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A review by pascalthehoff
It's So Easy: And Other Lies by Duff McKagan
5.0
Did I even know this guy? It's so easy (pun intended) to write Duff McKagan off as "just the bassist" of Guns N' Roses. Nothing against bassists – quite the contrary in general. But with bands like Guns N' Roses or similar folks from the same time and genre, the bass parts usually aren't anything to write home about, as great as they may be.
I've read Slash's autobiography before, but Duff's was way more interesting and MUCH more pleasant to read, in its style and structure alone. Because Duff is note quite the big "rock star" persona as Slash or Axl, I didn't know a lot about him, despite being into Guns N' Roses for over ten years by now.
I was really surprised by how wise and educated this man seems to be and how astonishingly he turned around his life after leaving Guns N' Roses. This memoir is quite a read and a true pageturner from front to back. It's so well-paced that it probably isn't only for Guns N' Roses fans.
This book might also be really effective for teaching young people about the danger of drug abuse in a non-preachy way. They should make books like this one a mandatory read in schools – it really teaches the reader something about life, not on every single page but on more than I could have counted.
If you read one Guns N' Roses memoir, read this one, not Slash's.
I've read Slash's autobiography before, but Duff's was way more interesting and MUCH more pleasant to read, in its style and structure alone. Because Duff is note quite the big "rock star" persona as Slash or Axl, I didn't know a lot about him, despite being into Guns N' Roses for over ten years by now.
I was really surprised by how wise and educated this man seems to be and how astonishingly he turned around his life after leaving Guns N' Roses. This memoir is quite a read and a true pageturner from front to back. It's so well-paced that it probably isn't only for Guns N' Roses fans.
This book might also be really effective for teaching young people about the danger of drug abuse in a non-preachy way. They should make books like this one a mandatory read in schools – it really teaches the reader something about life, not on every single page but on more than I could have counted.
If you read one Guns N' Roses memoir, read this one, not Slash's.