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Dino: Living High in the Dirty Business of Dreams (Hardcover)

by Nick Tosches (Author)
3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)

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  • Hardcover: 572 pages
  • Publisher: Doubleday (Jun 1992)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0385262167
  • ISBN-13: 978-0385262163
  • Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 16.3 x 4.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,100,785 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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2.0 out of 5 stars Disagree with everyone else, 6 Dec 2004
By A Customer
This review is from: Dino: Living High in the Dirty Business of Dreams (Paperback)
I've read this book but totally disagree with the other reviewers. The author spoilt this completely for me. he just tries too hard to make Dean Martin cool and misses the entire point: the reader already knows that Dean Martin was cool. what I wanted to know is what happened and how, not why. Sorry to be the odd one out, but I've read lots of biographies and eveyr ow and then an author will destroy the subject for me. this is one such occassion.
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12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars VIVA LAS DINO!, 13 Feb 2002
By Paula Lees "ladybrum" (Birmingham, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dino: Living High in the Dirty Business of Dreams (Paperback)
Absolutely fantastic! A must read book for everyone who has heard of Dean Martin (and let's face it there can't be many people who haven't). Think you may know all there is about Dean and the Rat Pack?, then think again after reading this book. Mr Sinatra, big chief with the Mafia? think again. Dean had just as much power if not more. It takes you right back to the very beginnings, through the adventures, the Rat Pack Years and towards his eventual reclusiveness. (Oh, did I forget about the broads and the booze!!!)

A real stunner of a story which you must read soon. Buy this book now.

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11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The drinks, the broads, the celebrity roasts!!!, 15 Jan 1999
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This review is from: Dino: Living High in the Dirty Business of Dreams (Paperback)
Dino ? Living High in the Dirty Business of Dreams

Nick Tosches

Dino is an extraordinary blend of cod-Chandler thriller and American social history. Tosches chronicles the rise of Dean Martin from gangster-ridden Steubenville to his heyday in gangster-ridden Vegas. The divorces, drinks, celebrity-roast shows of the 70s are all laid bare. Dino, a man seemingly unhindered by intellectual and emotional content, rode the showbiz rollercoaster with more concern for the glass in his hand than his friends, family or self-esteem. The book is as incisive a portrait of the struggle of Italian-Americans as it is of Dino‚s struggle to stay solvent or simply cling to the bar. A joy to read and a must for all lounge afficiandos.

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