Tell me, you can do it right now please
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others I remember reading;
A drink with shane macgowan
What i talk about when i talk about running
Have a Nice Day !: A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks
Bob Dylan: Chronicles
kitchen confidential: bourdain
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Nicole Cooke - The Breakaway
Carrie Brownstein - Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl
David Lynch - Room to Dream
(Does The Beastie Boys book count?)
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Does a memoir count as an autobiography? E.g. if it’s autobiographical but focused on a specific situation or period of time. Most of my answers would be these unfortunately
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Limmy
Acasters funny scrapes
Fern Brady
Think those are just the three I’ve read most recently, I can’t think of any others apart from cycling books
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Confessions (weird book); Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Rousseau, Judge of Jean-Jacques (very weird book); Rousseau’s Reveries of a Solitary Walker (slightly less weird book).
First ones that spring to mind (I’m not much of an autobiography reader, except in this instance)
The Bible
Finished Gary Stevenson’s The Trading Game last week and thought it was excellent.
Things the Grandchildren Should Know - E
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Oh and Left Foot Forward - Gary Nelson
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Don’t really read many autobiographies, or biographies for that matter. Usually Wikipedia is enough for me. However, I own two that I really enjoy. One is Wild Swans by Jung Chang which I first read at 17 when my dad got it for me, shortly before my first ever international trip which happened to be to China, and reading that book before educated me so well and I really valued seeing places I’d read about. I really love it and recommend it a lot. The author was in the same professional circles as my dad’s PhD supervisor who is now a good friend who loves Kew as much as I do, and we’ve had chats about her work which was nice. My brother really loves the book too.
The other one is Have a Nice Day by Mick Foley. He was one of my favourite wrestlers as a kid, I thought he was really funny and I thought his book was too, the back cover is probably the first that comes to mind for the best back covers ever with a diagram of all the injuries he had up until the time the book was made. Always thought it was clever.
One thing I have to say I enjoy about autobiographies is the middle chunk of photos, where I can finally put faces to names for people or see images to go along with parts I’ve already read, as well as trying to avoid spoilers for the second half of the book. A little midpoint adventure
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To my shame, I have never read a full autobiography. I have the Dean Windass one which I was given as a bit of a joke (I think). Always gravitated more to fiction or less human factual books.
the Nelson Mandela one’s good. Great guy imo
Yeah I reckon
In recent years I’ve really enjoyed autobiographies by:
David Niven (first one especially)
Nile Rodgers
Fern Brady
Jessica Mitford
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Will definitely have to check that out. Love his work!
Don’t tend to read autobiographies but here is a small sample of the ones I’ve read and consider to be my favourites:
The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank
Moab is My Washpot - Stephen Fry
Homage to Catalonia - George Orwell
As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning - Laurie Lee