Jake Brennan
Auteur van Disgraceland: Musicians Getting Away with Murder and Behaving Very Badly
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Disgraceland: Musicians Getting Away with Murder and… door Jake Brennan
Not at all what I expected. The title is misleading. The author picked musicians & took information for the backstory from other publications and newspaper stories and then added his own spin or twist to everything. The conversation between "skinny" Elvis & "fat" Elvis was so stupid and lacked imagination. The write up on Axl Rose felt like it was recycled from MTV & Rolling Stone magazine. Apparently the author has a podcast that's "acclaimed". No thanks
I hoovered up music biographies when I was in school, so I've heard lots of these stories hinted at before, but the writers were usually coy about it. It was interesting to see them dramatised and dealt with without the author flinching away.
Despite a disclaimer at the start explaining the reason for the approach, the stories are slightly too glamourised for comfort, and I would like to see a book in response that was victim-centred.
Despite a disclaimer at the start explaining the reason for the approach, the stories are slightly too glamourised for comfort, and I would like to see a book in response that was victim-centred.
This book is in the library True Crime Section, it really should be in the Fiction Section, since the author takes a few known facts and then makes up a story to accompany these facts out of his own imagination.
Author Jake Brennan turns well-known stories of celebrity crime into creative writing exercises in this collection. Whether he’s psychoanalyzing Jerry Lee Lewis, defending Sid Vicious, or making up hallucinatory conversations between Phil Spector and John Lennon or between Elvis Presley and himself, Brennan keeps the proceedings lively even though death is the ever-present subtext.
One flaw in the collection, however, is the author’s seeming lack of sympathy for the victims of Chuck Berry’s illicit bathroom videotaping scandal.
Perhaps this book is not in the best of taste, but I found these familiar rock ‘n’ tales engaging enough to keep me reading.… (meer)
One flaw in the collection, however, is the author’s seeming lack of sympathy for the victims of Chuck Berry’s illicit bathroom videotaping scandal.
Perhaps this book is not in the best of taste, but I found these familiar rock ‘n’ tales engaging enough to keep me reading.… (meer)
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- #346,250
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- 3.5
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- 5
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- 8