE
Story wasn't written well. Major victim mindset
Content Warnings
Graphic: Addiction, Abandonment
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
reflective
sad
fast-paced
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lighthearted
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This book was a 5/5 for me! I couldn’t put it down
“My name is Matthew Perry but you may know me by another name. My friends call me matty, and I should be dead”
Instant chills reading this after Matthew Perry passed. Hearing about his struggles and triumphs made an already beloved human that much more special. My heart shattered hearing how he wanted to live out the rest of his life with a wife, children, and doing things to make his parents proud (specifically his mother).
Matthew wrote this book to give other addicts or recovering addicts a safe space to relate some of the experiences this disease brings on. However I would say some of the things written could trigger desire to use again so please please please put the book down when needed!
I highly recommend this book🖤
“My name is Matthew Perry but you may know me by another name. My friends call me matty, and I should be dead”
Instant chills reading this after Matthew Perry passed. Hearing about his struggles and triumphs made an already beloved human that much more special. My heart shattered hearing how he wanted to live out the rest of his life with a wife, children, and doing things to make his parents proud (specifically his mother).
Matthew wrote this book to give other addicts or recovering addicts a safe space to relate some of the experiences this disease brings on. However I would say some of the things written could trigger desire to use again so please please please put the book down when needed!
I highly recommend this book🖤
Content Warnings
Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Abandonment, Alcohol
medium-paced
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
sad
I don’t know if it’s my obsessive love for friends or my love for Matthew Perry. But this was so moving. I knew he struggled but to get a completely honest and open view into all of it, was heartbreaking. Especially with his passing. I’m so glad I decided to listen to the audio because I think it made it so much more enjoyable and heartwarming. This is one of my top reads of the year. It was exactly what you would expect from Matthew Perry. It was funny at time then serious. I was crying by the end of it. My favorite quote from the book and yes it’s a long one.
“As for me, I would trade places with each and every one of my friends—Pressman, Bierko, any of them—because none of them had the big terrible thing to deal with. None of them had battled their entire lives with a brain that was built to kill them. I would give it all up to not have that. No one believes this, but it’s true. My life is no longer on fire, though. Dare I say it throughout all this turmoil. I have grown up. I am more real, more genuine. I don’t need to leave the people in a room screaming in laughter. I just need to stand up straight and leave the room. And hopefully not walk directly into the closet. It’s a calmer me now. A more genuine me. A more capable me. Sure, there is a chance that if I want a good role in a movie, I’d have to write it now. But I can do that, too. I am enough. I am more than enough. And I don’t need to put on a show anymore. I have made my mark. Now it’s time to sit back and enjoy it. And find true love. And a real life. Not one that is run on fear. I am me. And that should be enough, it always has been enough. I was the one who didn’t get that. And now I do. I’m an actor, I’m a writer. I’m a person. And a good one at that. I want good things for myself, and others, and I can continue to work for these things. There is a reason I’m still here. And figuring out why is the task that has been put in front of me.”
RIP Matty ❤️
“As for me, I would trade places with each and every one of my friends—Pressman, Bierko, any of them—because none of them had the big terrible thing to deal with. None of them had battled their entire lives with a brain that was built to kill them. I would give it all up to not have that. No one believes this, but it’s true. My life is no longer on fire, though. Dare I say it throughout all this turmoil. I have grown up. I am more real, more genuine. I don’t need to leave the people in a room screaming in laughter. I just need to stand up straight and leave the room. And hopefully not walk directly into the closet. It’s a calmer me now. A more genuine me. A more capable me. Sure, there is a chance that if I want a good role in a movie, I’d have to write it now. But I can do that, too. I am enough. I am more than enough. And I don’t need to put on a show anymore. I have made my mark. Now it’s time to sit back and enjoy it. And find true love. And a real life. Not one that is run on fear. I am me. And that should be enough, it always has been enough. I was the one who didn’t get that. And now I do. I’m an actor, I’m a writer. I’m a person. And a good one at that. I want good things for myself, and others, and I can continue to work for these things. There is a reason I’m still here. And figuring out why is the task that has been put in front of me.”
RIP Matty ❤️
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