Good Review here:
http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2 ... ie-si.html
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I read the Springsteen bio over the last couple evenings. It's certainly one of the most literate rock bios I've ever read. It's interesting how in the last decade, dealing with depression he's become a big proponent of drugs like Klonopin. The chapter about Clarence's passing at the tail end of the book is heartbreaking.SR wrote:In the last 6 months, I read Reckless by Chrissie. Real disappointment. She's really rough on Farndon....ebullient on JHS. Martin Chambers had a thread going on PledgeMusic recently where he was selling his yet unwritten bio, and I asked him what the BS was there on Farndon. He agreed and said more would come out later, but just last week suspended his efforts.
I just started the new Springsteen bio; it reads well into the first 100 pages, if a bit depressing.
The storyteller isn't limited to songs I appears. No co-writer is listed, which I don't believe but I can see this guy writing most of this.Pandemonium wrote:I read the Springsteen bio over the last couple evenings. It's certainly one of the most literate rock bios I've ever read. It's interesting how in the last decade, dealing with depression he's become a big proponent of drugs like Klonopin. The chapter about Clarence's passing at the tail end of the book is heartbreaking.SR wrote:In the last 6 months, I read Reckless by Chrissie. Real disappointment. She's really rough on Farndon....ebullient on JHS. Martin Chambers had a thread going on PledgeMusic recently where he was selling his yet unwritten bio, and I asked him what the BS was there on Farndon. He agreed and said more would come out later, but just last week suspended his efforts.
I just started the new Springsteen bio; it reads well into the first 100 pages, if a bit depressing.
He didn't have any help, no ghost writer. From what I understand, he wrote it in shorthand over the course of the last 7 years in fits and starts, drop it for a few months at a time, go back and re-read and edit and eventually turned in a mountain of hand written pages to the publisher. He's doing a book signing at a Barnes and Nobel in LA Monday which I expect to be insane. Not for me, thank you.SR wrote:The storyteller isn't limited to songs I appears. No co-writer is listed, which I don't believe but I can see this guy writing most of this.Pandemonium wrote: I read the Springsteen bio over the last couple evenings. It's certainly one of the most literate rock bios I've ever read. It's interesting how in the last decade, dealing with depression he's become a big proponent of drugs like Klonopin. The chapter about Clarence's passing at the tail end of the book is heartbreaking.
Most impressivePandemonium wrote:He didn't have any help, no ghost writer. From what I understand, he wrote it in shorthand over the course of the last 7 years in fits and starts, drop it for a few months at a time, go back and re-read and edit and eventually turned in a mountain of hand written pages to the publisher. He's doing a book signing at a Barnes and Nobel in LA Monday which I expect to be insane. Not for me, thank you.SR wrote:The storyteller isn't limited to songs I appears. No co-writer is listed, which I don't believe but I can see this guy writing most of this.Pandemonium wrote: I read the Springsteen bio over the last couple evenings. It's certainly one of the most literate rock bios I've ever read. It's interesting how in the last decade, dealing with depression he's become a big proponent of drugs like Klonopin. The chapter about Clarence's passing at the tail end of the book is heartbreaking.
Jut finished it. By far the best auto bio I have ever read. In the acknowledgements, he expresses gratitude for a great number of people who include some who spent countless hours assisting with the endless rewrites. Ho most certainly had help with framing, toning, editing and language. Still, I think he did far more than most in these regards, far more.....it's just too heartfelt, authentic, and sincere.Pandemonium wrote:He didn't have any help, no ghost writer. From what I understand, he wrote it in shorthand over the course of the last 7 years in fits and starts, drop it for a few months at a time, go back and re-read and edit and eventually turned in a mountain of hand written pages to the publisher. He's doing a book signing at a Barnes and Nobel in LA Monday which I expect to be insane. Not for me, thank you.SR wrote:The storyteller isn't limited to songs I appears. No co-writer is listed, which I don't believe but I can see this guy writing most of this.Pandemonium wrote: I read the Springsteen bio over the last couple evenings. It's certainly one of the most literate rock bios I've ever read. It's interesting how in the last decade, dealing with depression he's become a big proponent of drugs like Klonopin. The chapter about Clarence's passing at the tail end of the book is heartbreaking.