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Originally Posted by Bre
Highly recommend "Marching Powder" by Rusty Young. It's a biography about a man in a South American prison and it is a fabulous book, very confronting though I'm not sure I would read it again. I've bought it as a gift for two people in the last year
Anyone got any good auto/ biography recs.?
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Biography is one of my favorite genres. Some of the more memorable ones I've read lately are-
Passionate Nomad, The Life of Freya Stark (can't remember the author's name) Freya Stark was an explorer in the early 20th century who mapped a good portion of the middle east for the British in a time where women didn't travel by themselves.
Thing of Beauty, which was about Gia Carrangi - It's an interesting history of the fashion industry in the 70's & 80's.
Take the Long Road Home, by Susan Lydon - Its an autobiography by this woman who was a rock journalist and one of the founders of Rolling Stone magazine. It's basically a drug recovery memoir, as she gets heavily into the dope scene in New York - its a really depressing read but really good and shows the dark side of drug addiction (there is no glamourization of drug addiction in this book at all).
