"Celebrities — is there anything they don’t know?" Homer Simpson — he’s not a real cartoon character but he plays one on TV — is there anything he didn’t know when he asked this?

This week is marked by a handful o’ celeb memoirs, from the ridiculous to the sublime. That is, from a Rosie O’Donnell blab-all to an Eric Clapton autobiography (he used to be God, you know), with a smattering of some other biographies and autobiographies of varying degrees of insight and incisiveness thrown into the mix, including a couple sports-themed tomes on car racing and football, and political side-issue pubs such as Lynne Cheney’s book about her roots and a specialized Thomas Jefferson study.

The world’s first unauthorized autobiography (that’s a joke, son), loopy Rosie’s Celebrity Detox: The Fame Game has as its premise a startling revelation: Fame is an addiction! So she’s, like, a victim and stuff. She draws upon her own account of the time after she walked away from her TV show in 2002, and her reasons for returning to the air in 2006. Rosie takes us inside talk show TV, speaking candidly about the conflicts she faced as co-host on ABC's The View, where she opined with uneducated pomposity, which — in conjunction with a good sound thrashing from another View co-host — may or may not have led to her early self-imposed no-host status, when she walked away from yet another gig. In any case, here’s Rosie’s book — though I hope the publishers used a fact-checker: I wouldn’t trust Rosie with the truth even about her own life.

Further on up the road, or more likely the bookstore aisle up from the bargain bin, Eric Clapton’s Clapton: The Autobiography has a more prosaic title than Rosie’s, but it seems entirely in keeping with Clapton’s head-in-a-black-cloud character that he wouldn’t be wasting much time in something so trivial as a book title. After all, when he was 13, he received an acoustic guitar for his birthday — but instead of it being a long-sought must-have obsession because its-all-about-the-music-man, the gift was a source of irritation. It wasn’t until later when he commenced with thousands of hours of practice that he learned he had a certain knack, and the rest is, well… musical history that is not the only thing chronicled in this compelling memoir. The normally reserved Clapton also covers some personal matters, such as his past addictions with drugs and alcohol, his failed marriage to Patti Boyd Harrison (George Harrison’s ex-wife also has a recent memoir), and the impact of the accidental death of his four-year-old son Conor in 1991.