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A review by kingcrookback
None of This Rocks: A Memoir by Joe Trohman
emotional
funny
reflective
medium-paced
I made a playlist of the individual songs mentioned by name in the book, if anyone's interested: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6EfjS2lgJOWe9XsExa8wQm?si=a8d282ca2e2347c1
Joe's got a very distinct voice that's very consistent throughout the entire book--a deliberate derailing of seriousness. Readers will quickly learn the reasons why that is. But he steers us between painful and humorous within the same page, if not the same paragraph, in a way that (usually) doesn't feel unfocused. It's not a flaw, more a feature of how his sense of humor works. All in all, this is a very engaging, illuminating, and at times heartwarming (man loves his family and friends) memoir from an artist that often gets shafted as "that other, other guy from Fall Out Boy."
Be warned: lotta piss and dick talk. Like...last time I thought "God, enough about your dick!" this many times, I was reading The Sun Also Rises. Way less racist and antisemitic, though. Also, he maybe should've censored that one racist slur, though I understand that he included it to illustrate the hostility of the neighborhood he was describing.
Joe's got a very distinct voice that's very consistent throughout the entire book--a deliberate derailing of seriousness. Readers will quickly learn the reasons why that is. But he steers us between painful and humorous within the same page, if not the same paragraph, in a way that (usually) doesn't feel unfocused. It's not a flaw, more a feature of how his sense of humor works. All in all, this is a very engaging, illuminating, and at times heartwarming (man loves his family and friends) memoir from an artist that often gets shafted as "that other, other guy from Fall Out Boy."
Be warned: lotta piss and dick talk. Like...last time I thought "God, enough about your dick!" this many times, I was reading The Sun Also Rises. Way less racist and antisemitic, though. Also, he maybe should've censored that one racist slur, though I understand that he included it to illustrate the hostility of the neighborhood he was describing.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Bullying, Emotional abuse, Drug abuse, Addiction, Antisemitism, and Child abuse
Moderate: Chronic illness, Homophobia, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, and Mental illness
Minor: Body shaming, Cancer, and Rape