I don’t know much about Ryan O’Neal. Honestly, before reading this book I only knew that he was an actor, had dated Farrah Fawcett, and had really messed up kids. That was it. So, when I began reading his memoir on his life with Farrah, I had some catching up to do.

O’Neal’s book starts off running. No real introduction, like most memoirs, into his life and how he became an actor, or even about his past two marriages. This memoir really is, simply put, this life with Farrah. How they met, how he instantly fell for her. Her divorce from Lee Majors, and how he loved showing her off to the people he knew, and the difficulties with Tatum and Griffin, two of his children.

The way that O’Neal describes their relationship, especially the beginning of their affair, is somewhat tawdry. While proclaiming that his is an extremely private person, he gives more detail in some aspects than was necessary. I mean, really? But, I suppose it is his story, and the this is the way he tells it. It’s almost like sitting with “one of the guys” and he’s telling a younger man the story of “the one that got away” over scotch in a dark corner of a private club. Crass at times, but indeed genuine.

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