Fantastic

I started listening to O&A the first day they started on XM having heard their name before but having never heard of them, but instantly became a huge fan and went many many years without missing a show. I've followed Anthony to Compound Media from day 1 as well. So with that said going into this book I was wonder if it would just be a rehash of the stories I've heard before and if I'd get bored or not. Well, many of the stories, except some details about the last few years, was stuff I've mostly heard before - but there are some new tidbits I haven't heard before. However Anthony is so incredibly entertaining I listen again knowing the outcome, and I'm completely enthralled. The book flew by, in fact my only wish about the book is that it was much much longer and had more detail, but I also understand the dullards out there can't listen to anything for more than 6-8 hours so you have to shorten these things up for them. But saying you wish something was longer because you enjoyed it so much, that's not a bad thing. As for Anthony I was glad to see this really wasn't a total Opie bash. I know many of the keyboard warriors out there hate Opie, and I completely understand why Anthony and him had their falling out, but I'm also glad that Opie got what I thought was very fair treatment. Anthony doesn't go soft on Opie by any means, but it's just fair, in that he says what Opie did well and how he did have a really important job on the show, even if Opie never was comfortable with it and let the pests get to him. Anthony himself reads the book and thankfully it's not a straight reading of the book, Anthony throws in some stuff here and there, does impressions (I swear you'd think they was the real people), they leave in some laughs when it makes sense, etc. I have nearly 1000 audiobooks at this point, and as far as an author reading his own book, I'd say this is probably at the top of the list. Production value was fine, sometimes they'd hard cut Anthony laughing or do a chapter pause in a way that you think the app crashed or something, but for the most part it was fine, but didn't really take away from the reading. Overall I really enjoyed the book, easily a 5-star effort, and for a first book it's really well done.