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    <body><![CDATA[Whether you like Frank Zappa's music or not (of course you do), I can't recommend this book enough...it is Hilarious (note the capital &quot;H&quot;)...he had a terrific perspective on the world, and the most perfect sense of humor.  I want to read it again just thinking about it.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a brilliant and very funny book. It has great insights into the current state of America, music, politics, televangelism, and much more. The biography of Zappa is only a small part of the book. The rest is devoted to his thought on various issues, and deserves reading. An excellent read!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I greatly enjoyed the first part of this book. Zappa’s humorous look at his early years and musical experiences is entertaining and somewhat informative. As the book progresses, though, it becomes more of a series of rants against his various critics and pet peeves. Several of Zappa’s associates...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48485616">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Made my way about a third through this years ago; finally picked it up and started over. Finished! Now it's out of my &quot;stack.&quot;<br/><br/>Here's a quote:<br/><em>I suggest we learn how to take anything bad that happens to us and <strong>polarize</strong> it. Instead of being overwhelmed by a negative event, d...</em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41957778">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Look, I love Zappa.  I think the world would be a better place if he'd survived to see the Bush administration...and suitably roasted it as he did Reagan's presidency.  But even I get sick of him pushing his political theories (&quot;practical conservatism&quot;) for over a third of the book...espec...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73527805">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Music is the best, and Zappa's music is among the best. What a shame then that most people know him for his reputation for being outspoken, for defending the right to swear on a record and for recording smutty lyrics. That was just the day job. Zappa wasn't interested in fashion, and so he was not t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21180805">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book so long ago.<br/><br/>It belonged to my boyfriend, Michael Schneider.  We were on a road trip from New Orleans to Milwaukee, where he grew up.  We were going to visit his family.  I was meeting his family for the first time.  We had car trouble and ended up getting stuck in Effing...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18120001">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Regarding my thoughts on Zappa and his excellent ouerve, see my review of Kelly Fisher Lowe's book.<br/><br/>This autobiography/polemic makes for a zestier read, although the last 50-90 pages of it descend rapidly through stages of acerbic wit from critical observation to rant to diatribe to scree...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16424131">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am a Frank Zappa fan, in a big way. This was the first that I had read about him, when I was in High School. <br/>The book has a great way of keeping the reader constantly enthralled. There are little pictures scattered throughout the text that show some of the scenes being described. There are m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15107351">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[When I discovered the music of Frank Zappa &amp; the Mothers of Invention way back in 1970, I wasn't ready for it.  W/in a few mnths I was all about it.  I was 16 &amp; this was, indeed, the music that got me really excited.  It was experimental, it was rock'n'roll, it had some politics, it had some satire,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14744654">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This could actually be my favourite book of all time. It's just...amazing. I first read this as someone who hadn't even [b]heard of[/b] Frank Zappa, and I fell in love with it. I've read it at least 4 times since, now a fan of Frank Zappa, and it has never failed to amaze me. Absolutely amazing. Som...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41691610">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Frank said books made him sleepy but he was glad they existed.  This is the story of a true original.  To state the obvious, Frank Zappa was a fearless artist who lived free of the conditions of worth that imprison most people.  This way of living coupled with sheer creative genius to provide a body...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77528500">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not so much a book as a &quot;conflicted document,&quot; perhaps.  Zappa wasn't going to write an actual autobiography;  nor did he necessarily have the patience to serve as a subject for a biographer (nor would his aims probably have consistently aligned with a proper biographer's).  So this book h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12683499">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[amusing as hell. the second part of the book gets a little slower as he recounts some of his political life.  Zappa himself is amusing but the people he surrounds himself with are the really eccentric ones]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 22 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Funny stories.  I don't know too much about Zappa, so this is good.  This book is written by him.  He's definitely opinionated and toward the end gets a little political.  The ending was, in my opinion, abrupt.  Not a terrible book overall.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Though the last 1/4 of the book is nothing but a long tirade against the PMRC (among other things), the preceding text more than makes up for it. Though there's a picture of his family, he gives very little information about his parents and nothing (not even names) for his siblings. However, you wil...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1223637">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="13988785">
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    <body><![CDATA[This starts a an autobiography, covering the usual childhood stuff, FZ's early bands and projects, and hilarious road stories. The later chapters are more focused on FZ's theories about music, politics, religion, and culture.  I have to admit that I don't really understand the parts on music composi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13988785">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Play with mercury as a child, become a genius]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My man Frankie, telling it like it is.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Died way too soon]]></body>
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