It's a good book, once you manage to orient yourself to the book's style, which is certainly something of a novelty. Most of the time it reads more like a parody of a rock biography than anything else, and a good parody at that. Take for instance a moment in the very beginning of the book, when he says something like "From that moment on, table tennis was to play a large part in my life". It's quite hard to take something like that with a straight face, especially as the subject is never again mentioned in the rest of the book.

Then there's the constant lack of criticism of anything he's ever done and praise unending. I understand, and approve, of not being humble and all that, but if you feel you must start your self-praise by describing how clever you were at age three and continue from there, well...it's a little obvious. Likewise with the womanizing, the descriptions of which start from age six.

It was quite absurd reading his boasting how he had sex with 273 different women in the first three years of the group, then some time later suing his ex-wife for the custody of their child on the basis of her one affair. Also, the constant bitching about how poor they all were was not quite believable as it was lost in the noise of them buying huge castles and whatnot all the time.

Anyway, it contains information you're not likely to find anywhere else, and for that reason alone it's worth reading. A good background primer in preparation for my Stones concert next Wednesday :)