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"Contains some hair-raising anecdotes and some priceless one-liners."
"-- Daily Mail, "Book of the Week
"-- Daily Mail, "Book of the Week
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This quirky and anecdote-driven A-Z compendium celebrates the most outrageous, depraved, tortured and eccentric hellraisers the world has ever seen.
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Outrageous = Really Interesting
12 April 2012
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Author Robert Sellers either has a thing for notorious drunks and dopers or just understands that you have to give the people what they want. Unlike his two previous books that looked into the lives of British and then American actors who were hell raisers and did this in exacting detail with a relatively small number of men, this book is exactly what its title implies. It is truly a "comprehensive compendium of outrageous insobriety". Unlike his previous books, he is not restricting inclusion to just men or just actors. This book's only real qualification for inclusion is that its subjects have taken drinking and outrageous behavior to new extremes.
Here you get to meet the likes of Winston Churchill, Brendan Behan, Courtney Love, Tallulah Bankhead, Errol Flynn, Hank Williams, Spencer Tracy, and Jim Morrison. The list is long and of course you know where this is going.
Sellers does a stellar job of compacting each of his profiles into short narratives that brim with very detailed information. Some of the stuff borders on gross and can be disturbing especially when people manage to survive only to continue to abuse their minds and bodies. Still, I have to concede that this book was nothing less than fascinating assuming you like gossipy items.
Here you get to meet the likes of Winston Churchill, Brendan Behan, Courtney Love, Tallulah Bankhead, Errol Flynn, Hank Williams, Spencer Tracy, and Jim Morrison. The list is long and of course you know where this is going.
Sellers does a stellar job of compacting each of his profiles into short narratives that brim with very detailed information. Some of the stuff borders on gross and can be disturbing especially when people manage to survive only to continue to abuse their minds and bodies. Still, I have to concede that this book was nothing less than fascinating assuming you like gossipy items.
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