#AskSwell Should I Read Spare by Prince Harry
Hello. I have a reading list I maintain on Amazon and periodically I review it and either buy a book from it or remove it from the list. I added a spare to that list when it came out and was in the news everywhere, but since then it seems to have fallen off a bit from the cultural consciousness, if you will. And so I was not sure if it's worth investing the time and effort to read it
Ruth Steinberg
@gardening · 1:03
It's the story of how a prince wants to live a normal life, affected by too many people taking over his world, and nobody hearing him or listening to him. And that, as far as I'm concerned, pertains to a lot of every example, a lot of different kinds of examples. But this specific book talks about his childhood in Africa. It talks about his experience in the war and just being a normal person, trying to have a normal relationship and be a normal father
And I did find part of the book frustrating because it was very much autopilot. But then when he met Megan, then things began to shift. And yeah, I think if you take it at face value, I don't know, it depends on how you listen to it, how you read it. But I found it really eye opening
It was a pretty good account. He was very forthcoming and candid and overall, I think pretty honest, although you could tell he's still injured by what happened. I think there was a part of the book, and I think Christine mentioned it too, when he got into his military service. I think maybe it was just a couple of chapters, but it was really drawn out for me. But I know some people might be into that, like the particulars of his military service
Ruth Steinberg
@gardening · 1:14
You. Thank you for that. I actually really enjoyed that book myself. I like that you were talking about the Narcissism of the royal family. I mean, I've been a follower of the royal family for forever and I do never think of it in terms of the narcissism of the family, but of course it is, and as are all celebrities