Why, yes, this book does detail Franco’s first — and second — sexual experiences. How’d you guess?
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At the Comedy Central Roast this past weekend, Seth Rogen said to subject James Franco, "James, you look tired. Did you just read a James Franco Book?" It seemed like the perfect time to see if his books really are as boring as people say they are. Keep in mind, this isn't a long-form sonnet about his feelings. This is a book billed as being all about his childhood: girlfriends, first times, sex and all. Will it live up to the hype? BuzzFeed Celeb editors Lauren Yapalater and Whitney Jefferson read it and then sat down to discuss. This is their discussion.
Lauren Yapalater: OK, so my first thoughts on the book are… I don't love the way he writes. It's too chunky? Or broken up? Or something… Do you understand what I'm saying?
Whitney Jefferson: I think the word you're looking for is "cerebral"? He writes just a chain of his thoughts. It doesn't really make sense, and it's not pretty.
LY: Yeah. It's not a full story. It's all over the place.
WJ: I'm with you. I think before I opened this book I was expecting a mix of photos from his childhood and maybe pages from his diary — definite memories from his own childhood — whereas all of this seems to be about his teenage years.
LY: There was the introduction where he's going on about a million things. He writes, "Here are some things that most people can understand and relate to" and then says a thousand things. It's like, OK, you just named everything in the world, so someone's bound to relate to at least one of those things. Anyway, the whole book was just kind of strange.
WJ: I agree. Definitely. The number one thing I took away from this book is that James Franco is weird.
LY: Yeah, but I guess we already knew that.
WJ: We did.