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       My Appetite For Destruction - Steven Adler
       By: Chiprocks1 Date: January 10, 2012, 8:20 pm
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       [center]My Appetite For Destruction (2010)
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       I honestly don't know what to make of My Appetite For
       Destruction. It started off pretty good, but the more I read the
       book, the more suspect I became of who actually wrote this book.
       Early in the book there really was no frame of reference to
       compare to as it was just one voice. But the further you get
       into the book, the more obvious it becomes in that there are two
       different "Steven Adler's" telling the story. I'm not being mean
       here when I say that it's clear which part is the real Adler
       (the one that comes off like a child, incessantly whining and
       blaming everyone for his own problems) and the other voice in
       the book that is coherent with lots of details from the past is
       Lawrence J. Spagnola and it wouldn't shock me at all if it came
       out that he wrote 70% of the book, if not more. How can I tell
       which voice is which? Anything relating to self congratulatory
       back slapping about the numerous chicks he boned, whining or
       "everybody loves me" is Steven. Everything else that is coherent
       is Lawrence.
       I really don't see what the point of the book was to begin with
       because a lot of what we get from "him" is just a rehash of all
       the greatest Guns N' Roses
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       />moments that we already knew about. There isn't anything new
       here. I'm guessing that Adler read The Dirt
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       />by Mötley Crüe
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       />and decided that he too was going to write a book and that he
       will one up The Dirt and make his book the most salacious Rock
       Biography out there. Sorry dude, but the way it's written, Adler
       comes off like a 13 year kid bragging about his first boner.
       It's juvenile and just makes him look pretty stupid and
       desperate for attention. How else do you explain that he thinks
       he is the star of Celebrity Rehab? Okay, if that's something you
       want to hang your hat on...more power to you.
       Yes, the book was a very easy and fast read. But that doesn't
       always translate into a good read. There were some moments that
       were entertaining, but as a whole the book itself was pretty
       weak because he didn't write half the book and the half that he
       did write wasn't all that compelling.
       I don't know if I'd even say this was a Rent for average fans of
       Rock Bio's. I'd go with Slash's
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       book instead
       for your GNR fix. So, this is definitely a Skip. I for one will
       never re-read this book.
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