Mike's Reviews > The Chris Farley Show: A Biography in Three Acts

I'm not typically into biographies or memoirs much, but this one intrigued me, particularly after EW and People magazines gave it extremely good reviews.

Turns out they were right.

It's like Titanic, in that you know what happens in the end. But the build-up is absolutely fascinating, tragic, and devastating.

The Chris Farley Show is presented in three acts of Farley's life. Farley's brother interviewed what must have been nearly 100 people who were close to Chris during his life and put those interviews in the book, uncensored. So you get stories about heavy drug use, alcoholism, overeating, and prostitutes, to name a few.

Reading about the things that Farley went through, and how no one was able to stop him or help him, was haunting. I didn't know - and it seems like no fan did - what he and his family and friends went through in his last few years. It was as unputdownable as a book can be; I read it in about 4 or 5 days.