Bob Woodward
Paperback | Pages: 460 pages Rating: 3.7 | 2080 Users | 151 Reviews
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| Title | : | Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi |
| Author | : | Bob Woodward |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 460 pages |
| Published | : | May 22nd 1989 by Faber & Faber (first published 1984) |
| Categories | : | Biography. Nonfiction. Biography Memoir. Culture. Film |
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Okay, so I knew that John Belushi did a lot of coke, but what I didn't realize was that he did, like, ALL of the coke. Sounds like just about every gram of blow that was shipped to the US in the late 70s and early 80s found its way into Belushi's system, one way or another. This guy did more nose candy than all of Weimar Germany, and they did a whole hell of a lot of coke in Weimar Germany. No one sets out to have their life story become a cautionary tale, but if this isn't, I'm not too sure what is. The book is well written and compelling, and also serves as a "who's who" of Hollywood drug use during that time period (De Niro, Robin Williams, Dan Akroyd, Ed Begley Jr., et al). Super tragic stuff.Specify Books Concering Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi
| Original Title: | Wired |
| ISBN: | 0571141641 (ISBN13: 9780571141647) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://www.worldcat.org/wcidentities/lccn-n50-111 |
| Characters: | John Belushi |
| Setting: | United States of America |
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I guess Bob Woodward's talent does not lie in constructing compelling or readable prose, but in digging for and collecting details. This is very apparent in this documentation of the years leading up to John Belushi's death. The dry, plodding style, a reading of the facts, may lend itself well to a political investigation, where the facts themselves are the drama. But when discussing an interesting man's life, the effect of this method is to take what may have been a good yarn, dissect it, andIf you ever want your kids to stay away from drugs, it might be a good idea to hand them this...Knowing that Belushi died a seedy death from acute toxicity due to cocaine and heroin, it came as no surprise to me that he did drugs. What did come as a shock was just how many he did - so many that I'm surprised that I wasn't high just from reading about it, and the real shock came to be not that he died so young, but that he managed to last as long as he did (especially considering his last 2 month
Maybe the ultimate cautionary tale and, at the most basic, such a sad story.
Hooper: Mr. Vaughn, what we are dealing with here is a perfect engine, an eating machine. It's really a miracle of evolution. All this machine does is swim and eat and make little sharks, and that's all. -JAWS (1975)I was thinking about this quote about half way through the reading of Wired. It is the perfect quote to describe John Belushi, without the "make little sharks" line. Belushi was beyond an addict, he was a drug shark. All he did was move around and take drugs. Reading this book is an
I've always been fascinated by the life of John Belushi, primarily because I look just like the man, so of course I would eventually read this book. What I found is a tragic tale of loneliness and addiction that probably could have been stopped if anyone had truly gotten to know the man, or if his close friends had done something just a bit sooner. The truly frightening thing I found as I read was exactly how much I do have in common with John. It scared me. Which, of course, is exactly what it
Fantastic adventure through the roller coaster of a life that was John Belushi. Written a few years after his death (mid 1980s), Woodward gets a lot more candid information from the people who were around Belushi in the last years of his life than a writer today would be able to, given the concerns those big names granting the interviews (i.e. Akroyd, Spielberg, De Niro, etc.) would have about their comments going viral. I was fascinated from start to finish.
Man, THIS is what I'm talking about. Great summer read. Great read for anyone with addicts in their family or friend-circles (or self). Straight-forward, non-mythologizing, fascinating, horrifying. I'm so glad I came across this beat-up paperback in a record store...only 75 cents and it's the best thing I've read in weeks. As far as I can tell, it's the only non-Washington thing Bob Woodward ever published.
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