Rest in Peace Matthew Perry

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Yes, this is another book review. I don't think I need to tell you what the story is about; everyone knows Matthew Perry. If you don't, what rock have you been living under? This book cannot be rated. As I said before, how can one rate a person's personal story? I can rate the writing, or the readability. Ever since I read this book I've been watching a lot of Friends/Matthew Perry YouTube videos. I am surprised to see that I didn't really watch Friends. I don't remember most of the scenes that I have been seeing. A year ago, for my birthday, my sister gave me a book store gift card. I chose to buy this book with it. And then I put it on the shelf. As soon as his passing was announced, I decided it was time to read this book. Especially when initial suspicions were that he died of an overdose. Matty had a very hard start in his life. He is a Canadian and I remember his mother being a newscaster on Canadian television. I had no idea she worked for our then Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. But before that she married Matty's dad. They were very young. She was too young to be a mother and had to move back in with her parents when the marriage broke down. The result was what he called himself as an "unaccompanied minor". An unaccompanied minor is what they label children travelling by themselves, particularly on a plane. And since his father moved to California this was how he visited him. But it wasn't just the travel. Matty considered himself an unaccompanied minor his entire life. Reading people's memoirs are best "listened to" through audio books, but I think it would be very hard to hear him talk about the many, many relapses of addictions to drugs and alcohol. Just reading about it was very heartbreaking (and frustrating... you just want to shake him and say "Why????") I think I would be in tears if I heard him read the story. The story is a very enlightening read into the life of Matthew Perry, into the life of an actor, into the life of a success television actor, into the life of an addict... a sometimes not functioning addict, most mostly a functioning addict. Matthew Perry's life is such a sad, painful story. Read it if this stuff is not triggering for you.