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woogafolgawomp's review
informative
slow-paced
2.0
very informative, but this book is absolutely glacial and i almost fell asleep reading several times.
jakepauler69's review
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.5
the best eulogy anyone could ask for, decurtis shows the good, the bad, and the ugly of this genius artist. he has a few writing choices that i find a bit awkward but his intent to cover the greatest musician of all time succeeds with flying colors.
alienporcupine's review
dark
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
3.5
This was pretty interesting but I felt like it was really trying to psychoanalyze Lou like how do you know random journalist about whether he felt love for his mom? Or his dad? I feel that complicated relationships like that should not be talked about in an (un-authorized) biography of someone's life. Like just tell me what the man did and how others felt about him without trying to dissect complicated relationships between him and his parents and whether their relationship was Oedipal or not.
toddbert's review
3.0
The beginning and ending of Reed’s life is well recounted here, but during the middle there’s a whole lot of lengthy focus on his studio albums, who played on them, and analyses of lyrics. Most people who reed this are going to be familiar with a chunk of his work, if not all of it; we read biographies to gain insights into the person behind the work, not the work itself.
kfrench1008's review
3.0
I learned a lot about Lou, but the author has an annoying tendency to presume to know what Lou was thinking. Just give me the man's life story; don't tell me what you think was going through his head (the fact that he thanks his psychotherapist in the acknowledgements was NOT a good sign).