From excerpts I've read (not going to subject myself to the full thing), it's an odd book in that it wants to be a profound look at one man escaping a powerful system which has been dragging him down, but the sheer amount of gossip and the dreadful way it's written for the most part means it ends up being really comical in ways that were probably unintentional. Most people will be reading it for the gossip but I don't think he necessarily wanted it to be that when he wrote it.