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Straight Life: The Story Of Art Pepper by Art Pepper, Gary Giddins, Todd Selbert, Laurie Pepper
wookfoot's review
challenging
dark
funny
sad
slow-paced
3.0
Hilariously little about jazz and tons about jacking off, detailed recollections of dubious sexual encounters (transcribed by his wife), and how the prison job laundromat hustle works
Content Warnings
Graphic: Rape
Moderate: Rape
Minor: Rape
tbim's review against another edition
5.0
Ok. Here's the deal. This guy is a musical genius. He is also a junky, a rapist, a thief, a racist and an abuser of women. His autobiography is a how-to-not and it's fantastic. Read it it while you listen to his music. Magic.
zachwerb's review
5.0
4.3
This no frills autobiography does not paint Art as the hero of his own life, but I would not say he was the victim. At times his thoughts and choices are disgusting, his blatant hatred towards other races, his flippant language on heavy scenarios. Even through all this I couldn't stop reading, it seemed so human and almost had an innocence, yet that does not excuse anything. Does this book excuse his actions? It reinvigorated his career and presents it so matter of factly that it normalizes it, but I guess this is could. To paint that human picture it in order to understand others in a similar scenario to him that aren't "genius" sax players. I'd say read it.
This no frills autobiography does not paint Art as the hero of his own life, but I would not say he was the victim. At times his thoughts and choices are disgusting, his blatant hatred towards other races, his flippant language on heavy scenarios. Even through all this I couldn't stop reading, it seemed so human and almost had an innocence, yet that does not excuse anything. Does this book excuse his actions? It reinvigorated his career and presents it so matter of factly that it normalizes it, but I guess this is could. To paint that human picture it in order to understand others in a similar scenario to him that aren't "genius" sax players. I'd say read it.
anfribogart's review
4.0
Art Pepper, uno degli ultimi eroi maledetti del jazz. La storia della sua vita รจ un romanzo. Un altro esempio di artista totale, un musicista che ha fatto della sua vita un'opera d'arte.
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