I've read a lot of bio/autobios. The best one I've read lately was Paul Stanley's (From KISS). He's an interesting, likable guy.
Autobiographies, Whose Have You Read?
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I've read the first 20 pages of a biography on Des Hasler, the former Rugby League player, now coach. It is written by Thomas Keneally, who is a Manly-Warringah supporter.
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Wow, do you just wake up and read until bed time?
So I take it you like to read about historic rulers and monarchs? History was not one of my favourite subjects in school, by the time I could drop it, I did. I'm guessing it was one of yours?
Kurben's list is impressive indeed, especially for a young man. Check out Deej's! Some people love to study history, some science, some actual knowledge. I don't like to study anymore so I watch movies, mostly.Wow, do you just wake up and read until bed time?
I love history, thats true! But mostly i don't read books on a single ruler but more of an epoch in that countrys history. Like the Tudors or the Stuarts when it comes to english Kings. When we get closer to now in time i don't read so many biographesies because the people most often lived in a democracy and then it is difficult to give a portrait of the time without involving more than one person (Hitler and Stalin are obvious exceptions and they didn't live in democraties). But some rulers really made an impression on their time and then a biography can capture the time too. Thats why i havent read a biography on Roosevelt or Churchill because to understand their maneoverings you have to understand England or the US at their time and that would take many more persons so in their case a biography is really just a complement. But i read a lot, thats true, even if i do take breaks for sleeping, working, SKMB and some social life. And it doesn't have to be rulers, read one on Dante, one on Shakespeare (a controversial one), one on Leonardo DaVinci and one on Galileo Galilei.Wow, do you just wake up and read until bed time?
Just a little trivia, Mark Knopfler read Ray Kroc's (McDonald's entrepeneur) autobiography - Grinding It Out, and wrote "Boom Like That" after it. Awesome song.
I've not read it myself but the lyrics in the song tell the gist of it. Kinda makes me want to read it.
I've not read it myself but the lyrics in the song tell the gist of it. Kinda makes me want to read it.
i'm going to san bernardino
ring-a-ding-ding
milkshake mixers
that's my thing, now
these guys bought
a heap of my stuff
and i gotta see a good thing
sure enough, now
or my name's not kroc
that's kroc with a 'k'
like 'crocodile'
but not spelled that way, yeah
it's dog eat dog
rat eat rat
kroc-style
boom, like that
the folks line up
all down the street
and i'm seeing this girl
devour her meat, now
and then i get it, wham
as clear as day
my pulse begins to hammer
and i hear a voice say:
these boys have
got this down
oughtta be a one of these
in every town
these boys have
got the touch
it's clean as a whistle
and it don't cost much
wham, bam
you don't wait long
shake, fries
patty, you're gone
and how about that
friendly name?
heck, every little thing
oughtta stay the same
or my name's not kroc
that's kroc with a 'k'
like 'crocodile'
but not spelled that way, now
it's dog eat dog
rat eat rat
kroc-style
boom, like that
you gentlemen
ought to expand
you're going to need
a helping hand, now
so, gentlemen
well, what about me?
we'll make a little
business history, now
or my name's not kroc
call me ray
like 'crocodile'
but not spelled that way, now
it's dog eat dog
rat eat rat
kroc-style
boom, like that
well we build it up
and i buy 'em out
but, man they made me
grind it out, now
they open up a new place
flipping meat
so i do, too
right across the street
i got the name
i need the town
they sell up in the end
and it all shuts down
sometimes you gotta
be an s.o.b.
you wanna make a dream
reality
competition?
send 'em south
if they're gonna drown
put a hose in their mouth
do not pass 'go'
go straight to hell
i smell that
meat hook smell
or my name's not kroc
that's kroc with a 'k'
like 'crocodile'
but not spelled that way, now
it's dog eat dog
rat eat rat
kroc-style
boom, like that
ring-a-ding-ding
milkshake mixers
that's my thing, now
these guys bought
a heap of my stuff
and i gotta see a good thing
sure enough, now
or my name's not kroc
that's kroc with a 'k'
like 'crocodile'
but not spelled that way, yeah
it's dog eat dog
rat eat rat
kroc-style
boom, like that
the folks line up
all down the street
and i'm seeing this girl
devour her meat, now
and then i get it, wham
as clear as day
my pulse begins to hammer
and i hear a voice say:
these boys have
got this down
oughtta be a one of these
in every town
these boys have
got the touch
it's clean as a whistle
and it don't cost much
wham, bam
you don't wait long
shake, fries
patty, you're gone
and how about that
friendly name?
heck, every little thing
oughtta stay the same
or my name's not kroc
that's kroc with a 'k'
like 'crocodile'
but not spelled that way, now
it's dog eat dog
rat eat rat
kroc-style
boom, like that
you gentlemen
ought to expand
you're going to need
a helping hand, now
so, gentlemen
well, what about me?
we'll make a little
business history, now
or my name's not kroc
call me ray
like 'crocodile'
but not spelled that way, now
it's dog eat dog
rat eat rat
kroc-style
boom, like that
well we build it up
and i buy 'em out
but, man they made me
grind it out, now
they open up a new place
flipping meat
so i do, too
right across the street
i got the name
i need the town
they sell up in the end
and it all shuts down
sometimes you gotta
be an s.o.b.
you wanna make a dream
reality
competition?
send 'em south
if they're gonna drown
put a hose in their mouth
do not pass 'go'
go straight to hell
i smell that
meat hook smell
or my name's not kroc
that's kroc with a 'k'
like 'crocodile'
but not spelled that way, now
it's dog eat dog
rat eat rat
kroc-style
boom, like that