Clublife: Thugs, Drugs, and Chaos at New York City's Premier Nightclubs

Clublife: Thugs, Drugs, and Chaos at New York City's Premier Nightclubs
by Rob The Bouncer

Clublife: Thugs, Drugs, and Chaos at New York City's Premier Nightclubs
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Author: Rob The Bouncer
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-08-01
ISBN: 0061123889
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: HarperEntertainment

Book Reviews of Clublife: Thugs, Drugs, and Chaos at New York City's Premier Nightclubs

Book Review: Could (should?) have been better--but still good.
Summary: 3 Stars

Okay, I'm going to unleash some criticism, so let me start thing off first by stating that Rob definitely has writing talent and I enjoyed his book. He does an excellent job portraying the nightclub world as he saw it. The writing is good and sometimes even funny. If you are a guido, a thuggish form of Italian male that Rob definitely despises, then you will either hate this book or love that it puts you and your kind in a momentary limelight.

My main criticism is that I found Rob's stories to be lacking. Or maybe I just bought this book with too high of expectations. I mean come on, you worked in the biggest baddest nightclubs in New York City and these are your best stories? I have friends who work as bouncers and bartenders in some dive bars around the city and they can tell me better stories about the fights and the freaks that they encounter every night. There was also not much dirt spilled about the people around him. A book with nightlife subject matter should have been filled with this kind of juicy stuff. It seemed like Rob was giving us the PG13 rated version of what he really saw. Maybe he didn't want to throw anyone under the bus or maybe the publisher wanted to produce a tame story. Oh yeah, the lists Rob puts together about things like "How you should approach a bouncer" were also kind of lame.

But all in all, it was a good book that I enjoyed. Maybe now that Rob is a published author he can do a sequel that is not so tame.

Summary of Clublife: Thugs, Drugs, and Chaos at New York City's Premier Nightclubs

In Clublife, Rob takes readers on a harrowing tour of the seedy, dangerous, and often deranged world of New York's hottest nightclubs. In the tradition of Kitchen Confidential and The Tender Bar, Clublife is a remarkable memoir of the nightclub business and how drugs, alcohol, troublemakers, and violence conspire against the men clubs enlist to keep it all under control. Brutally honest and filled with incredible tales only a true insider could tell, Clublife gives readers an all-access pass into the seamy subculture of New York nightclub security.

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