The Andy Warhol Diaries by Andy Warhol, Pat Hackett
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Book Reviews of The Andy Warhol Diaries
Book Review: Best Toilet Book Ever
Summary: 5 Stars
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.
Book Review: A stunning look into the life, mind, and times of a master.
Summary: 5 Stars
This answers the question 'What was Andy Warhol REALLY like?' in a way as enigmatic as the man, himself. Most of the entries are startlingly frank, speaking about a woman's dress in the same sentence he speaks about someone snorting coke in a bedroom. As callous and indifferent as he may have seemed, these diaries prove that Andy was truly immersed in the lives of those around him.Book Review: Interesting and entertaining
Summary: 5 Stars
This book highlights the contradictions that were Warhol. He was a winner/loser, daring/timid, a man who was an icon in the drug-crazed 60's and 70's, who never did a nonprescription drug himself. A man who epitimized the 60's generation who hated their parents...but Warhol lived with his mother. Warhol was unique, and that's what make these diaries worth reading.Book Review: 15 mins. and counting...
Summary: 5 Stars
Although lengthy, this was a fun romp through the last days of glam, trashy, disco-era Hollywood. It's a must-read guilty pleasure. I DARE anyone not to laugh out loud at Warhol's dead-pan descriptions. Half of Hollywood still doesn't know whether to laugh or to hide! This is the be-all-end-all for the bedside or coffeetable.Book Review: fun!
Summary: 5 Stars
I can't say this book is worthwhile, but boy is it fun, and absolutely addictive! It's like eating the best junk food. You know you should be eating something else (i.e. reading Will Durant instead) but you can't resist! Cocktail parties, gossip, aristocrats, beauties, celebrities and the filthy rich are visited and reported on.