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I like Biographies of people who lived interesting lives of all kinds.
Marginally successful people. Reformed degenerates. Criminals. Prison stories.
Respectable folk who have stories to tell.
I know you have read some good ones.
Try these...
"Look me in the eye" by John Elder Robison, funnier than his brother who wrote "Running with Scissors".
"You can't win" by Jack Black - career criminal in SF in the early 1900's
I got more
Marginally successful people. Reformed degenerates. Criminals. Prison stories.
Respectable folk who have stories to tell.
I know you have read some good ones.
Try these...
"Look me in the eye" by John Elder Robison, funnier than his brother who wrote "Running with Scissors".
"You can't win" by Jack Black - career criminal in SF in the early 1900's
I got more
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Re: what are your favorite biographies / memoirs?
Wed, September 10, 2008 - 10:21 AM"Grumbles from the Grave" by Heinlein
"My Problem Child" by Albert Hoffman
The innocents' Abroad" by Mark Twain
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Re: what are your favorite biographies / memoirs?
Fri, September 12, 2008 - 7:51 PMThurber
My Life And Hard Times
