Content tagged with "friends"

Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing: A Memoir
Book Review
December 25, 2022
589

Matthew Perry is lucky to be alive. In this book, he recounts his story of addiction, from alcohol as a teenager, through to pills as an adult. As the book starts, he’s in rehab, in great pain. Opiates cause constipation, and he’s so constipated that his bowel ruptures. He almost dies. He spends…

Generation Friends: An Inside Look at the Show That Defined a Television Era
Book Review
September 20, 2019
164

The definitive history of Friends, from the spark of and idea, all the way through the current day and the lingering fandom. I read “I’ll Be There For You” last year, but I remember that book as being quite strongly about the social justice aspects of the show. This book touches on some of those…

I’ll Be There for You: The One about Friends
Deane’s Library
Book Review
November 9, 2018
139

A lovely look back at my favorite TV show. It’s a comprehensive history of before it started, it’s entire run, and what’s happened since. It makes the point that Friends is about a period of time in every adult’s life, and how the heady uncertainty of that time in our lives makes this emotional…