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charactergoose's review against another edition
5.0
I loved this book, I think Warhol was quite the incredible artist, and his influence of American pop art and culture really influenced the way I not only think and feel about art, especially American art, but also made me rethink the way I do my own. This book is not only a great philosophical resource for artists and creative beings alike, but its really insightful in Warhol's intake and perception on life, and just were the things that made Warhol so American, so original, so famous, and so loved. I loved reading about mundane facts he added in, and also love and life advice that I'll take with me to the grave. I admire and I hope that you'll read this book in the idea of finding yourself as an artist, a philosophical person, or merely someone to listen to.
lokroma's review against another edition
3.0
Confirms my suspicions that Andy Warhol was either brilliant and putting us all on, or a kind of a jerk, or both. I appreciate fully his importance to the relentless advance of the art world where things stay the same for about a minute, but I'm just not sure how smart/creative he was.
amberhayward's review against another edition
4.0
I read a year later that Andy Warhol didn't even write this. Two staff members of his Interview magazine did it based on things Andy said and the way he was. But I loved and related to a lot of the ideas in the book or at least thought they were brilliant in their eccentricity. I really like the part about there are two kinds of people- people who are totally into having sex and are just so into it and the people who can't ever get into because they are so caught up in the idea of "I am having sex". I think this is a pretty fair and correct assessment. And I'm not sure if it was in here or in Holy Terror (written by one of the ghost-authors of this) where he talks about using a new perfume every 6 months and then discarding it so that scent reminds him of all of the things that happened in that period and whenever he smells it, the memories from that time will come back. I love it.
emmacdaye's review against another edition
4.0
The best way I can describe this read was like looking into a diary or having a late night conversation with an old friend. Such a fun read! Quite informative if you want it to be and entertaining if you don’t want to be informed.
hitanne47's review against another edition
3.0
This was a fun read but I don’t feel like I really gained anything by reading it. It’s more a collection of thoughts and experiences than an autobiography or memoir. Sometimes comes off a little pretentious but was pretty consistently entertaining regardless. Last few chapters were rather a slog, in my opinion. Also I can’t shake a feeling of disingenuousness knowing that the book was ghostwritten by Pat Hackett from conversations and recordings of Warhol. Yes, they’re Andy’s thoughts, but translated and distilled.
hafle's review against another edition
lighthearted
reflective
relaxing
medium-paced