I'm interested in Daniel's experiences but he is, quite simply, a terrible writer. He does hit on some interesting points but most of the time he's either speaking nonstop about Maths or some other interest or giving a lecture about how an experience taught him X or Y. I think someone read the memoir and thought it sounded very different (wooden, and robotic in a way that makes it seem like the speaker is carefully weighting each word.) and decided that they shouldn't *edit* it for content. It was dumb, there's a disproportionately high number of pages dedicated to Maths/Maths games/unexplained curiosities that are simply mentioned for the sake of listing (I'm not interested in the Maths portions myself but I can see how someone might be, the bits where he makes lists of games for no apparent reason... I have more trouble seeing the point of). 
 At the same time, I do identify and sympathize with a lot of his experiences. Except everything he tells about his personal life seems somewhat sanitized, even if it's only because he can't understand what is happening.