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This reads like a very detailed diary. The author seems very inexperienced and overloads the narrative with insignificant minutiae. I'm stopping reading after 65 pages.

By no means am I a prude by any measure, but this book is too full of graphic, raunchy lesbian sex scenes. I skipped half of one chapter only to find another shortly afterwards. If I wanted dime store trashy sex stories I'd buy that kind of book. I stopped reading two-thirds of the way through, 95 pages remained.

I can think of very few positives about this book. It goes into minute detail of who recorded what. It's lacks interesting stories about the band, its title is deceptive because the author was never "with" UFO. I couldn’t read even the entire chapter about my favorite UFO album because it was so dull. As an author with far more interesting stories to share, I am left scratching my head at Popoff's success.

I’m perplexed by the absurd manner in which the author jumps between verb tenses throughout the book. It’s not uncommon to find past, future and present tenses in the same paragraph. This is all history. It would’ve been completely logical to narrate it as such. And the copious mentions of what Madoff said in his, "first interview from jail", or however she states it, I just don’t understand.

On page 138 I’ve just seen the fourth instance where the word "brought" is used instead of "bought". Strange and annoying. Is this an English thing? Single engine Cessnas are not brought for $50,000, they are BOUGHT for $50,000. Really great book, bizarre quirk.

This book sucks. I’m abandoning it after reading 40%.

This book has far too many exclamation points! Every page has at least three! I’ve written a book and I learned very early on that too many exclamation points look ridiculous! Why didn’t any editor have the presence of mind to remove most of them! (Exclamation points added as sarcasm!)

I don’t need self-help tips from Paul Stanley. I gave up after part of the "my children are my world" chapter. Still hope to read his read autobiography at some point.

Also annoying is Greenfield’s repeated use of the phrasal verb “give in to” as “giving into” which grammatically makes no sense.

I’ve just read the part where Ahmet is pursuing Mica, a married woman who was living in Canada. They had an affair in New York and then she returned to her husband and her farm. Ahmet followed her there and "adored" her husband. Next he’s proposing and she’s accepting, with absolutely no reference to the husband. Sorry, but I find this infuriating. Talk about missing major details! Come on Mr. Greenfield, wtf?

This book is WAY TOO LONG. I rarely abandon books and won’t do it this time, but man, it’s hard to continue. Talk about unimportant, trivial details! This book is 75% just that. It seems EC wrote this for himself, it’s like a diary full of information only relevant to the writer. 250 pages left of what’s probably the longest autobiography I’ve read, and I’ve read 5-6 dozen. I wish some of the ink HAD disappeared.

Why in the world would a housekeeper "worry" about losing her job after her employer died?! Nothing could be more obvious, what a dumb premise.

The first story was incredibly long and full of weird old English words. The ending did not justify the reading. So far the other stories are much better.