It's one of the funniest books I've ever read
And his TV interview with Parkinson, when he was promoting it was equally side-splitting
More recently doubt has been cast on the veracity of some of his tales, but that makes them no less funny.
I live about 150m from the remains of the railway station from which he would travel from Stowe skule to London as a callow youth, to spend his weekends shagging a kind-hearted tart known as Nessie: a tale that comes to my (envious) mind each time I cross the platform on my way into town