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12-06-2007, 05:24 PM
|  | THRILLHO | | Join Date: Apr 2006
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| | | good & bad bios/autobiographies/memoires
What are some of your favorite biographies/autobiographies/memoirs?
Which did you hate?
Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay put me to sleep every time I picked it up. But I've heard Zelda, also by Nancy Milford, is really good so I don't know.
Naked by Sedaris is one of my favorite books period.
I really liked what little I've read by James Baldwin & Anne Fadiman.
& I kind of want to read Steve Martin's new book.
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12-06-2007, 05:50 PM
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| | | i was on a terrible caravan holiday, the closest shop was asda. and the only book that didnt look totally unbearable at the time was a robbie williams biography. i hate to say it, BUT I ENJOYED IT quite a lot at the time. especially the part when he quit take that and took a melon off the table they were sat at, and took it out of the room with him
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12-07-2007, 02:56 AM
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Probably the first truly adult book I ever read, and still the best biography. A shame it's out of print.
Nancy Mitford's Zelda is fine, too. |
12-07-2007, 07:44 AM
|  | in a strange way, hch > u | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: THAWNG ISLAND
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probably the first truly adult book I ever read  |
12-10-2007, 03:52 PM
|  | fizzy lifting drinks | | Join Date: Jan 2007
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| | | I liked Another Bullshit Night in Suck City by Nick Flynn.
I did not like The Liar's Club by Mary Karr. |
12-10-2007, 03:55 PM
|  | for beauty douglas | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: i am the cheese
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| | | every time this sort of thread comes up i always say goodbye to all that by robert graves, but no one has ever read it on my recommendation so why bother now?
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12-10-2007, 04:18 PM
| | fizzy lifting drinks | | Join Date: Jan 2007
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Originally Posted by kesh  every time this sort of thread comes up i always say goodbye to all that by robert graves, but no one has ever read it on my recommendation so why bother now? | kesh i've been meaning to ask you if you've seen/what you think of the movie Two or Three Things I Know About Her. obviously this isn't the place for it, but what is? |
12-10-2007, 04:21 PM
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Originally Posted by cricket kesh i've been meaning to ask you if you've seen/what you think of the movie Two or Three Things I Know About Her. obviously this isn't the place for it, but what is? | i've not seen it. i'd like to see it
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12-10-2007, 06:26 PM
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| | best biography (out of print and very expensive) Full Moon by Dougal Butler
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12-10-2007, 08:22 PM
|  | die kleine daumenlutscher | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: Socialist Republic of Wales
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| | | The Nick Drake biography by Patrick Humphries is fantastic (but terribly sad, obviously).
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12-11-2007, 03:36 AM
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| | | Under my skin, by Doris Lessing, is a wonderful autobiography. All honest and stuff. "Not a hint of artifice"! Except where it's needed, and admitted.
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12-11-2007, 09:08 AM
| | give me the sickest one. | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: fox in the snow
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| | | best autobiography
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the cave mouth shines
by pure force of will
i look down on the world
from the top of this lonesome hill
and you can run, and run some more
from here all the way to singapore
but i will carry you home in my teeth
-mountain goats |
12-11-2007, 09:37 AM
| | die kleine daumenlutscher | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: Socialist Republic of Wales
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| | Oh, and 
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12-11-2007, 09:42 AM
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Originally Posted by bort Under my skin, by Doris Lessing, is a wonderful autobiography. All honest and stuff. "Not a hint of artifice"! Except where it's needed, and admitted. | Did you also read Walking in the Shade? |
12-11-2007, 12:16 PM
| | THRILLHO | | Join Date: Apr 2006
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| | I'm going to look for some of these around town.
Right now I'm reading M: The Man Who Would Become Caravaggio, by Peter Robb, and I'm liking it a lot.
OH & Shock Value, by John Waters, was a lot of fun.
ps sorry about the misspelling in the title of the thread  |
12-24-2007, 07:20 AM
|  | bittersweet is evergreen | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Glasgow Scotland
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| | | I liked John Peel's Margrave of The Marshes, I'm With The Band by Pamela Des Barres, Antonia Fraser's book on Marie Antoinette, Surviving Picasso by Francoise Gilot. There are so many god awful rock band biographies out there, how do these people get paid?? |
12-25-2007, 02:41 PM
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| | | 'Bound For Glory' by Woody Guthrie would be my favourite. An honourable mention goes to volume one of Bob Dylan's 'Chronicles'.
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12-26-2007, 03:56 AM
|  | moz angeles | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: nyc
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Originally Posted by Squarepusher 'Bound For Glory' by Woody Guthrie would be my favourite. An honourable mention goes to volume one of Bob Dylan's 'Chronicles'. | That's not the one you bought at a charity shop with me in London, was it? 'Cause that one was incomprehensible.
Practically every band memoir/bio has been crap. But I did enjoy Poppy's book...ohh and Jenna Jameson's...
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12-26-2007, 10:30 AM
|  | Karma Duster | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Hereford / Reading
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| | | Stephen Fry's 'Moab is My Washpot' is one of the best autobiographies that I have read. It's so distinctly Stephen in every way. It's written about his childhood, and is just a really lovely book that is both really sweet and absoloutely hilarious to read. |
12-26-2007, 11:27 AM
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