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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I read a lot of memoirs and biographies (my favorite genre) and I was really excited about this one after learning it was the same ghostwriter who wrote Andre Agassi’s memoir.  Some of my takeaways:

The opening scene with Harry, his father, and William was a bit cringe, but the book gets much better from there.  I guess what bothers me is how Harry often approaches his brother so openly and then gets treated with derision time after time, but comes back for more.  When he knocked on William’s door to introduce Meghan, I knew that wouldn’t go well at all and I was embarrassed  for him.  William was so dismissive and standoffish to his little brother wanting to share and be open about his life and have a real connection with the people in his family.

The parts about flying an Apache helicopter were fascinating to me and that’s why I read memoirs - the varied life experiences people have and you never know what information is going to pop up.  Same with all of the travel adventures and discovering a new way of seeing the world through his time spent in Africa.

It’s a great memoir - insightful, touching, honest - deals with childhood memories, grief, relationships, work, travel.  I believe the book has been slandered in the press so much because they don’t want people to read it and come away with a different perspective than the media has carefully curated.[/quote]

I agree with all of this, except that I think clearly people don’t believe the Palace spin because it has become a huge bestseller.

I hope he writes a sequel. [/quote]

I am very close to getting this book from the library so I have not read it yet.  But since I am so close, obviously, I have been interested for a while.  But I will confess that I was completely put off by the frostbite/Elizabeth Arden disclosure.  I assume it's better contextualized in the book and not utterly oedipal and TMI?

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If you heard the description of that bit in his interview with Colbert, you’ve heard it all, and Colbert humorously took it a bit farther than Harry did in the book. It IS Oedipal and a bit TMI, but, for me, it read more as goofy-jock-has-an-adventure with unanticipated and extremely inconvenient consequences, rather than as something salacious. And I giggled at learning a new word.   I think an editor wanted a funny story to balance out quite a lot of content that’s far from funny.  DP

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It really was just an anecdotal story that was humorous. That's all. Stop reading the  comments of people who are twisting it up into something else.  It was far more innocuous thar Charles' tampon comment. [/quote]

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