Or: How Howard Rewrites HistoryFirst of all, I'm still a huge fan. I still enjoy the show for what it is, and it's fine. I'm okay with his new format, but I do wish he would quit making up lies about his history. Don't apologize for it Howard! The fact that he is apologizing for it so much and rewriting history here in this book seems like this is an attempt to get ahead of any old tapes that might appear where there was VERY racist talk back in 1990-1991 in particular, including him in black face multiple times on the channel 9 show. But then comes this.. he says that the Wilmer Valderrama led to nothing, that it "wasn't good radio". Are you kidding me? Is this now also going to be edited out of show history? C'mon Howard.. you can't actually believe that.This book makes it seem like he went to satellite and all was changed when really that only started about 5 or 6 years ago. Again, I'm still a huge fan, but Howard ignores the fact that people are listening and it's disappointing when he goes and contradicts himself. I mean, he said the book was interviews, but I definitely expected more than 17 pages of the autobiographical part. The interviews... they're alright. This book would be great on a plane, but it's kind of a sad experience when you lie down for bed and you have hundreds of pages of material you've heard before, but now it's edited in such a way that Howard has picked parts that make him a hero or shine a light on him in the best way possible. This is truly Howard seeking acceptance from everyone who never accepted him before. It betrays the people who love him, not just because it comes across as try-hard, but it's also very disingenuous and alters well-known history.The promotion leading to the tour had him doing The Name Game song to show he is PG.. the lady on the View called him out on using racial slurs back in the 90's and he blamed that on Daniel Carver. Where are the sessions with Gilbert where Gilbert would do the Amos and Andy style voices throughout the show? Knowing the way the show has been will alter your ability to enjoy the book.Also, those 17 pages of new material is old material. Almost all of it is stuff he talks about daily or weekly. To be fair, he did say (after the book came out) that the fans should not buy the book. WHAT?? That seems like an awful thing to say. "Hey I know you guys made me what I am today, and I know you even paid for premium radio, and I appreciate it, sure, but I'm going to write my long-awaited next book for those that never gave a crap about me". So lame.The actual writing is only okay, but Howard works best when free flowing his thoughts out of his mouth, not when he attempts to use a book format to manipulate the reader with carefully edited and red-edited sentences. Also, the book has "blurbs" in it, sentences chosen from that page but made large and at the corners of the pages. Why? Why am I going to read those when they are on that page? I'd either be reading ahead on something I'm about 30 seconds from reading on my own, or I'm done with the page and I'm going to for some reason go back and read that part again?? Is it for the person at the bookstore who flips through it so they can see something interesting and it will help them decide to buy it?? That's what it is, isn't it? That's just rude. Get your advertising out of the main book I bought!Sorry Howard, but you have to know that this is a big let down to the core of your audience, even someone like myself who doesn't think of you as "Hollywood" now or gets upset with the negative way the so-called fans act online. I'm one of the biggest fans of yours still, but this is why I can only give you one star for how disappointing the book turned out to be.