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ms mac is v much into her biogs/autobiogs and its getting to near christmas hoarding time. recommendations of well-written books about interesting people gratefully accepted.
thinking sterling hayden's wanderer, is there a good one of christopher lee? etc etc
― champagne supernovella (darraghmac), Friday, 18 October 2013 07:37 (ten years ago) link
currently reading Manchild in the Promised Land by Claude Brown about his experiences growing up in Harlem in the late 40s & 50s. He got into some petty crime an d got sent to reform school a couple of times, came out started dealing, got robbed moved into education. Interesting book.
I was hoping it would be an echo of
Pimp by Iceberg Slim which is a fictionalised account of his similar upbringing.
but Brown is its own thing, still interesting but not as snappy as Slim
― Stevolende, Friday, 18 October 2013 09:16 (ten years ago) link
Most biogs Ive read are either music or sports related to be honest which is probably not Ms Macs thing... Iain McCalman's bio on 18th Century mystic-charlatan-celebrity Count Cagliostro is quite triffic.
― Old Boy In Network (Michael B), Friday, 18 October 2013 09:36 (ten years ago) link
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― champagne supernovella (darraghmac), Friday, 18 October 2013 10:04 (ten years ago) link
Just read Scott Mills' one. Should be starting a new column for V**E where I do really earnest reviews of celebrity biographies I get in Poundland.
― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Friday, 18 October 2013 10:30 (ten years ago) link
whats the ! all about?
― Old Boy In Network (Michael B), Friday, 18 October 2013 11:27 (ten years ago) link
sounds perfect
― champagne supernovella (darraghmac), Friday, 18 October 2013 11:55 (ten years ago) link
is it called Scott Mills: A Life in Monochrome?
― chimped the keeper (Noodle Vague), Friday, 18 October 2013 12:06 (ten years ago) link
Scott Mills: Love You Bye
Not too bad as far as these things go. Racing through Lee Mack's 'Mack the Life' which is proving to be shamefully entertaining. Dreading reading the Rowland Rivron one.
― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Friday, 18 October 2013 13:37 (ten years ago) link
Favorites:
Luis Buñuel - My Last SighGore Vidal - PalimpsestJean-Paul Sartre - The WordsMartin Amis - ExperiencePhilip Roth - PatrimonySimone de Beauvoir - A Very Easy Death
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 18 October 2013 14:03 (ten years ago) link
The last great one I read was Patti Smith's Just Kids.
― the vineyards where the grapes of corporate rock are stored (cryptosicko), Friday, 18 October 2013 15:26 (ten years ago) link
Aldous Huxley's Grey Eminence is v good, dunno if it fits the bill though.
― calumerio, Friday, 18 October 2013 15:37 (ten years ago) link
Very much would i think, she has damned near a fetish for mothy english intellectual types iirc
― champagne supernovella (darraghmac), Friday, 18 October 2013 15:42 (ten years ago) link
lauren slater, 'lying'
what's the genealogy for this kind of literary memoir, with this voice? everything has the hell written out of it, for sure, but somehow reading it i feel like there would be no point to thinking seriously about it, not because of the author's business about not telling the truth, but just because the stylization seems so automatic now - and i am not a person who reads a lot of contemporary 'literary' non/fiction - that it seems like there could be little to it but performance. i guess i felt similarly reading maggie nelson last year.
― j., Monday, 19 December 2016 06:28 (seven years ago) link