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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 787.87166092
EAN: 9780060988531
ISBN: 0060988533
Label: HarperEntertainment
Manufacturer: HarperEntertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 272
Publication Date: October 01, 2005
Publisher: HarperEntertainment
Release Date: October 18, 2005
Sales Rank: 616175
Studio: HarperEntertainment
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Product Description:
Former guitarist for Jane's Addiction and The Red Hot Chili Peppers, superstar, sex symbol, and reality television favourite Dave Navarro shares a year in his life in the Hollywood hills, featuring stories and strips from his infamous photo booth.
When Dave Navarro decided to open the doors of his house in the Hollywood hills to the chaos of the valley below, the only rule was, 'You come in the house, you get in the photo booth.' The result is a diary, a sociology experiment, a documentary of Hollywood, and an exercise in exhibitionism. Caught on film are strippers, Kurt Loder, Marilyn Manson, pizza delivery boys, Rose McGowan, Keanu Reeves, record executives, Scott Ian, Billy Corgan, hookers, Flea, Billy Zane, drug dealers, Angelyne, Leonardo DiCaprio, the cleaning lady, Leif Garrett, Natalie Imbruglia, and everyone else who came into the house. Some are zany, some inebriated, naked, hamming it up, looking beautiful, or looking ugly – the photo booth tells no lies.
Accompanying the strips are hilarious stories, musings, tell–all anecdotes, and other glimpses into the lifestyle of one of the most decadent rockstars of our time.
This chronicle of a year in Navarro's life is also a gritty portrait of his descent into drug use and self–destructiveness, and his struggle to find meaning.
Designed by the mad genius who also produced Manson's, Mötley Crüe's, and Mankind's books, Don't Try This at Home is a visual masterpiece, a celebrity exposé, and a shocking, hilarious, and irresistible read.
Amazon.com Review:
Andy Warhol was so enamored with Polaroids that he made special arrangements with the company to purchase all the overstock film of a discontinued model of camera. A similar photographic fetish is the organizing principle of Don't Try This at Home. For kicks, rocker and author Dave Navarro installed a carnival-grade photo booth in his L.A. home. The book documents a year's worth of visitors to Navarro's pad who all stepped into the booth to get their mug shots snapped.
The resulting dispatch from Hell is as hard to draw one's eyes from as a twelve car pile-up. Intermingled with a parade of rock stars, models, prostitutes, drug dealers, pizza delivery guys, and housecleaners are a series of observations and interviews with Dave and his co-author Neil Strauss. Strauss, co-author of other tomes for Jenna Jameson, Marilyn Manson, and Motley Crue, operates less as an editor than as a ringmaster to this debauched thing rock stars call a lifestyle.
Don't Try This At Home is one rollicking contact high of a memoir. Just set it on the coffee table at your home and watch how quickly it snares its readers. -–Ryan Boudinot
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There are a lot of better rock autobiograhies out there at the moment. This one is very unfocused and you do not really get to understand what it really is about. The photos from his booth are interesting though but also do not make sense. A shame.
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Navarro hits a proverbial home run with this gripping account of how he had it all, then battled addiction and how the harsh glare of the spotlight exposed his shortcomings as a musician and lyricist.
Dave is a suriviah ... which is a term I've coined (patent pending) that combines the raw intensity of "survivor" with the ecumenical transcendence of "messiah."
Of Dave's fans that can read, many will rejoice in reading this book and find themselves closer to Dave then they've ... Read More
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this is gotta be the most boring book i've ever read or tried to read (i got 3/4 of the way through it before i had to quit)i was suprised it sucked so bad because i really like neil strauss but i guess if all you have to write about is a washed up heroin addict that wont leave his house because he broke his glass unicorn then he did his best it surprises me that dave would want anyone to know how boring his life is hes suposed to be a rock star but he just sits in his house for a year (literaly)shooting ... Read More
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I was excited when I first read an excerpt from this book in Rolling Stone, only to have it come out a few years later (legal troubles prob). In the end, it is a bland and boring read about a self-absorbed loser whose life is really not interesting. There is no insight into anything, it is a stale narrative with nothing revealed.
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very interesting and you want to keep on reading hard to put down,many photos included.
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