A review by kmccubbin
Dino: Living High in the Dirty Business of Dreams by Nick Tosches

3.0

I liked this book, but, ultimately, a book about a person who abjectly refused to reveal anything about himself to anyone in his life was a little too ambitious. Tosches tries a kind of loose, slang driven, style to approximate Dean's thoughts and it all rings a little forced. (A charge the author, himself, makes against "On the Road" multiple times in the book, ironically. I'm not sure what his beef with Kerouac is.) That said, the last section IS devastating and there's a lot of fascinating stuff, but too often the book feels like a juggler only indicating that he's throwing balls.