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A Misfit's Manifesto: The Sociological Memoir of a Rock & Roll Heart
by
Donna Gaines
Gaines is a self-described "bourbon-guzzling, pill-popping, penis-addicted, workaholic, tattooed Jew" with a Ph.D. and a pistol permit. "A Misfit's Manifesto" is about living with the contradictions. This is how she did it, and found God in all the unlikely places--like Ramones songs.
Paperback, 387 pages
Published
April 15th 2007
by Rutgers University Press
(first published March 4th 2003)
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I am a misfit. I have a rock n roll heart, but this book was an EPIC FAIL on both the music and memoir fronts. This fact was totally disappointing to me because I really, really, really enjoy reading books on both subjects equally as much. My main beef with this book was that it read more like an autobiography of Ms. Gaines life; with minute, inconsequential details, that as a reader I could have given a rat’s ass about.
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In her intelligent study TEENAGE WASTELAND, Donna Gaines asserts that the emptiness of American suburban culture, not drugs or individual pathology, is to blame for adolescent suicide—a national epidemic at the time of the book’s publication over a decade ago. Gaines’ argument, drawn from Emile Durkheim, was and is certainly worth repeating; however, as a one-size-fits-all diagnosis and nostrum, it works no better than the marijuana-and-mental-illness model of teenage suicide still in vogue in s...more
Ughh! This book took me forever! No wonder it was only $3!
I hate giving bad reviews, but with this one, I must. This memoir went all over the place.
I enjoyed the personal stories of being an awkward adolescent but it quickly lost me following her high school days. There was no flow, no direction, and towards the middle of the book I pretty much had great disdain for the author which is never a good thing when reading someone's bio.
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I hate giving bad reviews, but with this one, I must. This memoir went all over the place.
I enjoyed the personal stories of being an awkward adolescent but it quickly lost me following her high school days. There was no flow, no direction, and towards the middle of the book I pretty much had great disdain for the author which is never a good thing when reading someone's bio.
And in case you also, were thinking of readin...more
I skimmed it. Not great. How do you get around mentioning the recovery thing? I remember when that Aerosmith song came out and every lyric was a program slogan. Reviewers who had never been court mandated to AA thought it was a brilliant invention. I've had crazy diverse experiences in The Rooms, wonder what I'll do with that - the rule used to be to just not mention it at all. Ever. But then we wouldn't have Sober House, which was top drawer must see appointment television.
Not great, not even sure why it worthy of being made into a book
I wanted to like this book more than I could. Donna Gaines is definitely an interesting woman with a fascinating life. I bought the book based on all her Joey Ramone talk. The last chapter was "spiritual" and made it hard to finish. It's a decent memoir filled with interesting rock tidbits, but I understand why it was on the sale rack at Barnes and Noble.
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This book ROCKS! I guess it's because i am a misfit myself and i also have a Rock N Roll heart.
I had a hard time getting into this book. In fact, I haven't finished it.
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