fate, or something like itmarmalade_jackJanuary 8 2004, 06:28:38 UTC
Hmmmm, that's an interesting thought, wanting to hear about people on both sides of the personality spectrum. I think I must be the same, and it's also the reason why I like to read a biography sometimes; to hear someone else's story. I like to hear about the hidden things, the things underneath the surface, and the trail they've left.
I think I'd like to read this, at least in part because most of the best biographies I've read have been about people I hadn't thought too much about. A friend I haven't seen in years used to buy his wife the wackiest, most un-her, bio he could find for xmas, and she generally loved them. She spent 20 minutes telling me about the bio of Snoop Dog once.
Re: fate, or something like iturbandeliriumJanuary 8 2004, 14:25:44 UTC
Hah, now there's someone I hadn't thought to read about yet. That's a good idea, picking out the ones you assume you won't enjoy. Probably widen your horizons twice as fast.
Re: fate, or something like itmarmalade_jackJanuary 8 2004, 14:46:07 UTC
My friend found it endlessly amusing how fascinated she would become--either positively or negatively--by the people she'd read about, but she almost always took it very seriously. As I recall she had even gone out and bought a handful of gangsta rap discs after reading Snoop Dog's biography, which she apparently listened to with single-minded focus. =)
I have to admit that it depends on who's writing the biography, but I can remember reading bios of General George Patton and President Harry Truman, and being fascinated despite the fact that I didn't necessarily think I would have liked them as people. Patton especially.
In many ways I think the bio of Truman was the best bio I've ever read.
Re: fate, or something like itwrittenkithJanuary 8 2004, 19:36:12 UTC
People's lives are worth taking seriously...love her thoroughness.
I always had a republican impression from Gore Vidal, but I saw him talking on the Charlie Rose show a while ago, and that man was effin awesome. Now I know I'll find one of his historical, biography-like fiction books. His current affair books seem interesting too, I just got Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace. We'll see.
Just goes to show how silly impressions can be and how far I have to go in horizon-widening.
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I think I'd like to read this, at least in part because most of the best biographies I've read have been about people I hadn't thought too much about. A friend I haven't seen in years used to buy his wife the wackiest, most un-her, bio he could find for xmas, and she generally loved them. She spent 20 minutes telling me about the bio of Snoop Dog once.
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I have to admit that it depends on who's writing the biography, but I can remember reading bios of General George Patton and President Harry Truman, and being fascinated despite the fact that I didn't necessarily think I would have liked them as people. Patton especially.
In many ways I think the bio of Truman was the best bio I've ever read.
~J
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I always had a republican impression from Gore Vidal, but I saw him talking on the Charlie Rose show a while ago, and that man was effin awesome. Now I know I'll find one of his historical, biography-like fiction books. His current affair books seem interesting too, I just got Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace. We'll see.
Just goes to show how silly impressions can be and how far I have to go in horizon-widening.
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