The Long Hard Road Out of Hell
by Marilyn Manson, Neil Strauss
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Author: Marilyn Manson, Neil StraussEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1999-04-01
ISBN: 0060987464
Number of pages: 288
Publisher: HarperEntertainment
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Book Review: The road out
Summary: 4 Stars
The title says it all. For anyone looking to answers as to where the movement came from to where it's going, read this book.
It's almost a coping biography that I'm sorry to say I loaned out and have never seen again.
Summary of The Long Hard Road Out of Hell
From the world's most controversial rock star comes his shocking, confessional and revealing life story. In The Long Hard Road Out of Hell,?Marilyn Manson candidly and vividly recounts his metamorphosis from a frightened Christian schoolboy into the most feared and revered celebrity in America.One doesn't usually think of rock stars as insightful, but, against all odds, glam-trash superstar Marilyn Manson has written a book that is actually an intelligent look at growing up. This autobiographical bildungsroman brings out the creepiest aspects of childhood, conveying the terror and fascination that young Marilyn (then called Brian) felt when looking through his grandfather's pornography, getting his first French kiss, and being taunted by the girls he wanted to "date." Manson has the benefit of having grown up as an outcast and loser and then having become a star without forgetting what he went through. This gives him an incredibly broad perspective, which he brings to bear on his ordinary life in order to convey the more potent and frightening moments that shaped him into the pale-skinned weirdo that the Christian Right loves to hate. Best of all, Manson is shockingly honest, and portrays himself as occasionally stupid, self-centered, over-sensitive, ignoble, and, mostly, highly fallible and human. It's a long way from the auto-hagiographies that other stars have written, and it's easily one of the best reads in celebrity bio. --James DiGiovanna
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