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Bohemian Love Diaries: A Memoir (2013)

by Slash Coleman(Favorite Author)

3.7 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0762796553 (ISBN13: 9780762796557)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Lyons Press

review 1: Slash Coleman has one of the most authentic voices I've read in a long time. From the moment I started reading this book, I was drawn into his world, seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling (although I sometimes didn't want to) the whole of his experience expressed with an open heartedness that is rarely found. His descriptions of people are incredibly vivid, I could not wait to meet the next character! He starts on page one by describing a store clerk like this: "She resembles a stick of beef jerky in a maroon apron and is chewing a big wad of bright pink gum," and they only get better and better, stranger, and more exotic. The Bohemian Love Diaries made me double over with laughter, read passages aloud to everyone I saw, quote lines in public, and cry. I'm not quite sure how ... morehe does it, but Coleman manages to elicit every possible emotion in the space of a few sentences. I love this book for its honesty, its raw telling, its humor, and truth.Tip: Don't read this book where you need to be quiet. You will be laughing, sobbing, or yelling, "No way!" more times than you can count. Great book. Great read.
review 2: I have been on a memoir kick lately so I was excited to receive The Bohemian Love Diaries. It offered an insider's view to the eccentric world of Slash Coleman, from a seven-year-old boy to a grown man and the struggles along the way. The son of an artist, Slash is "plagued" by a similar curse of creativity and is unsure of the outlet in which to express it. This struggle takes him across the country and back, often with a lovesick heart in tow. Although intriguing, some of the chapters felt clipped while others didn't add much to the overall content of the memoir. I do feel, however, that this book provided me with a better understanding of the seeming non-conventional artists and why we, as a society, shouldn't try to put them into suits and ties, but rather allow their creativity and curiosity to flourish. less

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