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[quote=Anonymous]I'm trying to get through the book on Audible during my commute. It's really bad - I've been very tempted to give up since the counter indicates I'm only halfway through it. But I hate quitting books halfway through so I'll probably persevere. But my God he is self-absorbed and full of hyperbole. Everything is so over-the-top -- like he or his ghost writer were aiming for the language of the tabloids. They don't leave, they flee. He doesn't have a headache, his head explodes. Learning to fly is a "Jedi mind trick." It's absurd. I do have sympathy for him or anyone who loses a parent at a young age. But many people face childhood tragedy. He seems so utterly ungrateful for the good things in his life, and the innumerable advantages that he has come by, through absolutely no effort of his own. He brings up his mother so frequently and in such weirdly inappropriate moments that it does seem pathological. Also his obsession with referring to himself as "Spare" throughout the book seems an entirely self-inflicted wound. He criticizes the media ruthlessly, as villains, enemies, but then shares the most intimate and unnecessary details of his own life and other people's lives - to sell a book? It is all so bizarre. He anthropomorphizes any sort of challenge - the challenge piloting was due to "hover monkeys", the challenges he faced with focus were due to "head squirrels." Not quite anthropomorphic but weird also was his description of his own anger as a recurring "red mist" that descends on him. He is overall a deeply troubled not-very-young man at this point, also weirdly lacking in perspective and gratitude. He says he hates his life as a royal, why would anyone want it? But he jets off to Africa with a girlfriend time and again, flies half way round the world to try to "clear his head" on the savanah, seems to spend his spare time at pubs drinking and goofing off with plans only of maybe being a ski instructor. In the real world, where people aren't royal and don't have millions of unearned wealth at their disposal, people with his sort of drive and inclinations don't live in mansions in Santa Barbara, they may become ski instructors, but they're not jetting on private planes around the world and living the way he evidently enjoys living. 2/10 stars. And to those who say he seems smarter or a better writer than they expect, I wager that's all the ghost writer. For example, despite using the famous Faulkner quote "The past is never dead. It isn't even past." as the intro to his book, he right away admits that he only found that quote on Brainyquote.com and had "no idea" who Faulkner was. [/quote]

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