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“We might as well have had sex now.” (Lady Gaga )
“If you were a girl, I’d f*ck you.” (Bo Diddley )
“We could do fifteen minutes in Vegas.” (Chuck Berry )
“One of the longest and greatest interviews I’ve ever had.” (Brian Wilson, The Beach Boys )
“The best interview of my life.” (Britney Spears )
“Well Neil, f*ck you.” (Phil Collins, Angry Letter to Neil Strauss )
“The best and most honest daily newspaper reporter rock has ever seen.” (Dave Marsh, Author )
“This excellent bathroom read is boiled down like little rocks of crack.” (Library Journal )
“Gonzo interviewing at its best.” (Kirkus Reviews (starred review) )
“A terrific look at the dysfunctional livelihoods of stardom.” (Publishers Weekly )
“God bless the demons—and Neil Strauss too.” (Nikki Sixx, Mötley Crüe )
“If you were a girl, I’d f*ck you.” (Bo Diddley )
“We could do fifteen minutes in Vegas.” (Chuck Berry )
“One of the longest and greatest interviews I’ve ever had.” (Brian Wilson, The Beach Boys )
“The best interview of my life.” (Britney Spears )
“Well Neil, f*ck you.” (Phil Collins, Angry Letter to Neil Strauss )
“The best and most honest daily newspaper reporter rock has ever seen.” (Dave Marsh, Author )
“This excellent bathroom read is boiled down like little rocks of crack.” (Library Journal )
“Gonzo interviewing at its best.” (Kirkus Reviews (starred review) )
“A terrific look at the dysfunctional livelihoods of stardom.” (Publishers Weekly )
“God bless the demons—and Neil Strauss too.” (Nikki Sixx, Mötley Crüe )
Book Description
You can tell a lot about somebody in a minute. If you choose the right minute. Here are 228 of them.
Join Neil Strauss, "The Mike Tyson of interviewers," (Dave Pirner, Soul Asylum), as he
- Makes Lady Gaga cry, tries to keep MÖtley CrÜe out of jail & gets kidnapped by Courtney Love
- Shoots guns with Ludacris, takes a ride with Neil Young & goes to church with Tom Cruise and his mother
- Spends the night with Trent Reznor, reads the mind of Britney Spears & finds religion with Stephen Colbert
- Gets picked on by Led Zeppelin, threatened by the mafia & serenaded by Leonard Cohen
- Picks up psychic clues with the CIA, diapers with Snoop Dog & prison survival tips from Rick James
- Goes drinking with Bruce Springsteen, dining with Gwen Stefani & hot tubbing with Marilyn Manson
- Talks glam with David Bowie, drugs with Madonna, death with Johnny Cash & sex with Chuck Berry
- Gets molested by the Strokes, in trouble with Prince & in bed with… you’ll find out who inside
And many, many more awkward moments and accidental adventures with the world’s number one stars in Everyone Love You When You’re Dead.
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Entertaining,
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Definitely a very entertaining book! However, at times it can feel a bit like watching TV with someone who's channel surfing. Stumble upon something great and then in an instance its on to the next channel. I understand Strauss wrote this book in that manner, but some parts do leave you wanting more, while others you can't wait to get over.
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It occurs to me while reading this book that Neil Strauss has met a lot of people. Over 3,000 close encounters of the celebrity kind. Andy Warhol said; "Everyone gets their 15 minutes of fame." Not everyone gets more than 15 minutes, but thankfully most of those that do get some inclusion here, the permanent wavers. Presented in the form of dialogue. A veritable who's who of our cultural icons.And, if you're a writer for the Rolling Stone, that's a tremendous entree into the rarefied world we all know perhaps not intimately, and would like to enter. Imagine being able to meet your idol. Even a short encounter encounter can turn into an adventure, if you're hanging out with Motley Crue, and two band members get marched away in handcuffs, or the wife of a bluesman who cannot distinguish between perception and reality makes a ridiculous accusation, and the police get called. Maybe Tom Cruise will take you under his wing and explain Scientology, or perhaps Courtney Love uses you as her personal pin cushion. Beatling o'er the bass, a Starr drummer, those guys who gather no moss, Pinball Wizards, Crocodile Rockers, climbing Plant's Stairway. Ozzy to Orlando. Bloom's flowering self doubt. Cruise control or lack thereof. Life after Love, how Ali Khan fawns fan mania, and puts his fans in trance, how dangerous it can be to perform music in certain parts of the world. Cher and cockroaches. Eight years to make a famous song, and many songwriters to make it number one. Mindreading with Britney. Success, excess, demon wrestling. Checking outrageous facts. Cockblocking copy editors. Some still haven't found what they're looking for. Sometimes you just want a girl who will sit on a bottle. All of life is here. Even aliens. Don't ask. Not everyone successfully wrestles their demons. The one thing that I felt lacking was the Index. I wanted to look up Ali Khan again, p331. Almost no one mentioned in the book is mentioned in the Index. I suggest you highlight or bookmark what you may wish to refer to again. Sometime ago, I looked up the most sampled artists. Rick James was one of the top 3, along with Parliament eg.Mothership Connection, and was famously sampled by MC Hammer. I found the Rick James vignettes fascinating, how drugs influence every decision he makes,an excellent and somewhat poignant peek into the murky mind of an addict. This would make a great coffee table book. I read the epilogue several times. Derive your self esteem from within not from other people's opinions. If you are like me you may have some attention deficient friends, and this book with its short vignettes provides great talking points. You may also find yourself googling some of the more memorable yet less familiar names. As far as other Strauss books go, certainly get The The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists, if you don't already have it, with its faux black leather binding, and a red string bookmark, it's the bible of seduction. The closer you look the more you can see its principles at work here.
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WHAT THIS BOOK IS,
By Michael K. - Published on Amazon.com
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After reading about this book all over the gossip blogs and magazines, I got my hands on a copy. The good news is that I literally could not put it down--it was surprisingly addictive. But there are a few things you need to know before buying. Most importantly, if you are looking for a book that is a salacious tell-all filled with gossip about the stars, which some blogs have marketed this book as, this is not the book for you.That said, this is something much more unique: Because unlike the reporters for Us Magazine or TMZ etc., Strauss is not compiling these stories second-hand or basing an article off two sentences exchanged with a celebrity on the red carpet. In most cases, he has literally imbedded himself in the life of a rock star or rapper or famous actor. And he has spent days, weeks, and more with them--flying in helicopters to shows, sleeping in tour busses, drinking in hotel rooms until sunrise, and watching them as they go through the ups and downs of fame. What he does in this book is take each one of those experiences, and selects usually just one or two moments from all that research: typically a moment that captures his subject as the person really is, behind the façade and the hype. It's like seeing stars naked and without makeup, and at its best is a window into their soul. It's a testament to Strauss' reportage, how after reading just a three-page interview, you feel like you know the complete personality of the person. Other times, though, the scenes are just funny. Each interview--though these read more like mini-plays than interviews--is loosely connected to the one before it or after it. So although one has the urge to just skip around and find the interesting artists here, the book is best read front to back in sequence. And here's the main thing then to be aware of before you buy this book: It is ultimately a book about people, not celebrities. Although I wasn't familiar with probably half of the people in here, I read their sections with as much interest as I read sections on Neil Young and Timothy Leary and the Beatles, sometimes even more. In short, this is a very unique book: it is not really a book about celebrity culture. And although it contains a lot of musicians, it's not really a book about music. I think maybe it is a book about one reporter, and his twenty-year quest to understand human nature and what makes people tick--and ultimately, to understand himself. 32 of 34 people found the following review helpful
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Celebrity Seduction,
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This is the kind of book that's great for the plane, the bathroom, and the subway. The sections are super-short, and each has a beginning, middle, and end. You can sit down and read one, or you can read the whole thing back to front over the course of a few days.What I liked about this book is the author's curiosity. He seems to get more out of the stars he interviews than any other journalist I've ever read before. And he has the guts to challenge Tom Cruise about Scientology and ask Kenny G if he's ever done any drugs. I definitely need to read the Game next, because there is clearly a seduction process at work here. Here were a few of the moments that stood out to me: Snoop Dogg, and the author's experience shopping for Pampers and barbecue sauce with him. Brian Wilson, when he forgets he's doing an interview and starts talking about all the drugs he's done. Motley Crue, and their unintentionally hilarious responses to a lawyer who's trying to censor their book The Dirt. Ozzy Osbourne on his wife: "Half of Ozzy is Sharon, you know . . . She hasn't got a figure like Pamela Anderson, but I don't care because she's my wife and I love her more than anything in the world." The brutally honest Trent Reznor and Marilyn Manson sections. The author's experiences with editors at The New York Times. Johnny Cash on a near-death experience: "There was that wonderful light that I was going into. It was awesome, indescribable-- beauty and peace, love and joy-- and then all of a sudden there I was again, all in pain and awake. I was so disappointed." Strauss asks him why he was disappointed and Cash responds: "You know, I used to think only of life. But when I was that close to losing it, I realized it wasn't anything to worry about when that does happen." And so much more. There's a lot in here. And along the way, you sort of absorb an education not just about the last hundred years of popular music, but there's a last section that's worth the price of the book alone, where the author examines all the interviews and draws from them a dozen lessons on how we can learn from them to live a happy life (unlike some of the people in the book who meet tragic ends and give the book its cynical yet strangely reassuring title). 16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
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Reinventing the anthology...,
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I thought this was a new book from Neil Strauss. And it is. But is also something genius that I wasn't aware of before reading it. (Full disclosure: I used to work at a weekly paper with the author, who sent me a copy, but I promise that has not influenced this review.) It is a literal reinvention of the timeworn genre of the journalist anthology, covering twenty years of Neil's reporting for The New York Times and Rolling Stone mostly, before he became a "famed pickup artist." As a writer myself who has conducted many interviews, I never wanted to do an anthology, mostly because I've never read a good one that I could read all the way through without getting tired of the writer or feeling like half of it was past its sell-by date or scraping the bottom of the barrel, except for maybe Psychotic Reactions & Carburetor Dung. But Neil has managed to remix all his work, and create the ultimate concept album, with ten ambitious tracks. I have a feeling that this idea--short snippets of interviews boiled down to only the most interesting parts and then linked together into a quasi-narrative--is going to be ripped off by a lot of other journalists. And I, for one, welcome that.
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