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    <body><![CDATA[maybe biography month was a bad idea.<br/><br/>its just making me angry at people i used to like. not so much byron - but with him im in love with the mythology, and thats the whole point of byron - you know what youre getting into. but it turns out warren zevon was rather unpleasant, both in the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78132985">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I checked this book out from the library after pianist Michael Wolff mentioned that he had been interviewed for it. I was a huge fan of Zevon's work in the 80s but kind of lost track after a while. After picking up &quot;Mutineer&quot; and &quot;Life'll Kill Ya&quot; on Wolff's suggestion, I kicked ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15354051">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I would have given this book four stars - I'm a big Warren Zevon fan, and it was well-written - but frankly this book depressed the living hell out of me.  Zevon was a train wreck all his life.  I remembered reading an interview with him in Rolling Stone years back about how he quit a bad drinking h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21636278">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A really interesting, but also incredibly difficult book to read. not becasue of the language, or the style of writing, but mainly because of the subject. zevon was unquestionly a genius. but unfortunatley, he was also a complete and utter asshole. he treated the people who loved him like dirt, and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55119101">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Two in a row. Gotta stop reading these bios of asshole musicians. I'm usually pretty good at divorcing the artist from the person, but this book was about 85% loathsome human being and 15% sometime-genius. It might not have been so bad if so many of those closest to him hadn't tolerated Warren Zevon...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53673989">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Just chose this as a little light reading after immersing myself in the Manhattan Project for a month.  Not much I can say that any other review wouldn't tell you.  Zevon's a real asshole and it was hard to read page after page of him mistreating his friends and family. Every fifth page or so, someo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63413208">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A no holds barred oral biography of a talented song-writer and severely flawed human being.  I enjoy Zevon's music, but this book, written at his request by his ex-wife following his death, portrays him as a real bastard.  Self-obsessed, childish, indulgent, manipulative, and for a long time, mental...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28890651">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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