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It changed my view of celebrity and of people in general. I look at so many of these people and all the rest in showbiz-land totally different because of this book. Tom Cruise punching a microwave, Jay Leno so much funnier than I'd ever seen him on the Tonight Show that it lead me to purchase his hysterical lost autobiography, Joni Mitchell an egotistical bleep. The range of celebrities covered here will appeal to a wide age-range, and even wider if taken for their pure interest as human beings who are just as surprisingly normal as the rest of us, or totally bonkers.

Not a collection of interviews as you might think. It's the best parts of the best interviews edited together like a mix-tape, often segmented together by connection or contrast in theme, splitting the interviews up so that you are not just reading one interview, then the next. You read a segment for a few pages, switch to someone else, and come back to the same people again; not always, but it's mostly like that. I found it to be a nice creative way of putting the book together, and I was thoroughly entertained.


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Everyone Loves You When You're Dead Journeys into Fame and Madness Neil Strauss 9780061543678 Books Reviews

Everyone Loves You When You're Dead is an addictive, guilty pleasure on the surface but much more that underneath. Reading these short interviews, never longer than a couple of pages, gives you insight into many famous lives. These short bursts of interviews, snapshots of one's life really, end up conveying more than entire biographies do. It reminds me of Malcolm Gladwell's book, Blink The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, and the discussion about knowing people. Gladwell contends that you actually know someone better after 5 minutes than you do after 50 years; that first impressions trump our ability to wade through someone else projection of themselves every time.

These short interviews are all interesting, many of them sad, many of them surprising. I particularly liked the Colbert interview, Chuck Berry, Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Jerry Lee Lewis, Loretta Lynn, and others. The Marilyn Manson, Trent Reznor, and Russell Brand interviews were intense, exposing enough make it uncomfortable to read (Especially the Brand interview - skip it). The interviews with Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, and other modern pop stars were profoundly sad . . .

In short, there are over 500 pages guaranteed to entertain you, provoke you, and offend you. The people that Neil interviews do not pull any punches and some of them you will probably want to forget about as soon as you read them. The book accomplishes its goal surprisingly well - the author uses a few minutes of interviews to reveal much about their life. While you may not like the people he chose for the book, and you may not like their answers, you cannot argue that these are real portraits of very real individuals. Be sure and read the epilogue at the end, it sums up the purpose of the book and makes it easy to take away something from it more than the interviews themselves.
I was pleasantly surprised by Everyone Loves You When You're Dead (ELYWYD?). I was expecting a collection of Strauss' interviews over the years, assembled, like every other such book, in some kind of mundane order-- the interview with Madonna, then Gaga, then Bowie, etc.-- I was expecting to read the interviews I was interested in and skip the ones I wasn't.

Thankfully, ELYWYD is so much more than that. The book splices dozens of Strauss' interviews into a narrative so that, unlike most books of interviews, you actually want to read this one cover to cover. The narrative sometimes follows a theme (contrasting different rock stars' views on faith, struggles with addictions, their childhoods, battles with record companies, etc.), and other times explores a particular story (for instance why some members of Pink Floyd don't speak to one another and why Pete Townshend resisted re-forming The Who).

Like most of Strauss' books, this one's a page-turner. I read over 300 pages in one day. The book goes down so easy that it's easy to take for granted how *big* it is, in every sense. It's the condensation of apparently a couple decades worth of rock journalism, and assembling such a crazily entertaining narrative from what must have been thousands of hours of interview tapes must have been no easy task. But as entertaining and fun as the book is, it's also a deep and surprisingly illuminating exploration of fame, art, and ego. It's a major and important book on music, stardom, and, well, the times we live in.

There's a lot more to say, and I'm sure many other reviewers will jump in and say it. Anyone with a serious interest in music or pop culture in general will probably devour Strauss' ELYWYD.
I'm no Neil Strauss fanatic. The Game changed my life and Emergency was a very interesting read. I've never read his rock bios or even his interviews. So ELYWYD was a miss for me. It's become a bathroom book. I was hoping for more of a narrative but there really isn't one, it's just an anthology of mostly bland interviews.

Maybe i'm of a dissenting opinion but i don't find Lady Gaga all that interesting. I think it was a mistake to put her in the book, as nobody will care or even really remember her a decade from now. On top of that, it's just her backstage rambling about her family. Who cares?

The section on Brian Wilson should have been interesting but it's not. All we learn about him is that his wife answers for him a lot because he's done so many drugs that it's impossible for him to complete a thought.

For some reason, Strauss goes on for page after page about what happened to wax sculptures from a closed-down Nashville museum. Again, who cares? They ended up where you'd expect them to end up. Melting in a basement somewhere.

The Who? Who cares?

The guy from Soul Asylum? Who REALLY cares?

The section with Julian Casablancas is pretty funny but there's not much redeeming about this book. And it's long. Strauss phoned it in with this one.
It changed my view of celebrity and of people in general. I look at so many of these people and all the rest in showbiz-land totally different because of this book. Tom Cruise punching a microwave, Jay Leno so much funnier than I'd ever seen him on the Tonight Show that it lead me to purchase his hysterical lost autobiography, Joni Mitchell an egotistical bleep. The range of celebrities covered here will appeal to a wide age-range, and even wider if taken for their pure interest as human beings who are just as surprisingly normal as the rest of us, or totally bonkers.

Not a collection of interviews as you might think. It's the best parts of the best interviews edited together like a mix-tape, often segmented together by connection or contrast in theme, splitting the interviews up so that you are not just reading one interview, then the next. You read a segment for a few pages, switch to someone else, and come back to the same people again; not always, but it's mostly like that. I found it to be a nice creative way of putting the book together, and I was thoroughly entertained.