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05-26-2008, 04:44 AM
|  | Female Chauvinist Pig | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: I am the Rain
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| | | Recommend Biographies and Autobiographies
Please post the titles/authors of your favorite Bio/Auto books here (if you're so inclined also post info or comments on them):
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05-26-2008, 04:49 AM
|  | Phil Goff | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Westport, New Zealand
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| | | Julian Cope - Head On. Crazy reminiscing about the heady days of the Liverpool punk scene and the success of The Teardrop Explodes.
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actualy [sic] I have quite a blessed life if I'm honest. I have many people to love, hate few and have few money problem's [sic].... What more does a person need? Oh yeah and I have some kind of humbleness unlike you of course ^_^ ~ CarefulCarpenter |
05-26-2008, 05:11 AM
|  | Registered Member | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Ireland
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Originally Posted by bort  Julian Cope - Head On. Crazy reminiscing about the heady days of the Liverpool punk scene and the success of The Teardrop Explodes. | This is a sickenenly arrogant narration but a really good read nonetheless. Julian Cope's honesty. you have been warned. |
05-26-2008, 05:19 AM
|  | old gregg? | | Join Date: Oct 2007
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| | Heavier Than Heaven. Have I read another bio?  |
05-26-2008, 05:26 AM
| | Phil Goff | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Westport, New Zealand
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Originally Posted by desdemona This is a sickenenly arrogant narration but a really good read nonetheless. Julian Cope's honesty. you have been warned. | Hell yeah it can be arrogant, but I love the honesty, and the brazenness, and I'm a bit of a Teardrop-tard, so I mostly just agree with the man!
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Time is the distance that you can't return by miles.
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actualy [sic] I have quite a blessed life if I'm honest. I have many people to love, hate few and have few money problem's [sic].... What more does a person need? Oh yeah and I have some kind of humbleness unlike you of course ^_^ ~ CarefulCarpenter |
05-26-2008, 05:31 AM
|  | Still ill.... | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: A hell of my own making
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Originally Posted by bort Julian Cope - Head On. Crazy reminiscing about the heady days of the Liverpool punk scene and the success of The Teardrop Explodes. | Did you read Repossessed as well?I got a bit bored and never managed to finish it,i might try one day.  |
05-26-2008, 05:38 AM
| | Phil Goff | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Westport, New Zealand
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Originally Posted by Miss.Hindley Did you read Repossessed as well?I got a bit bored and never managed to finish it,i might try one day. | I read it. I prefer Head On, but I like Repossessed a lot too. I mean, there's no Teardrop, obviously, but it's still cool. I like him. He made me want to do acid, though because I'm so square-like, I'd never do it unless I found somewhere it was legal. Any suggestions?
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Time is the distance that you can't return by miles.
I escaped somehow. Let's go
actualy [sic] I have quite a blessed life if I'm honest. I have many people to love, hate few and have few money problem's [sic].... What more does a person need? Oh yeah and I have some kind of humbleness unlike you of course ^_^ ~ CarefulCarpenter |
05-26-2008, 05:48 AM
| | Still ill.... | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: A hell of my own making
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| | | Haha,he put me OFF acid!! |
05-26-2008, 05:49 AM
|  | irony maiden | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: denny's.
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| | | Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
Dry by Augusten Burroughs
Bigger than Hitler, Better than Jesus by Rik Mayall (although you'll probably only be interested in this if you're a fan...i doubt TOO many americans know who he is). |
05-26-2008, 05:53 AM
| | Phil Goff | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Westport, New Zealand
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Originally Posted by cheshirecat Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs | What do you think of the movie? I bought it for ten bucks because the promos on Sky looked appealing, but I haven't watched it yet.
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Time is the distance that you can't return by miles.
I escaped somehow. Let's go
actualy [sic] I have quite a blessed life if I'm honest. I have many people to love, hate few and have few money problem's [sic].... What more does a person need? Oh yeah and I have some kind of humbleness unlike you of course ^_^ ~ CarefulCarpenter |
05-26-2008, 05:56 AM
| | Still ill.... | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: A hell of my own making
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| | | I bought Running with Scissors last week from a charity shop,i haven`t started it yet though.I was going to watch the film but thought i`d like to read the book first. |
05-26-2008, 05:57 AM
| | Female Chauvinist Pig | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: I am the Rain
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| | | An awesome start!
Of these, I've read 'Heavier..', I'm putting the others on my list.
The last two bios I've read are the Motley Crue auto-bio and I'm half through the the Warren Zevon bio.
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05-26-2008, 05:59 AM
| | irony maiden | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: denny's.
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Originally Posted by bort What do you think of the movie? I bought it for ten bucks because the promos on Sky looked appealing, but I haven't watched it yet. | it was okay. the book is infinitely better. i'm selling my copy of the dvd (also purchased for about $10) on trademe. for $15, hopefully. |
05-26-2008, 06:00 AM
| | irony maiden | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: denny's.
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| | | oh and if anyone's interested in Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon by John Harris is a good read. it's a bio of the album, pretty much.
and Please Kill Me by Gillian McCain & Legs McNeil is essentially a bio of the punk movement.
anything by Pamela des Barres is good too but pretty much everyone on kr has read her books i think so this is hardly a new/rare suggestion. |
05-26-2008, 06:04 AM
| | Phil Goff | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Westport, New Zealand
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| | | Take It Like A Man by Boy George (and Ghost Writer) is a cracking read.
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Time is the distance that you can't return by miles.
I escaped somehow. Let's go
actualy [sic] I have quite a blessed life if I'm honest. I have many people to love, hate few and have few money problem's [sic].... What more does a person need? Oh yeah and I have some kind of humbleness unlike you of course ^_^ ~ CarefulCarpenter |
05-26-2008, 06:11 AM
| | Female Chauvinist Pig | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: I am the Rain
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Originally Posted by bort Take It Like A Man by Boy George (and Ghost Writer) is a cracking read. |
Oooh! I'm totally going to Amazon for that right now. I didn't know it existed.
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05-26-2008, 06:11 AM
| | Still ill.... | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: A hell of my own making
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Originally Posted by bort Take It Like A Man by Boy George (and Ghost Writer) is a cracking read. | I was just about to recommend this,i really enjoyed it.Has anyone read Last Train To Memphis by Peter Guralnick?
Howard Hughes ;The Secret Life by Charles Higham.
Unity Mitford by David Pryce-Jones.
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05-26-2008, 06:36 AM
|  | give me some truth | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: germany
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| | | I really enjoyed Marianne Faithfulls autobiography. A lot of stories about London in the 60's including the Stones and Beatles, her affairs and her struggle with the drugs and herself as a person.
And I liked the Ian Curtis biography written by Deborah curtis, his wife: Touching from a distance. Read it in just one night. Gives you a clue who he really was and takes away some of the myth because he was a fantastic writer but also a person who was unable to deal with the difficulties of his illness |
05-26-2008, 08:08 AM
|  | Registered Member | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Christchurch, New Zealand
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| | | Moab is my Washpot - Stephen Fry
Always Unreliable - Clive James
Both very funny and witty men. |
05-26-2008, 08:42 AM
|  | Registered Member | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Sunderland, UK
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| | | I fancy reading Nikki Sixx's but I have a pile of books to get through before I even consider buying any more. | |
