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reflective
medium-paced
3.0
If You Would Have Told Me by John Stamos
⭐️⭐️⭐️ (3/5)
Genre: Memoir
About 320 pages
I would venture to say almost everyone knows John Stamos. Most people know him as Uncle Jesse from Full House, but he also had longstanding roles on ER, General Hospital, and Broadway. If you would have told young John Stamos that he would become the household name he is today from massive TV roles and played the drums multiple times for his favorite band, The Beach Boys, he wouldn’t have believed it. The man has undeniable staying power, and his memoir takes us through his journey as a young California boy working in his dad’s diner to the star he is today.
I have mixed feelings about rating memoirs because it is hard to rate someone’s story. Therefore, when I rate them, it’s less about how good the story is but more so the quality of the book if that makes sense? John Stamos certainly doesn’t lack stories, and this book was full of ones I didn’t know despite growing up watching Full House. However, he never took us deep into the stories. It felt like we hit a lot of them but on a very surface level. I also had a very hard time following the timelines in this memoir as it wasn’t told chronologically, instead, the chapters focused on certain times in his life, shows he was on, people, etc. so it was hard to put together where in his career we were.
Favorite Quote: “Not everything that hurts is an emergency. Sometimes we need to test our pain threshold to see how well we heal.”
Content Warnings
Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Medical content, Death of parent, and Alcohol