Generally, in porn, there's gonzo (straight up sex) and feature films (think glamour/erotica with a script so that means everything else that has anything more than just sex). I would say this book falls under gonzo for the reason that it's just straight up I'm-a-porn-star-and-this-is-what-I-do (which we already know). There's a lot of "scenes" of her describing what she does and how she feels during her porn shoots as well. It's pretty entertaining and I can't help chuckling at how corny and scripted a guy (who'd pay 5k USD to be with her for half an hour) could be about his fantasies, but I guess that's how it really is.
I half-knew what to expect from this because a friend already read it ahead of me and had already told me what he thought of it but I'm still a little disappointed. I'm not well-versed with autobiographies (having read only 2 or 3 before this) but I was expecting it to be, well, an autobiography. Turns out it is and it isn't.
The whole book is a journal, bits and pieces of things (with no order whatsoever) the author felt like talking about in a very conversational tone (too conversational they managed to say this other porn star is also a NY native over and over like "hey I'm just talking and I can't edit what already came out of my mouth"). Overall, it's a loop between how she loves sex and how she's in love with the porn industry with a spattering of her drug dependency, abortion, swinging, justifying being in a relationship with a guy who everyone thinks/knows to be gay etc. here and there, and in that way, it's a memoir. A lot of times, though, you'd also feel that she's writing "in character" so it may not be all ... real. In the end, I decided this is something you would purchase for the same reason that you would want to watch her in one of her porn movies except, here, you'd have to use your imagination more.
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