Or there is an option C, where you learn from both the good and bad parts.

In a lot of regards, it's inspirational. For example, his openness to new experiences and how experiences later found themselves as inspiration. Nobody can say that openness to novel experiences is a bad thing and I also know a lot of people who are closed like a book. The book is full of these stories which we can use to help better ourselves.

On the flip side, some of the abuse people had to deal with is not right and this is how you shouldn't be treating people - regardless of whether you're a genius. We're still bettering ourselves though.

Either way you look at it, it's still an interesting read.