Review:As you read this book you realize how well the title describes the author. She states early in the book that she has an addictive personality, meaning when she becomes fond of something, she gets addicted to it for some length of time. Whether it be drugs, sex or various fattening foods you realize how little you understand about what motivates people. This isn't necessarily an eye-opening expose on the inner workings of the porn industry. Nor is it a damning confession or liberating tell-all of... Read more

Review:I just started reading this book, and I look forward to it. Justice Ginsburg writes the Forward. She and Scalia were greats friends, for which the great man gift of making. I'd advise anyone who cares about the law, and the virtues that we Americans believe in, to read this book. Read more

Review:This book is a delight. Some of the criticisms listed here remark that the biography, though beautiful, is not informative enough, humorless, or even fundamentally dislikable. I disagree. I believe that Nabakov possessed enough skill and intent to write an autobiography in any tone or context he might choose; I therefore believe that the lens through which he shows us his youth has been carefully chosen and rendered. Dry accounts of facts and events in so many biographies make them a struggl... Read more

Review:I liked the way he integrated seemingly unrelated events in the first part of the book into his grieving for his late wife in the second part. Quite ingenious I thought. A touching book - very memorable. Read more

Review:I mean, I wanted to read exclusivly about the formative days of the mob, about Luciano and the guys that started it in New York. everything that happens after the 1950s bores me, just as everything that happens in any other place than Manhattan Island pretty much does. This book is two thirds devoted to 1980 and afterwards. Those modern-day guys bore me, they have no imagination, and they all wanted to be famous after the movie ' The Godfather'. I dont want to hear about who was influenced by "T... Read more

Review:A deeply personal and professionally enlightening account of survival and liberation. A book anybody troubled with sorrow and/or anger, an overly critical and negative self image can learn from. It’s honest and compelling with a lot to teach us all how to be better human beings. Read more

Review:This book was good. It seem such a real account of day to day trying to survive. My single disappointment was his pleasure in making fun of the Germans ...When after liberation he was "in charge" and during rank would make them to things to make himself feel better. I felt that he did it exactly what they did.. took their past experience to try to hurt them. Sometimes no matter how hard it is you just have to let go. Read more

Review:I saw the movie before purchasing the book. I was disappointed with the book. I was hoping to read about Bart's life in greater detail and the struggles he went through as a child. The book was more about his travels with the band. Not what I expected Read more

Review:Malika Oufkir's childhood was one of luxury and indulgence as the informally adopted daughter of King Muhammed V of Morocco and companion to Princess Amina. That life was gone in an instant when Malika's father, General Oufkir, was implicated in an abortive coup against the regime. The General was summarily shot; Oufkir's wife and six children -- the eldest, 19-year old Malika, and the youngest a baby only three - were rounded up, placed under house arrest and then dispatched without legal reco... Read more

Review:Say what you want about Tony, he is incredibly transparent, incredibly honest, and incredibly introspective. I find this book, like the rest, to be an amazingly candid view into this amazingly neurotic right-brained introspective halliuciation that is Tony Bourdain. I love it. Brilliance at its best and it's worst. Read more