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Title: The Andy Warhol Diaries
ISBN: 0446391387
Author:
Andy Warhol
Pat Hackett
Publicate Date: 1991-01-01
Publish: 1991-01-01
List Price: $29.99
Average Customer Rating: 4.5
Format: Paperback
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1: Best Toilet Book Ever
Not a book to read cover to cover, but for dipping into while sitting on the can (for example), it's great. Portrait of New York scene is fascinating, especially as you watch AIDS creep into the picture. You also get a sense of what Andy Warhol was like as a person who had to deal with all of the daily things that everyone has to deal with.
In a weird way, Andy Warhol was the Samuel Pepys of New York.
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2: couldn't stop reading it...
somehow the tone, pacing and repetition of names, places and events gets into you and one finds oneself unable to put this book down...I was sorry when it ended...there aren't any truly major revelations to be gleaned
from reading about the openings, parties, discos, etcetera which are featured on every page of this quite large paperback edition...it just grabs you and the narrative voice keeps flowing along...the mundane details of the day take on a new importance and the rich & famous are often skewered by the diarist's pen...highly recommended!
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3: Comprehensive and a long read....
Yes, I know it was narrowed down from 20,000 pages (what a job in itself) but its going to take me forever to finish this book. It's not a book you can breeze through. You're in for the long haul with this one. I'm not a fan of Warhol's work but I love the scene of the 60's, 70's & 80's and this book is definitely an insight to what was happening during those times in the theater & art world.
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4: warhol's thoughts in the disco & business eras
the Andy Warhol Diaries. 900 pages. 1976-1987. the closest look ever at warhol's actual thought processes, opinions & speech pattern. Not the shy,. fumbling public affectation of decades of interviews. Actual day to day diary entries dictated by andy of the last 12 years of his life. backdrop: the 70s disco/studio 54 era; then the 80s art/business explosion & various losses in andy's personal life. Anyone who lived through these years, particularly in nyc and /or the nightlife and art worlds, will find so many events they recall in their memory. Warhol'd depictions of friends & various celebrities are candid, frank, brutal, humorous. This is the closest you will ever get to Andy's real feelings thoughts tone & expression. Its a bit of a committment- it must be read chronologically, it took me just over a month to read all 900 pages. but it was vastly rewarding & the insight into the real warhol is priceless; also if you were alive in this time you will reflect upon your own journey during 1976-1987. the portraits of just halston, bianca jagger & basquiat drawn alone are worth the 900 pages. rating: A
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5: Just Read It Again!
I got this book as a gift, right after it was published in the late eighties. Since then, I've read & re-read it more times then I can count. It's just as much fun on the umpteeth read as it was on the first.
The entire Mick-Jerry-Bianca-Halston-Studio 54 entries are hilarious. It wouldn't bother me a bit if his diary was published in its entirety someday. I'd read all of the doggone 20,000 pages!
It was shocking when Andy died unexpectedly in 1987. Every time I read the book, it's like a clock ticking in my head as time, unbeknownst to him, runs out, and far too soon.
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