Most entertaining (Auto)Biography

[Heroin_Chic]

I feel like reading a (Auto)Biography again. Please recommend me one! Which did you find very funny & entertaining?

I totally enjoyed Marilyn Manson`s Long Hard Road out of Hell! Totally funny & ironic! And not many books feature Sex that includes raw meat and deaf people

The absolute worst I read was Monica Lewinsky`s - I was bored to tears!

 

[Atelier]

Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton: A Biography by Edward Rice. It's not funny but fascinatingly entertaining.

 

[Whitelinen]

Marlon Brando-Songs my mother taught me
Marilyn Manson's was funny too!

 

[peacelover142002]

Diana Vreeland's is a must-read.
Andre Leon Talley's was quite good as well.

And the bio of Anna Wintour was quite fascinating, even though it's "unauthorized."

 

[FashionQween]

Lucille Ball
"BALL OF FIRE...The Tumultous Life and Comic Art of Lucille Ball"

 

[litchickuk]

liz hurley uncovered

 

[brokenenglish]

marianne faithfull- faithfull

 

[eostre]

Last Gang in Town about the Clash, written by Marcus Gray. Very well-written and interesting, not just the usual stuff you read in articles. I think I´ve read it three times now.

 

[Zen]

Howard Hughes: His Life and Madness
Mishima: A Vision of the Void
Three Weeks With My Brother
Billie Holiday

These Autobiography books aren't funny, but still very good to read.......

 

[lady stardust]

marianne faithfull- faithfull

a great book, i have read it about 3 times...
another great autobiography is "take it like a man" by boy george.

 

[Miss Dalloway]

Marlon Brando-Songs my mother taught me
Marilyn Manson's was funny too!

Marlons was very entertaining i liked it too!

 

[Mary-Anne]

marianne faithfull- faithfull

Yess!!!

Ohh I would love to read the one about Billie Holiday also the one about the Clash.
Marilyn Manson's sounds quite interesting too actually!

For me, it was '' The James Dean Story: A Myth-Shattering Biography of an Icon ''
by Ronald Martinetti

 

[keroppi]

I don't read a lot of biographies but Marlon Brando - Songs My Mother Taught Me is something I cherish . It's more than just a typical autobiography, definitely.

 

[La bordélique]

I'm With The Band by Pamela des Barres!

 

[LoveMyBoots]

Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs - Very entertaining but not too explicit and kind of offensive if you're very conservative...

 

[Gunpowder]

The Secret Life Of Oscar Wilde was fantastic.

 

[fouroclock]

Marilyn Manson's was funny too!

He has a list of things that makes someone gay and the last item says: If your first, last, and only name is Morrissey.

 

[Gunpowder]

The Secret Life Of Oscar Wilde was fantastic.

Oops, that one's just a biography...

 

[MakeUpJunkie]

No Lifeguard on Duty- Janice Dickinson.

I read it after months of searching for it. I honestly could not stop reading it. I actually got in trouble because I tried reading it in school during a class! I read it in the morning. I read it at night. I read it before bed on the weekend so I was reading it at 2 in the morning until around 3. I couldnt put it down!

 

[Ianastar]

^ The Janice Dickinson one was pretty good.

Mine would have to be

Anais Nin's Diaries (if you thought her writing was good, her diaries are even better)

Disco Bloodbath by James St. James (its a bit disturbing and graphic, but funny in some parts and tells a very interesting story)


I love love reading biographies. I enjoy them more than fiction.