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I like Biographies of people who lived interesting lives of all kinds.
Marginally successful people. Reformed degenerates. Criminals. Prison stories.
Respectable folk who have stories to tell.
I know you have read some good ones.
Try these...
"Look me in the eye" by John Elder Robison, funnier than his brother who wrote "Running with Scissors".
"You can't win" by Jack Black - career criminal in SF in the early 1900's
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Marginally successful people. Reformed degenerates. Criminals. Prison stories.
Respectable folk who have stories to tell.
I know you have read some good ones.
Try these...
"Look me in the eye" by John Elder Robison, funnier than his brother who wrote "Running with Scissors".
"You can't win" by Jack Black - career criminal in SF in the early 1900's
I got more
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Re: What are your favorite Biographies/Memoirs?
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Re: What are your favorite Biographies/Memoirs?
Wed, July 30, 2008 - 8:04 PMBoswell's "Life of Samuel Johnson"
Sterling North's "Rascal"
Lillian Hellman's "Pentimento" and "Unfinished Woman"
Gavin Maxwell's "Ring of Bright Water"
Manchester's "The Last Lion" (Churchill)
Rice's "Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton"
Plutarch's "Lives" (deserves its rep)
Seagrave "The Soong Dynasty" (amazing book, the family that made 20th century China)
Bill Mauldin, "Up Front"
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Re: What are your favorite Biographies/Memoirs?
Wed, July 30, 2008 - 8:44 PMDavid Lee Roth - Crazy From The Heat
Marilyn Manson - The Long Hard Road Out Of Hell
Motley Crue - The Dirt
Manson ( Charles ) - In His Own Words - The shocking confessions of "The most dangerous man alive."
Jane Fonda - My Life So Far - www.amazon.com/My-Life-Fa...pd_bbs_sr_1
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Re: What are your favorite Biographies/Memoirs?
Wed, September 17, 2008 - 8:44 AMI am loving Rudolf Steiner's Autobiography. -
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Re: What are your favorite Biographies/Memoirs?
Wed, September 17, 2008 - 4:11 PMI got a kick out of all of Augusten Burroughs books. Someone read the entire mess of them and hated them so I inherited them. I have to say, though, that there are times I doubt their authenticity - but is a fun read regardless.
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Re: What are your favorite Biographies/Memoirs?
Thu, September 18, 2008 - 8:36 PMI just finished "The Glass Castle" By Jeannette Walls. One of the best books, bar none, I have ever read.
www.bookbrowse.com/reviews/index.cfm
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Re: What are your favorite Biographies/Memoirs?
Sun, September 21, 2008 - 12:18 AMRousseau's Confessions
bit of a blur - Alex James
Young Stalin
and much more..... I will think of them soon.
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Re: What are your favorite Biographies/Memoirs?
Sun, November 30, 2008 - 4:10 AMI loved Sir Alec Guinness' "Blessings in Disguise." Haven't read his other one, "My Name Escapes Me."
Anthony Swofford's "Jarhead" was also amazing, and profoundly cathartic for this veteran.
