[Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die: Musings from the Road by Willie Nelson rounded up to 2 stars

[Karin]

Well, now, this was a little bit like reading Moby Dick in that the type of writing jumped around (in Moby Dick some of it is written like a script minus all directions, etc etc). It's more or less a memoir, but also a plug for some of his new music (to which he says bite me), includes positive bits by other people (since he wrote that, you know he isn't going to put negative bits by others), jokes, sayings, political ramblings, pro-marijuana rants, lyrics, etc. While he has some songs I liked, I really didn't end up caring for this book. I didn't give it one star because some of the jokes are really funny (but some crasser than I care for). Sometimes it was quite repetitive, where he gives very similar rants, stories, etc (as in the same ones but perhaps not worded exactly the same).

However, if you like books that appear to be written by a stoner (which he sort of is, since he only smokes weed, even if, as he claims, he basically smokes one joint per day--and what happened to the word toke? Is it outdated now?) and/or you are an ardent Willie Nelson fan, then you may like this better than I did.