by Steven Tyler, Jeremy Davidson
Opening line: “Life is short. Break the rules, forgive quickly, kiss slowly, laugh uncontrollably, and never regret anything that makes you smile.” Reading about rock stars and their insane lives of excess is one of my guilty pleasures. I find the rise to success intriguing and then there are alw...
Although I enjoyed some of their music I had not been an over-the-top Aerosmith fan. When I started this book I knew nothing about Steve Tyler, so everything in the book was a revelation. Mr. Tyler tells his story with apparent honesty, humour and sometimes sorrow. Most definitely a rock’n roll m...
This book gave me a headache every time I picked it up. It's written just the way he talks and had I known that I would have never bothered in the first place because he sounds like an idiot to me whenever he opens his mouth....unless he's singing. I skimmed parts of this because I just couldn't s...
I just could not stay focused on his story. i found many parts hard to comprehend, written in riddles/lyrics. I was lost more than not and just gave up. he is an interesting man and has a greats tory to tell it is just not my time to read it. I quit it after 1/3.
I'm not really sure what most of the reviewers/readers of this book expected. They are complaining about the adolescent, egotistical, drug abusing, sex indulgent lifestyle of a rock star. This was what I already knew about Steven Tyler and pretty much any other hard rocking successful star from hi...
What a trip and a half. Tyler is eloquent in his writing style that still has his trademark pizazz. Hard to follow sometimes with his jumps and run ons like a stream of consciousness Woolf meets Joyce tossed with a little ADD.