Stein v. Seaver

In comparing the last two [auto]biographies we have read, it is clear that there is an identity crisis with both narrators.  The use of multiple/combined perspectives serves separate purposes for each author.  Seaver uses his influence to excite and sell, while Gertrude Stein uses hers to defamiliarize and mock the typical autobiography.  Would Seaver's catering to the mainstream by accentuating Mary's more interesting life events be against Gertrude Stein's strong belief that life is not constituted by huge events but by the everyday, the mundane?  While "style" is the subject of Gertude Stein's book, "content" is the priority of Seaver's.  As a reader I question which is a more insightful reading experience.  Seaver's book certainly kept me awake but did it delve so deep into the self?  I ask you all, which book had more influence over you?