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Writers Gone Wild: The Feuds, Frolics, And Follies Of Literature's Great Adventurers, Drunkards, Lovers, Iconoclasts, And Misanthropes (2010)

by Bill Peschel(Favorite Author)

3.37 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0399536183 (ISBN13: 9780399536182)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Perigee Trade

review 1: I appreciated all of the research that went into writing this book. the bibliography is rather long on a book this short. It does a very good job of showing the humorous and often dysfunctional relationships of many historical authors. The author does reference his initial view that seemed to indicated he had writers on too high a pedistool before and liked that they were flawed which taints some of the writing.
review 2: I wish this book were as good as the title. I've said it before and I'll say it again, if you want to read dish about your favorite drunken authors doing the craziest shit imaginable, please skip this title and go straight to A Drinking Companion by Kelly Boler. I'm afraid I've spoiled myself forever on authors' drunken antics by having rea... mored ADC first. Only Hunter Thompson continues to impress me post mortem with his lunacy. And I get the feeling that if I read more about Mailer, he'd surprise me, too. less

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