I often avoid reading autobiographies by artists because they're generally - clearly ghostwritten (does anyone actually think that Snooki or The Situation can actually read, much less sit down long enough to write a whole, more than 5 page, book?)
- so self-serving they make me nauseous (Kardashian Konfidential anyone? Like the Kardashians have kept anything confidential at this point.)
- written by someone I flat out don't care about, or who is way too young to be writing a reflection on their life (I'm looking at you Miley Cyrus, on both counts.)
- don't actually get into the stuff you'd want to read about (I'm thinking of you, Katharine Hepburn. Glossing over Bogey was lame.)
And man is it. It starts with a quote from Upton Sinclair's novel, The Jungle. About 50 pages in I thought "ghostwritten" but I did some digging and, you know what? Duff's a pretty bright dude. He writes regular columns for Seattle Weekly and a financial column for Playboy.com. Seriously.
A few highlights from the book:
