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funny
informative
reflective
medium-paced
A thoroughly good read! đź‘Ťđź‘Ť So happy Mark is living during my lifetime and kicked cancer's ass! We need you in this world, Mark! đź’•
Content Warnings
Moderate: Cancer, Death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic
Minor: Drug abuse, Vomit, Toxic friendship
Divorce not listed in content warnings? It's minor to moderate here.
dark
emotional
funny
inspiring
lighthearted
fast-paced
Content Warnings
Graphic: Cancer, Mental illness
Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
fast-paced
Content Warnings
Graphic: Cursing
Moderate: Cancer, Suicidal thoughts
Minor: Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Stalking
emotional
funny
reflective
medium-paced
Must read for blink-182 fans and more so for fans of Mark. Mark's usual humor is throughout the book.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts
adventurous
emotional
funny
informative
lighthearted
reflective
sad
fast-paced
DEFINITE recommend
4.0 stars
This was an audiobook filled with f-bombs and d-pick stories. Mark is one of the co-founders of blink-182 and is known for their antics. Unfortunately, this got old quickly.
The audiobook was at its best when Mark talked about his family, wife, son, and friends. He is an emotional guy who isn't afraid to show it - I admire that. This is especially powerful for a man in the public eye who suffers from OCD, anxiety, and depression. His openness is refreshing!
If you like blink-182 or Mark Hoppus, you will like this audiobook, but be prepared the language and sexual references.
For a more detailed review, check out my blog - booksbydorothea:
https://booksbydorothea.blogspot.com/2025/04/review-fahrenheit-182-audiobook.html
4.0 stars
This was an audiobook filled with f-bombs and d-pick stories. Mark is one of the co-founders of blink-182 and is known for their antics. Unfortunately, this got old quickly.
The audiobook was at its best when Mark talked about his family, wife, son, and friends. He is an emotional guy who isn't afraid to show it - I admire that. This is especially powerful for a man in the public eye who suffers from OCD, anxiety, and depression. His openness is refreshing!
If you like blink-182 or Mark Hoppus, you will like this audiobook, but be prepared the language and sexual references.
For a more detailed review, check out my blog - booksbydorothea:
https://booksbydorothea.blogspot.com/2025/04/review-fahrenheit-182-audiobook.html
Content Warnings
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cancer, Cursing, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Stalking, Pregnancy, Alcohol, War
Moderate: Death, Grief, Pandemic/Epidemic
Minor: Animal death
emotional
funny
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Content Warnings
Graphic: Cancer, Domestic abuse
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Before going any further, I strongly recommend the audiobook if you’re able to read it that way as Mark himself narrates.
Fahrenheit-182 is a heartfelt, and funny memoir that traces Mark Hoppus’s journey from growing up in the California desert, starting blink-182 and navigating the SoCal punk scene, becoming one of the most popular bands in the late 90s and early 00s, to the break-ups and loss of friends, surviving cancer, and getting the band back together.
I really appreciated Mark’s candor throughout the book, and I personally found his early life and the early days of blink to be the most fascinating. I often forget given blink-182’s massive popularity just how deep they were in the early 90s punk scene. They were right in the thick of it with all the other classic 90s punk bands, especially those that came out of the SoCal area, and the stories of them touring and hanging out were super cool to hear. My favorite was the story of a prank war with Fletcher Dragge from Pennywise that had Mark running mostly naked in the woods in Alaska and ending with the moral: “Don’t fuck with Pennywise.” The idea that two of my favorite bands had been involved in something like that was just so fun.
Also, I think that Mark’s description of those heady days of early blink-182 really reminded me of those times myself. I remember hearing Dammit in 1997 and memorizing all the lyrics to Dude Ranch after I’d bought the CD with money I made from mowing my grandpa’s lawn, calling The Box and requesting the videos for “Josie” and “What’s My Age Again” and getting in trouble when my parents found the charges on the phone bill, and then sneaking off to Warped Tour 1999 with a couple of my friends (my mom would not have been okay with it) to see them live for the first time. When I think back to my childhood, which wasn’t bad by any means, those years between Dude Ranch, Enema of the State, and Take Off Your Pants and Jacket are what I think of, and seeing it from Mark’s perspective made those times feel familiar and new.
And my god this book is funny, especially in the early chapters before it gets to the heavier adult stuff, and even then Mark does a good job of incorporating humor where he’s able.
That said, the book does begin to lose steam, at least for me, around the time that Mark and Tom begin to butt heads, and through to the end of the book. Mainly that’s because a lot of what Mark relates during these twenty plus years he’s said elsewhere, and so a lot of it wasn’t new to me. That’s not really Mark’s fault as he and the band are so popular it would be difficult to find stories fans weren’t already familiar with during this time period. It’s still interesting and there are some fresh insights that I hadn’t seen before, but it will be familiar to a lot of people.
The book really culminates with Mark’s cancer treatment and getting the news that he was cancer free. Mark insists that he wasn’t brave or a fighter, he just sat there and let the chemo do its thing and nothing more, and I guess that’s true. There’s one thing that a favorite anime of mine says that I’ll paraphrase here: It takes courage to live, and there’s one moment where Mark does make a courageous decision, even if he didn’t realize it as such.
And holy shit, I’ve written a lot about this book that no one’s ever going to bother reading. So I’ll wrap this up by saying the best part about Fahrenheit-182 is what’s made Mark, Tom, Travis, and even Scott and Matt, so endearing over the years: to make people they don’t even know feel like you’re their friends. Like Tom and Mark, it feels like all you’d need to do is step into the book, make a funny dick joke, and be standing right there with them.
Fahrenheit-182 is a heartfelt, and funny memoir that traces Mark Hoppus’s journey from growing up in the California desert, starting blink-182 and navigating the SoCal punk scene, becoming one of the most popular bands in the late 90s and early 00s, to the break-ups and loss of friends, surviving cancer, and getting the band back together.
I really appreciated Mark’s candor throughout the book, and I personally found his early life and the early days of blink to be the most fascinating. I often forget given blink-182’s massive popularity just how deep they were in the early 90s punk scene. They were right in the thick of it with all the other classic 90s punk bands, especially those that came out of the SoCal area, and the stories of them touring and hanging out were super cool to hear. My favorite was the story of a prank war with Fletcher Dragge from Pennywise that had Mark running mostly naked in the woods in Alaska and ending with the moral: “Don’t fuck with Pennywise.” The idea that two of my favorite bands had been involved in something like that was just so fun.
Also, I think that Mark’s description of those heady days of early blink-182 really reminded me of those times myself. I remember hearing Dammit in 1997 and memorizing all the lyrics to Dude Ranch after I’d bought the CD with money I made from mowing my grandpa’s lawn, calling The Box and requesting the videos for “Josie” and “What’s My Age Again” and getting in trouble when my parents found the charges on the phone bill, and then sneaking off to Warped Tour 1999 with a couple of my friends (my mom would not have been okay with it) to see them live for the first time. When I think back to my childhood, which wasn’t bad by any means, those years between Dude Ranch, Enema of the State, and Take Off Your Pants and Jacket are what I think of, and seeing it from Mark’s perspective made those times feel familiar and new.
And my god this book is funny, especially in the early chapters before it gets to the heavier adult stuff, and even then Mark does a good job of incorporating humor where he’s able.
That said, the book does begin to lose steam, at least for me, around the time that Mark and Tom begin to butt heads, and through to the end of the book. Mainly that’s because a lot of what Mark relates during these twenty plus years he’s said elsewhere, and so a lot of it wasn’t new to me. That’s not really Mark’s fault as he and the band are so popular it would be difficult to find stories fans weren’t already familiar with during this time period. It’s still interesting and there are some fresh insights that I hadn’t seen before, but it will be familiar to a lot of people.
The book really culminates with Mark’s cancer treatment and getting the news that he was cancer free. Mark insists that he wasn’t brave or a fighter, he just sat there and let the chemo do its thing and nothing more, and I guess that’s true. There’s one thing that a favorite anime of mine says that I’ll paraphrase here: It takes courage to live, and there’s one moment where Mark does make a courageous decision, even if he didn’t realize it as such.
And holy shit, I’ve written a lot about this book that no one’s ever going to bother reading. So I’ll wrap this up by saying the best part about Fahrenheit-182 is what’s made Mark, Tom, Travis, and even Scott and Matt, so endearing over the years: to make people they don’t even know feel like you’re their friends. Like Tom and Mark, it feels like all you’d need to do is step into the book, make a funny dick joke, and be standing right there with them.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Cancer
Moderate: Animal death
Minor: Alcoholism, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic