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What are you reading, Chapter 2

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By far my favorite comedian. I love the pace of the book and how chapters don't have too much chronological sense to them - while half of the book is a true autobiography, the other half isn't....some chapters are strange anecdotes, or his pages of notes on a screenplay. The funny moments are funny (go figure), and some moments are poignantly thoughtful, and sometimes sad.

Of course, if you don't find him funny then you wouldn't want to read the book in the first place.
 
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White Line Fever - Lemmy Kilmister & Janiss Garza
The autobiography of Lemmy, what more do you need to know?

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Slap Happy: Pride, Prejudice, & Professional Wrestling - Thomas Hackett
A sociological look at the phenomenon and popularity of modern professional wrestling and hardcore wrestling in particular from a very academic standpoint. Reads like a sociology course textbook. Very interesting if a tad dry.

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Bob Lee (QSC) said:
Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby, a series of humorous essays, musings, and stories on being a Gooner.

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Oh, and thanks to bassybill for the heads-up on this one.
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My girlfriend really likes him. Has read a few of his titles if I'm not mistaken, including that one. Got her almost interested in "football." Almost.;)
 
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Ursus Tyrannus said:
White Line Fever - Lemmy Kilmister & Janiss Garza
The autobiography of Lemmy, what more do you need to know?

whitelinefever.jpg


Slap Happy: Pride, Prejudice, & Professional Wrestling - Thomas Hackett
A sociological look at the phenomenon and popularity of modern professional wrestling and hardcore wrestling in particular from a very academic standpoint. Reads like a sociology course textbook. Very interesting if a tad dry.

slaphappy.jpg
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Please update us on how those turn out. I've had the Lemmy book in my Amazon cart for forver, and the the wresting book sounds like it could potentially be an interesting read.
 
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Unrepresented said:
Unreadable as if written by a crazed, substance abusing rock n' roller who may be a wee bit out there, or just poorly written?
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A boring story written by an "as told to" hack. I suffered through about 150 pages before literally throwing it in the corner.

Because I read so much I get stuck without better books, I sometimes read these "as told to" fake rock "autobiographies," and the thing you take away from them is how boring and stupid these vain, ignorant peoples' lives really are.

The only exception to this I can think of was the Tommy James "as told to," which was mainly about the mafia's control of much of music, and it's going to be "a major motion picture," so I suppose others found it as interesting as I did.

People who write their own books are better.

The best book I have ever read about the music business (and I say this as someone who was pretty influential in it at one time for about fifteen minutes) is Jacob Slichter's autobio, So You Wanna Be a Rock & Roll Star, which he actually wrote himself (Harvard grad, it's the least he could do).

Though I think he's pretty much of a meatstick, Henry Rollins' Get in the Van is a fairly good look at the grim reality of low-budget touring.
 
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