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Feb 19, 2015jtinsf rated this title 1 out of 5 stars
This book is way, way too long and is in serious need of an editor. I was shocked to read in the acknowledgements that it was even longer before some poor soul helped Wilsey shorten it. I have to admit I was attracted to the book because of the promise of good dirt on San Francisco socialite Dede Wilsey. It did deliver on that, but most of the rest of the hundreds of pages could have been left in Sean Wilsey dairies. The book is about how Wilsey pulled himself together after his troubled teenaged years. Wilsey seems to currently have a somewhat successful career and be more successful at personal relationships. However, the reader never really gets of a feel of how Wilsey's change came about. There is no connection between the story of his life story and how that story brought about the change in him. Or perhaps it is there, but is lost in all the non-essential details the writer choose to include in the book. And oh, I have never read a memoir in which the last part the story of how the writer came to write the book that I am reading. I found that rather odd.