The most immodest biography you have ever read

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― [use of street parade as pivotal set piece] (nordicskilla), Friday, 30 December 2005 21:10 (twenty years ago)

Miles Davis

― gear (gear), Friday, 30 December 2005 21:12 (twenty years ago)

Miles Davis

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 30 December 2005 21:12 (twenty years ago)

Do you mean autobiography?

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 30 December 2005 21:13 (twenty years ago)

YES

― [use of street parade as pivotal set piece] (nordicskilla), Friday, 30 December 2005 21:13 (twenty years ago)

MOTLEY FRIGGIN CRUE

― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Friday, 30 December 2005 21:14 (twenty years ago)

I would say Hulk Hogan's, but I haven't actually read that one yet.

xpost JESS OTM ESPECIALLY WHEN TOMMY WENT ON ABOUT HIS SQUIRTING GIRLFRIEND

― kingfish holiday travesty (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 30 December 2005 21:15 (twenty years ago)

god i love that book

― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Friday, 30 December 2005 21:15 (twenty years ago)

that's the one where they talk about cooking dinner over a pair of burning drumsticks, right?

― kingfish holiday travesty (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 30 December 2005 21:18 (twenty years ago)

"Diary of a genius" and "the secret life of..." by Salvador Dali. He was pretty impressed by himself, to say the least.

― StanM (StanM), Friday, 30 December 2005 21:19 (twenty years ago)

My nomination is "Breaking Ground" or HOW I WAS BORN TO REBUILD THE WTC SITE by fatuous and faintly paranoid architect Daniel Liebeskind. I'm only halfway through!

― [use of street parade as pivotal set piece] (nordicskilla), Friday, 30 December 2005 21:21 (twenty years ago)

That's a recommendation even if it doesn't look like one.

― [use of street parade as pivotal set piece] (nordicskilla), Friday, 30 December 2005 21:21 (twenty years ago)

chronicles vol 1 by bob dylan

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Friday, 30 December 2005 21:22 (twenty years ago)

def. Miles Davis.

Most modest = Willie Nelson

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 30 December 2005 21:24 (twenty years ago)

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/0060393297.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 30 December 2005 21:41 (twenty years ago)

Donovan

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Friday, 30 December 2005 21:44 (twenty years ago)

Jon Luvitz should do one of these.

― nabiscothingy, Friday, 30 December 2005 21:54 (twenty years ago)

sp: lovitz

― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Friday, 30 December 2005 21:55 (twenty years ago)

Wilt Chamberlain.

― Aimless (Aimless), Friday, 30 December 2005 22:18 (twenty years ago)

'Crazy From the Heat' by David Lee Roth. It was a great read though.

― ratty, Friday, 30 December 2005 22:31 (twenty years ago)

Pale Fire ...

― kinbote, Friday, 30 December 2005 23:07 (twenty years ago)

Kinski Uncut

― Arthur (Arthur), Friday, 30 December 2005 23:22 (twenty years ago)

The Kid Stays in the Picture

― kinbote, Friday, 30 December 2005 23:26 (twenty years ago)

I've only read excerpts of it, but My Life and Loves by Frank Harris is probably in the running.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 30 December 2005 23:30 (twenty years ago)

All I Need Is Love (aka Kinski Uncut)

― milton parker (Jon L), Friday, 30 December 2005 23:35 (twenty years ago)

Gary Valentine's - My Life in the Blank Generation with Blondie with Blonde, Iggy Pop.

It's a while since I read it, but I do remember it as ludicrously self-serving.

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Saturday, 31 December 2005 00:38 (twenty years ago)

"Scar Tissue" the Anthony Kiedis auto-bio. I haven't "read it" so much as looked through it, but there is a large section of pictures of every hot girl he ever went out with, pages upon pages of blondes, all of which he credits as being a "great girl". Pretty bad.

― scout (scout), Saturday, 31 December 2005 02:48 (twenty years ago)

My grandmother is having her life story written. She has a guy come once a week and take dictation. I've read a rough draft. Oddly, it's in the third person and full of completely immodest phrases like "she was one of the most intelligent women in the Northeast." It is embarrassing to read. She wants me to help her get it published.

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Saturday, 31 December 2005 02:54 (twenty years ago)

Having never read it I'm guessing the winner is Gene Simmons.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Saturday, 31 December 2005 02:58 (twenty years ago)

Jess I suppose you're right but then what was up with his running "Jon Loooooooovitz" mispronunciation joke?

― nabisco (nabisco), Saturday, 31 December 2005 03:30 (twenty years ago)

http://www.toymania.com/news/images/0605_mrt2.jpg

― kephm (kephm), Saturday, 31 December 2005 03:48 (twenty years ago)

I haven't read the Miles Davis, but seriously doubt he outdoes Charles Mingus' "Beneath The Underdog."

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Saturday, 31 December 2005 03:49 (twenty years ago)

"Scar Tissue" the Anthony Kiedis auto-bio.

I wasted a guilty 20 minutes thumbing through that one afternoon at a bookstore. From what I could tell the second half turned into a repetitive cycle of relapses and rehabs -- with the last relapse happening like 10 pages before the end. Then he rehabs and swears he's going to stay clean this time, because he has a new dog and his dog has never seen him high and he doesn't want him(her?) to and that will give him all the motivation he needs. Um, yeah.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 31 December 2005 03:54 (twenty years ago)

That's hilarious. I am laughing out loud.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Saturday, 31 December 2005 03:55 (twenty years ago)

speaking of memoirs, i just watched mommie dearest...

"mother always has to have the last word."
"does she?"

*roll credits*

― is this an institution of learning or a teenage brothel? (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 31 December 2005 03:57 (twenty years ago)

Sheesh! None of you bean-counters and fellow-travelers have ever read Wilt Chamberlain's auto-bio, have you? C'mon! Admit it! Fess up!

It ain't nothing but an endless encomium to the Greatness That Was (Is) Wilt Chamberlain - The Greatest Basketball Player Who Ever Was or Will Be, Plus a Chick-Magnet Whose Sexual Prowess Leaves All Mortal Men Wanting in Comparison!!!! Period. Read it. I rest my case.

― Aimless (Aimless), Saturday, 31 December 2005 03:59 (twenty years ago)

Replace "Baasketball Player" with "Jazz Musician, No Scratch That Musician, Period" and you've pretty well summed up Beneath the Underdog.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Saturday, 31 December 2005 04:01 (twenty years ago)

But Wilt was 7'2". You must make allowances.

― Aimless (Aimless), Saturday, 31 December 2005 04:08 (twenty years ago)

that's what SHE said

― is this an institution of learning or a teenage brothel? (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 31 December 2005 04:09 (twenty years ago)

the Greatness That Was (Is) Wilt Chamberlain - The Greatest Basketball Player Who Ever Was or Will Be, Plus a Chick-Magnet Whose Sexual Prowess Leaves All Mortal Men Wanting in Comparison

Is this the title???

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 31 December 2005 04:34 (twenty years ago)

LYNCHING (16 new answers, last at 1:39 pm)
IT'S THE RIGHT THING TO DO (2 new answers, last at 1:38 pm)

― is this an institution of learning or a teenage brothel? (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 31 December 2005 18:40 (twenty years ago)

sorry, clicked the wrong thread!

― is this an institution of learning or a teenage brothel? (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 31 December 2005 18:40 (twenty years ago)

Title (I kid you not): Wilt -- Just Like any other 7-foot black millionaire who lives next door by Wilt Chamberlain with David Shaw.

― Aimless (Aimless), Saturday, 31 December 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

James Frey's a million tiny pieces. He can defeat teh booze and pills because he is so mighty.

― stet (stet), Saturday, 31 December 2005 20:20 (twenty years ago)

Angela Bowie

― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Saturday, 31 December 2005 20:25 (twenty years ago)

It's a toss up between Pete Waterman who along with inventing disco, Northern Soul, sampling and rap music, also saved the British railways, the three minute pop song and life as we know it. His autobio is actually a good read but he comes off as a deranged old man ranting on.

It's been a few years but I remember Holly Johnson's autobio being similarly pompous, and just as entertaining as Pete's.

But the one to trump all others, really has to be Max Clifford. If his book is true then he's the new Jesus and if you're female then go hunt him down now otherwise you'll mourn for months when he's dead: Max Clifford c/d

― Affecian (Affectian), Monday, 2 January 2006 21:17 (twenty years ago)

As I haven't written mine yet, the question is for the moment unanswerable.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 2 January 2006 21:21 (twenty years ago)

Gary Valentine's - My Life in the Blank Generation with Blondie with Blonde, Iggy Pop.

Definitely. I can't remember if I finished it.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Monday, 2 January 2006 21:23 (twenty years ago)

This thread is a great reading list

― 'Twan (miccio), Monday, 2 January 2006 21:25 (twenty years ago)

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