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The book is as entertaining as I hoped it would be. Funny, opinionated, full of revealing little details, etc. Unmistakably his voice though it was ghost-written.
True, it's not a comprehensive account of his life: not really an autobiography, as after the early years it soon becomes a rant which skips all over the place without explaining anything in depth: which is good! To use the cliché, it's as though he's talking to you (or shouting at you) in the pub (in an unusually good mood).
The only downside is a few naff stream-of-consciousness bits; but even that is very 'The Fall' in a way, the equivalent of the over-long experiment track which appears on a lot of their albums.
I went from Bend Sinister to The Unutterable (love it) and Country On The Click (love it). I don't like 90s dancey production, so I skipped the whole of their 90s output. Have I missed anything essential?
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