it is remarkable how bad most "literary" memoirs are, given how so many of them are completely made up
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That guy is just great all around
Robert Graves on his WW1 experience was also good
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To this sub-thread of good ones, I'd say George Orwell's are pretty great as well, I loved Down & Out in Paris & London and The Road to Wigan Pier... I haven't read Homage to Catalonia yet, but I've heard that people think it's his best book
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Those are a far cry from "memoirs of my 2 year millennial media career in Astoria, Queens" that make the rounds nowadays. "Homage to Takealonia"
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