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Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
by Matthew Perry
dark
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
This was the most heartbreaking, tragic memoir I have read, especially given Perry's recent untimely death. It did make me understand the disease of addiction more than I ever have before. Knowing that Perry didn't want to die (he states this repeatedly), and that he loved and wanted kids makes me just ache for the happy ever after he never had.
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By the end of the book, at age 52, Perry had finally gotten his life together and kicked all his addictions. He had so little time to enjoy it. I really hope that his death was not the result of a final relapse.
<Spoiler>
By the end of the book, at age 52, Perry had finally gotten his life together and kicked all his addictions. He had so little time to enjoy it. I really hope that his death was not the result of a final relapse.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Alcohol
Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Excrement, Medical content, Abandonment