Reviews tagging 'Grief'

The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music by Dave Grohl

45 reviews

anne_reader's review against another edition

funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted fast-paced

4.0

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Grief, and Alcohol

kiwichill's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing sad medium-paced

5.0

Easily the best autobiography by a musician I have read.  His music is the soundtrack to my own life.  He is an inspiration 

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Alcohol, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Grief, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Self harm and Vomit

makoto_briar's review against another edition

funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

4.5

---

Content Warnings

Minor: Grief and Death

lyricalsoul's review against another edition

funny hopeful informative inspiring fast-paced

4.0

I am not a fan of Dave Grohl’s music but after reading this book I am a fan of Dave Grohl. This book was an interesting account if Grohl’s music and life. Highly enjoyable.

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction and Alcohol

Moderate: Addiction, Grief, Alcoholism, Death, and Drug use

amberinpieces's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted reflective medium-paced

4.0

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Medical content, Cursing, Blood, and Drug use

Minor: Addiction, Death of parent, Grief, Vomit, and Death

lawmixitup's review against another edition

funny reflective medium-paced

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Addiction, Blood, Vomit, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Suicide, Death, and Alcoholism

Details of suicide are not discussed; impact of drug use; there are several injuries, including a list of gruesome ones from Grohl's childhood, as well as at least one fight; medical content is the primarily the result of

too much caffeine

and injuries

noshinbean's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

---

Content Warnings

Moderate: Cursing, Vomit, Addiction, Death, Grief, Abandonment, Alcohol, Drug abuse, Injury/Injury detail, and Suicide

allingoodtime's review against another edition

adventurous inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

When I started partaking in audiobooks, this title came up over and over as a recommendation. I love music, but I’m not someone who knows a lot about music or musicians. If I’m not listening to an audiobook while I’m cooking or doing other tasks, I have music playing. I constantly hum or sing without even realizing I’m doing it. But ask me the title of a song or who sings it and I most likely will have no idea. Before reading this book, I knew about Dave Grohl on a more surface level. He always seemed like a down-to-earth sort of person who would stick up for the “little guy” and give his voice to social justice issues. Plus, I knew I liked the Foo Fighters and Nirvana. Memoirs can be hit or miss for me, they’re not my usual genre. I figured I’d give it a shot. I’m glad I did; I have so much more appreciation for this artist and love how humble he is while telling truly incredible tales.

While I don’t know much about music, I am in awe of musicians. My brain is not wired that way and I am jealous. The title of this book is apt as Dave Grohl tells little stories about his life, jumping from childhood to adulthood and back. These stories are really a series of fascinating anecdotes. There is no denying he has immense talent, but he also has had some very advantageous things happen to him that helped his career along. He doesn’t take that for granted and it’s wonderful to see that he still finds joy and amazement when he meets another famous musician. He’s the type of guy who knows who everyone is but is astonished when they know who he is. There are a lot of famous names in this book, yet it never feels as though he’s name-dropping. He’s just as excited about meeting the people as we are to hear about them. I am now a fan for life.

This book has me looking at reading other memoirs via audiobooks. Not everyone has the voice or the temperament to read their own stories, but I would love to listen to more that are narrated by the author like this one. And you can bet Foo Fighters has featured more prominently on my playlist lately. 

---

Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Drug abuse, and Suicide

antimony27's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death of parent, Drug use, Grief, Death, and Alcohol

maink's review

emotional funny inspiring lighthearted medium-paced

4.5

---

Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide, Addiction, and Grief