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Bezig met laden... Nasty: My Family and Other Glamorous Varmintsdoor Simon Doonan
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Amusing memoir from Simon Doonan. Wacky family, quest to find the 'beautiful people' in life and fabulous career. ( ) The book that spawned the TV sit com Beautiful People. I don't watch hardly any TV shows as 99% are utter crap: Beautiful People was well in the 1%. So how did the book compare to the TV show? Superbly. I would definitely suggest to anyone thinking about reading this book to watch the TV show first, as i can't see it being as good watching it afterwards. The book has so much more of Simon's life in it and there are so many more characters and escapades from his childhood that were left out of the TV show and if you read the book first you'll probably end up getting grumpy that some of the characters and escapades in the book aren't in the TV show. That's not to say the TV show is bad, it's not, it's superb, but in order to make a good sit-com out of this book there had to be a few characters left out and certain characters that were left in have been changed somewhat. Anyways, enough of that, just go watch the TV show and have a good laugh knowing you've got a lot more to read about afterwards for desert. My first Simon Doonan book, and it certainly won't be my last. He's a really good writer. Thanks for the giggles and laughs, Simon. A memoir of growing up in Reading, moving to London, and then to the US in a quest for the Beatiful People featured in magazines. The first third or so was "Oh God, I can't breathe" laugh out loud funny, the second third was entertaining enough though not as funny (just as well as I was reading it in public), while the final third was more sombre. Why can't there be a separate genre of "funny memoirs that are not depressing, even if life was not perfect?" That's what this one is. Doonan takes a glimpse of his past, and he could have chosen to cast it in a bleak, Dickensian light. Instead, we have a funny and (on the surface) light memoir. Aside from the humor, there are strong points in the book when Doonan ties his own very personal stories to larger cultural trends and events. It's a reminder that history is not dry, and it affected individuals. Doonan make the point that who you have been is what creates who you are. From his perspective, this leads to a celebration of quirky creativity that arises from seemingly unlikely places. That alone is refreshing: the celebration of truly one-off creativity. Doonan has always resisted the status quo, and this memoir is, in its way, a handbook of how you, too, can do so-- but only if you don't follow the leader. It's a lesson in forging your own way without having a misery memoir as an end product. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
A wickedly funny memoir with echoes of David Sedaris and Augusten Burroughs, Beautiful People (originally published in hardcover as Nasty) is now a BBC comedy hit series from the producer of Ab Fab and The Office. Proclaimed "the most brilliant, brash thing in type" by Liz Smith, Simon Doonan's saucy prose has established him as an emerging star among literary humorists. In this break-through memoir, reminiscent of both Sedaris and Burroughs, he revisits the landscape of his youth, and displays the irresistible charm that earned him his dedicated audience. Long before he became a celebrity in his own right--as the author of best-selling books, as the style arbiter of VH1 and America's Top Model, and the marketing genius behind Barney's New York--Simon Doonan was a "scabby knee'd troll" in Reading, England. In Beautiful People, Doonan returns to the working-class neighborhood of his youth, and chronicles the misadventures of the Doonan clan in all their wacky glory. Readers meet his mother Betty, whose gravity-defying, peroxide hairdo signified her natural glamour; his father Terry, an amateur vintner who turned parsnips into the legendary Chateau Doonan; his grandfather D.C., a hard-drinking betting man who plotted to win his fortune by turning Simon into a jockey; and his demented grandma Narg and schizophrenic Uncle Ken, both of whom lived upstairs. Fearing he would fall victim to the insanity that runs in his family, or, worse, the banality of suburban life, Doonan decamps with his flamboyant best-friend Biddie to London, where they hope to find the Beautiful People, that elusive clan who luxuriate on floor pillows and amuse each other with bon mots. Throughout the memoir--in essays about family holidays, the tart who lived next door, his first job--Doonan continues his bumbling pursuit of the fabulous life, only to learn, in the end, that perhaps the Beautiful People were the ones he left behind. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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