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Summary: Layne Staley???...kinda.
Review: For a pretty accurate review on heroin, and a good history lesson I highly recommend this book. But for an avid Alice in Chains fan and anyone with great interest in Layne Staley, this book is not exactly what I had in mind (chances are you won't either). This book lacks a sense of deep thoughts by the author, and is basically what an essay would sound like by a fan. The interviews with layne's family and the very, VERY brief conversations and quotes by layne himself (if they are not fictional) are interesting and give you a much better view of what he goes through. I would have either suggested filling the book with interesting tidbits on alice in chains, their MUSIC??, touring, studio, etc. Or at least put a decent amount of pictures of layne or the band. this book kind of lacks both. Worth the money, but after a day or two it will probably go in a box or disappear under your bed.
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Summary: Should have been better
Review: This book was very poorly written. The author gets way off track talking about herself and the Renaissance period. The only things saving this book are the stories told by Layne's mother and sister and the photographs. This book should have been better. The author should have focused more on Layne and less on herself. There is so much more I want to know about Layne and the author just barely scratches the surface.
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Summary: This book is basically a waste and a disappointment!!!
Review: I just wanted to say that after waiting so long to buy this book, I was completely disappointed after reading it, which only took a day, because of its length. The book is not true to its decription....."a look inside the heart and soul of an incredible musician." Adriana basically based the book on letters and phone conversations with Layne's mother. She really didn't even know him herself. She had no right to write a book about someone she did not know. Sorry to say it, Adriana, but you need to stick to writing on subjects you know about. To everyone thinking of buying this book, don't. Believe me, you will be disappointed!
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Summary: Waste of time and money
Review: The most poorly written book I have ever read. Repeats
the same information several times. I bought this book
for Layne Staleys "last interview". Rolling Stone magazines website
has essentially the same info from the interview, sans
the authors self-indulgence and incredibly confusing
analysis. After reading it, I threw it in the garbage.
It would be like passing on a virus to re-sell this book.
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Summary: good book
Review: now i waited a long time for this book to come out and to be honsist it was not bad at all althoug she does go off track about layen and start talking about herion which is dumb on here part but other wise it was a good book.
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Summary: Wrong Subject
Review: After reading "Angry Chair" I wonder who is the subject of this study. The author never tells us whether she even met Layne Staley in person, and judging from the text she apparently did not. Layne's mother and sister, and the author's experiences with both women in the period just before Layne's death, are the actual subject of this book. Adriana Rubio provides some insight into Layne Stayley's childhood, but she tells us almost nothing about the final years of Layne's life (though plenty about the lives of his mother and sister around the time of Layne's death). Rubio's book loses sight of the fact that it was Layne, and not his mother or sister, who made such an impact on the world of music. "Angry Chair" is therefore a major disappointment.
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Summary: Adriana Rubio=Hack
Review: If your thinking of buying this book, don't. You would gain much more insight about Layne and his life by listening to the music of AIC than this book could ever offer. Adriana Rubio, you are nothing more than a hack. Go back to what ever it was you were doing before you started "writing".W~
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Summary: Better than Unchained
Review: Some things are better left unsaid. I don't think the surviving members of AIC or Layne Staley would have wanted the truth to be told. No band members other than Mike Starr have made comment on the whole AIC situation. I think it best we all just agree that they made some good tunes that will last some of us lifetimes, and let the dead rest in peace. I hope Layne can finally rest his soul. This book is OK, but it lacks the bands cooperation as well as Layne's. so to me it is all hearsay.
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Summary: This will have to tide readers over until a definitive bio..
Review: It has often been said that true genius is never realized by the public except in hindsight. With that being said, Layne Staley's genius has been realized by more and more people since his tragic death last year. Staley's life and work correlated perfectly, proving that all great art, especially great music, comes out of some sort of pain. While this book, which was in the works long before Layne passed is written on more of a younger reader's level, it has a few good points within, and it will have to tide people over until a "Heavier Than Heaven"-esque definitive biography is written about Layne. Many readers and reviewers have pointed out that the book is full of grammatical errors and such and it does seem a little rushed in spots, but Adrianna Rubio does seem to have a great deal of care for her subject, and at times the suggestion that Layne himself made to her through an interview that she should "Write a book about yourself" seems true, as she does discuss herself a good bit in the book, but it all ties together. One thing that Rubio has to be commended on is not looking into and filling this text full of the sensational, Howard Hughes-like rumors that surrounded the Layne Staley myth in his last few years--stories that the reclusive Staley had been seen around Seattle and was in such and such shape and his skin was so and so color, or whatever. However, Layne does describe how his physical appearance had deteriorated, himself, in his phone interview with Rubio. Another thing that makes this book worth looking into is the photographs of Layne when he was a child, especially the one on page 121. If one had listened to his work and felt as if they knew him through his music, these photographs, particularly that one is very sad, for in its idyllic tone, juxtaposed to how bad a turn his life later took, is just heartbreaking. I had always wished that Layne would somehow emerge from his depression and that some sort of Phoenix-like rebirth would take place (like in the similar case of the Red Hot Chili Peppers' John Frusciante) and Layne would be creating again, but, sadly, it never came to be.
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Summary: i found the book to be.......................
Review: i have been a fan of alice in chains and of layne staley for years. when i heard that there was a book out about layne i wanted to read it. i had heard that it was made by interviews with layne his mom and his sister. i wanted to read what layne said most of all. i had bought the book and sat down to read it. i found the book to be boring. layne was hardly interviewed for the book. there is a part where layne calls adriana and tells her how much pain he is in and that he knew that he was about to die. that is about it from layne the rest is from his mother and sister. then adriana gose on about drugs in the united states and how it has become a problem.i just found the book boring.
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