Mike Doughty

Perhaps my expectations were high. I love Mike Doughty's fabulously jazz-infused poetry, the lyrical element that made Soul Coughing a poetic force, the poetry one still finds in the man's solo efforts. And I had hoped for some sense of the same in this memoir. That was not the case.

The Book of Drugs, while revelatory about an artist whom I admire and whose music I still very much enjoy, was - I'm sorry to say - somewhat dull, lackluster in its crafting and construction. And Doughty's smoldering resentments at his former band-mates, unnecessary litany of women with whom he had sex during that time of his life, and often inexplicable and distantly tangential rambling didn't add to its literary merit.

I get it - the man needed to tell his story - what it was like, what happened, and what it's like now. Perhaps he just didn't need to publish it.
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This book does talk a lot about doing drugs. Mostly how he slept with girls he never would have slept with and how he would go somewhere new and exotic and spend the entire time in the hotel room getting high. I became of fan of Mikes solo work before i found soul coughing. I do enjoy his solo work a little more than soul coughing's catalog of music. This book also discusses how Mike hates his old band and how they made him feel. It was kind of surreal reading about his experience on September 11th while it being the anniversary of September 11th. This book would be a great read for a musician who wants to see some of the good and bad sides of music. This book would probably get an MA rating due to Strong Language, Strong Sexual content, and excessive drug use. The book does end on a good note he talks of being clean and how much better life is now the he is no longer an addict.… (más)

This book does talk a lot about doing drugs. Mostly how he slept with girls he never would have slept with and how he would go somewhere new and exotic and spend the entire time in the hotel room getting high. I became of fan of Mikes solo work before i found soul coughing. I do enjoy his solo work a little more than soul coughing's catalog of music. This book also discusses how Mike hates his old band and how they made him feel. It was kind of surreal reading about his experience on September 11th while it being the anniversary of September 11th. This book would be a great read for a musician who wants to see some of the good and bad sides of music. This book would probably get an MA rating due to Strong Language, Strong Sexual content, and excessive drug use. The book does end on a good note he talks of being clean and how much better life is now the he is no longer an addict.… (más)