Matthew Perry Was No Chandler Bing

I am a little over halfway through Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing, a memoir by Matthew Perry, a.k.a. Chandler Bing. I was motivated to read it after his recent death since I had become a fan of "Friends" reruns and got to like his character best of all. But this book has made me a whole lot less sad that he died. What a selfish twit he was! 

At age 24, armed with fabulous looks and good fortune, he won the role of Chandler and starred in a top-rated sitcom for ten years that paid him a million dollars an episode. Plus, his girlfriend was Julia Roberts when she was the "it" girl, but boo hoo, he couldn't enjoy it all because he had a hole in his heart that he could only fill with alcohol.

Stories of how he got to be selfish, and an asshole, and a drunken selfish asshole, and examples thereof, are the meat and potatoes of the book. Eventually you will get really, really full and decide you've had enough.