The Answer My Friend....
October 28th 2006 11:50
I figured on the basis that I wrote about Mr Rubin Carter's life story it would only be fair for me to write about the life story of the man that wrote the song about Mr Carter's life.
Bob Dylan's autobiography would easily be the most interestingly written autobiograhy I have ever read. Which is no surprise, considering some of his lyrics. And like his lyrics, a large amount of thinking is needed to put it together.
He doesn't start it with how he grew up as a kid, it starts as his career did, when he was just recording songs, being advanced a hundred dollars by a record company to do so. Which, to a great degree, makes sense. All the stories told in the book are told in a way which could only be his own. He also writes about how he started to write songs, that it wasn't something that he decided conciously. "I was singing to define the way I felt about the world. I guess it happens to you by degrees. You don't just wake up and decide you need to write songs, especially if you're a singer who has plenty of them and you're learning more every day."
Reading through every event is a interesting experience. He goes into extraordinary detail, speaking poetcially and heartfully about the smallest details about the people around him. Every part of the book reads like a conversation, where you are the listener and he's the talker. But while he lets you see alot of the details, and alot of his surface feeling, so much of him is kept away from the reader, hidden under the words.
I'm looking forward to the second half, which will hopefully be out soon. I also hope that he speaks about his conversion to christianity, though I would understand if he didn't give his reasons. They'd be fairly personal.
JoshZ
Bob Dylan's autobiography would easily be the most interestingly written autobiograhy I have ever read. Which is no surprise, considering some of his lyrics. And like his lyrics, a large amount of thinking is needed to put it together.
He doesn't start it with how he grew up as a kid, it starts as his career did, when he was just recording songs, being advanced a hundred dollars by a record company to do so. Which, to a great degree, makes sense. All the stories told in the book are told in a way which could only be his own. He also writes about how he started to write songs, that it wasn't something that he decided conciously. "I was singing to define the way I felt about the world. I guess it happens to you by degrees. You don't just wake up and decide you need to write songs, especially if you're a singer who has plenty of them and you're learning more every day."
Reading through every event is a interesting experience. He goes into extraordinary detail, speaking poetcially and heartfully about the smallest details about the people around him. Every part of the book reads like a conversation, where you are the listener and he's the talker. But while he lets you see alot of the details, and alot of his surface feeling, so much of him is kept away from the reader, hidden under the words.
I'm looking forward to the second half, which will hopefully be out soon. I also hope that he speaks about his conversion to christianity, though I would understand if he didn't give his reasons. They'd be fairly personal.
JoshZ
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