MEMOIR

The Book of Sheen: A Memoir

Charlie Sheen

Simon and Schuster, $49.99

In his 359-page memoir, Charlie Sheen appears to be sincere in his public apology for his wicked, wicked ways – the drugs, the booze, the random womanising, the wildly erratic behaviour. However, he also comes across as totally preoccupied with himself, much more concerned with what he’d been doing to Charlie than how it had been – and continues to be – affecting others. And it’s also never clear to whom exactly he’s apologising, even if he writes of his family near the end of the book that “they deserved so much better”.

The same mixed feelings are provoked by aka Charlie Sheen , the two-part, three-and-a-bit hour Netflix documentary that surveys the same terrain, more or less. It just happened to be releas

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