A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
by Dito Montiel
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Author: Dito MontielEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Published)
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 2006-08-08
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 208
Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press
Book Reviews of A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
Book Review: Great Book and Movie.
Summary: 5 Stars
I saw the movie before I purchased the book. I really enjoyed the movie and I had to buy the book to make the comparison. While I found them to be quite different I really enjoyed both in their places. The book was scattered at times but always honest. You really get a sense that you are hearing about Dito's life with out a filter, the flaws as well as the triumphs. I would recommend this book to anyone between 16 and 60 (especially if you've ever lived in New York).
Summary of A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
Orlandito "Dito" Montiel grew up wild in the streets of Astoria, Queens, pulling pranks for Greek and Italian gangsters and confessing at the Church of the Immaculate Conception, gobbling hits of purple mescaline and Old English, sneaking into Times Square whore houses, and at times getting near much graver trouble. Entering adulthood in the eighties, he escapes into the underground and punk cultures of Manhattan.This is the story of a young man?s hunger for experience, his dawning awareness of the bigger world across the bridge, and the loyalties that bind him to the flawed and desperate "Saints" that have guided his life: Bob Semen, Frank the dog walker, Jimmy Mullen, Cherry Vanilla, Allen Ginsberg, and all the junkies and insaniacs like Santos Antonios who said, "Now Dito remember, in life you gotta be crazy."
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