A review by libsbooknook
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

เผป๐ŸŽงแด€แดœแด…ษชแด ส™แดแดแด‹ ส€แด‡แด ษชแด‡แดกโ™ชเผบ

โ€œ๐‘ณ๐’Š๐’Œ๐’† ๐’‚ ๐’‡๐’“๐’Š๐’†๐’๐’…, ๐’Š๐’• (๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘๐‘œโ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘™) ๐’˜๐’‚๐’” ๐’•๐’‰๐’†๐’“๐’† ๐’‡๐’๐’“ ๐’Ž๐’†; ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐‘ฐ ๐’˜๐’‚๐’” ๐’‡๐’‚๐’Š๐’“๐’๐’š ๐’„๐’†๐’“๐’•๐’‚๐’Š๐’ ๐‘ฐ ๐’˜๐’๐’–๐’๐’… ๐’ˆ๐’ ๐’„๐’“๐’‚๐’›๐’š ๐’˜๐’Š๐’•๐’‰๐’๐’–๐’• ๐’Š๐’•.โ€œ 

๐Œ๐š๐ญ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ฐ ๐๐ž๐ซ๐ซ๐ฒ ๐š๐ค๐š ๐‚๐ก๐š๐ง๐๐ฅ๐ž๐ซ ๐๐ข๐ง๐  ๐จ๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ก๐ข๐ญ ๐ฌ๐ก๐จ๐ฐ ๐‘ญ๐’“๐’Š๐’†๐’๐’…๐’”, ๐ญ๐š๐ค๐ž๐ฌ ๐ฎ๐ฌ ๐›๐ž๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฌ๐œ๐ž๐ง๐ž๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฅ๐ข๐Ÿ๐ž.  ๐‡๐ข๐ฌ๐œ๐ก๐ข๐ฅ๐๐ก๐จ๐จ๐, ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ ๐ ๐ฅ๐ž ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐š๐๐๐ข๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง, ๐ซ๐ž๐ก๐š๐›, ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ค, ๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ๐š๐ง๐œ๐ž, ๐š๐ง๐ ๐œ๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐ญ๐ฅ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ ๐ž๐ซ๐ข๐ž๐ฌ. ๐“๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ฒ ๐จ๐Ÿ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ž. ๐‡๐ข๐ฌ ๐ก๐จ๐ง๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฒ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐œ๐จ๐ฆ๐ž๐๐ข๐œ ๐œ๐ก๐š๐ซ๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐š๐ค๐ž๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐š ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ซ๐ž๐š๐.

๐–๐จ๐ฐ. ๐‰๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ, ๐’˜๐’๐’˜, ๐’˜๐’๐’˜, ๐’˜๐’๐’˜. 
Going into this book, I knew Matthew Perry had a problem with alcohol. I did ๐ง๐จ๐ญ know, however that he had such an addiction to Opioids as well. That was tough to listen to. Being an enormous ๐น๐‘…๐ผ๐ธ๐‘๐ท๐‘†fan, like most of us are, the episodes hit different. Thinking back on them, knowing what I know now is absolutely heartbreaking. Yes, you can tell when hes on alcohol, or when hes on pills during those seasons. Now I'll say season 9 is my favorite knowing he was fully sober and did his best. 
There was some humor to his tragedy,  and I am so glad he shared his story with the world. Albeit, a bit repetitive towards the end, I looked at it as a recap of the entirety of his story; maybe that's what it was supposed to be anyways. Knowing what I know now, his book has opened my eyes to the world of addiction a little more & how it runs your life. 

It was definitely worth the listen, I didnโ€™t see it as him being an asshole, I see it for what it is, an addiction that heโ€™s been struggling with. He gives his apologies and makes it clear what was happening, not as an excuse but as a testament to what addiction really is. 

๐ŸŽงHis narration was a wonderful help with this book, (Itโ€™s better for me to listen to the author), and he sounded pretty great.
๐Ÿ™๐ŸปI'll keep you in my prayers Mr. Perry, your someone special is out there, and I'm happy you can help people like those that have helped you! 
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