Im ditching my usual choice of read as im starting to guess the plot before the end of the first chapter. Ive never read a biography.

Whose do you recommend??

( It has to be amusing rather than sob story and depressing)

i,m in middle of brian cloughs, thats rather good

Edited September 28, 200619 yr by STAN

Even though I don't like the bloke, Frank Skinners is most amusing

Ben Elton - The First Casualty.

 

Best read for a long time.

Reading Donnie Brasco now - it's f??cking great. Good film, so you know the book will be miles better.

Down and out in Paris and London - George Orwell - Not as depressing as it sounds!

Reading Donnie Brasco now - it's f??cking great. Good film, so you know the book will be miles better.

 

i find books always are better, which is fab if you watch the film first, but a let down the other way around.

Just read Pele's autobiography and it was very disappointing. Avoid it.

Reading Donnie Brasco now - it's f??cking great. Good film, so you know the book will be miles better.

 

Great film? I thought it was shit, average at best. Mind you I don't seem to like what other people so called critics do. I remember seeing "History of Violence" as all the critics said don't miss it. What a pile of shite, the Mrs fell a sleep on me shoulder.

 

Ah well, got to nick all her chocolate so not all bad...

 

Bollox forgot to add the book. Psycho - Stuart Pearce - funny in parts but just a really down to earth bloke who still does the odd sparky job for his mates.

The Damage Done.

 

I know it's been mentioned on here a few times but superb.

not an auto/biography

 

in cold blood

Edited September 28, 200619 yr by Casino

Anthony Kiedis - Scar Tissue

 

feck me that fella had a wierd childhood!

Richard Pryors is a cracker!

 

Tales from his childhood.....where his family ran a string of knocking shops...the time he was abused.....his love of "pussy"...his love of coke....his freebasing incident when he set himself on fire....the day he walked off stage in front of an audience in vegas....the day he shot his wives car to bits....his heart bypass op....his battle with MS...his seven wifes...umpteen kids and grandkids...

 

Its got the lot..

 

Edited September 28, 200619 yr by Bigtoe

as mentioned damage done, one of the best reads ever

 

donnie brasco - not bad one of the better "mob" books

 

bloggs 19 - story of drugs, underworld criminality resulting in the range rover shootings and the tragic overdose of leah betts

 

catch me if you can - story of frank abagnale a fraudster who posed as amoungst other things a pilot dont let the film put you off

 

and if you want an autobiography read micheal watsons, you may find the details of his boxing career a little tedious(not sure if you like noble art misses c ) but his story after the eubank fight is compelling. if you havnt got a lump in your throat at the end you are made of stone.

 

i have the above books knocking around somehere i will dig them out and pass them on if any interest you

Just read Barry Knight's autobiography - cracking read in fact and fair play to him for honesty

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Peter and Jane for me. It's ace, it's got romance, drama and nature - brill.

 

It's like War and Peace it's taken me years to read it.

 

EDIT: For those of you that are sharp, I put Jack and Jill originally. Yet more proof that you should never post when you're hammered.

Edited September 28, 200619 yr by Big City Girl

The moons a balloon David Niven

Get 'Marching Powder' The Book I mean.

 

A belting read, about a bloke who got send down in Bolivia ( I Think).

 

I bought it for a holiday, but had finished it off in 2 days.

 

Could'nt put it down.

Great film? I thought it was shit, average at best. Mind you I don't seem to like what other people so called critics do. I remember seeing "History of Violence" as all the critics said don't miss it. What a pile of shite, the Mrs fell a sleep on me shoulder.

 

Ah well, got to nick all her chocolate so not all bad...

 

Bollox forgot to add the book. Psycho - Stuart Pearce - funny in parts but just a really down to earth bloke who still does the odd sparky job for his mates.

 

I liked the film, not many others do, though. My old man said that History of Violence is w??nk, put me off watching it now.

Get 'Marching Powder' The Book I mean.

 

A belting read, about a bloke who got send down in Bolivia ( I Think).

 

I bought it for a holiday, but had finished it off in 2 days.

 

Could'nt put it down.

 

Who did you get to read it to you

Richard Pryors is a cracker!

 

Tales from his childhood.....where his family ran a string of knocking shops...the time he was abused.....his love of "pussy"...his love of coke....his freebasing incident when he set himself on fire....the day he walked off stage in front of an audience in vegas....the day he shot his wives car to bits....his heart bypass op....his battle with MS...his seven wifes...umpteen kids and grandkids...

 

Its got the lot..

 

 

Good call Bigtoe, got it for Xmas with the box set of his stand ups. He was one funny, fooked up bloke.

Even though I don't like the bloke, Frank Skinners is most amusing

 

 

 

 

Strongly recommend Frank Skinner's

George Bests was ok... for a munich.

 

Cloughs was class but avoid Dalglish's... he comes across as a total c??nt

Francis Wheen wrote an excellent biography of Karl Marx, I'd recommend it.

Richard Pryors is a cracker!

 

Tales from his childhood.....where his family ran a string of knocking shops...the time he was abused.....his love of "pussy"...his love of coke....his freebasing incident when he set himself on fire....the day he walked off stage in front of an audience in vegas....the day he shot his wives car to bits....his heart bypass op....his battle with MS...his seven wifes...umpteen kids and grandkids...

 

Its got the lot..

 

You've spoilt it now ya c??nt, I was gonna read that.

You've spoilt it now ya c??nt, I was gonna read that.

 

He dies in the end too !