oh morrissey… so much to answer for…

i LOVE the smiths. i’d force my family to read their lyrics at my funeral. but god morrissey is so verbose, obviously. the first 250 pgs are quite good. he is a terrific writer and is great at painting a picture, but everything post smiths break up (which happens pg 200 btw) is so boring. frustratingly he does not discuss marr & his writing process, nor much of smiths life in general. he’s more focused on the press hating him. i did enjoy him discussing his literature and bands he loved. but when he’s in his solo era he describes EVERY. show. somehow he is so egotistical but so self-loathing at the same time. and you can’t take anything he says as fact either (i absolutely do not believe he was asked to be in friends, or any acting gig for that matter, which he apparently all “declined.”) it was an exhausting read. that being said when i was in to it, his style was very entertaining! i lolled many times. i would suggest moz take up being a novelist, but i guess he is too self-important for that.