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Living Like a Runaway: a Memoir PDF Book LIVING LIKE A RUNAWAY: A MEMOIR PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Lita Ford | 272 pages | 07 Apr 2016 | HarperCollins Publishers Inc | 9780062270641 | English | New York, United States Living Like a Runaway: A Memoir PDF Book I love the fact that Lita's parents supported her in what she wanted out of life. But I have to wonder if her actions made it easy for them to think of her as just another groupie who happened to play guitar. She also has a real tendency to blame everyone else for her career not working as well as she'd hoped, especially following the success of "Kiss Me Deadly". It's nice to read about her putting her life and career back together following those events, even if she does have an exaggerated view of her own importance in rock history. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. The storytelling is amateurish, with confusing chronology even from paragraph to paragraph. At age 16 Lita Ford played guitar at her own birthday party drawing a huge crowd, and eventually the police. Like literally, the only one. Entertaining - needed better editing. You had to be tough to deal with the rivalries, the unrestrained tension of performing, recording, and living with a bunch of fickle, frightened, and vulnerable teenage girls, most of whom coped by drinking and drugging their troubles away while lying to their parents about keeping up with their schoolwork. Montana was great at first, but twelve years and three children later, I felt as trapped as I had in Indiana. Capitol to an influential position working for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and his friendships with Washington's most powerful movers and shak. I am fine with the name dropping and stories - that's what I want in a rock star biography. Hardcover , pages. See 2 questions about Living Like a Runaway…. Well, reality is, these things happen all the time, to every musician, penis or no penis. But then, at a low point in her career, came a tumultuous marriage that left her feeling trapped, isolated from the rock-and-roll scene for more than a decade, and—most tragically—alienated from her two sons. This memoir is about the anti-racism advocate growing up in the fifties and sixties and coming of age in the segregated South during the Civil Rights Movement. The rest is just random obnoxious filler. Edited and introduced by Andrew Tod. Books Bestsellers List Sunday, Oct. Long Live Lita! She moves on to the s and her solo career, her marriages and the birth of her two sons who are not allowed to see her or be in contact with her because of her controlling ex-husband and the brain washing they got from the rules of being members in the UFC martial arts, which sounds a bit like a cult, not allowing the members to eat chocolate, they are only allowed vanilla cake once a year, and they must be loyal, but because Lita filed for divorce she is considered unloyal. There are no golden-haired honeys waxing up surfboards, catching waves, or having fun all summer long. Her parents were so supportive of Lita and her metal career that Mama Ford even wrote an advice column for RIP magazine. Postmodernism is bliss. So she said she decided to write it on her own, and that was what was holding things up. And just all around irresponsible and immature behavior in general. Jan 02, Angelo G. Maybe it is her writing style but I found it to be dry and not well organized. Living Like a Runaway: A Memoir Writer I would suggest this book for rock and roll fans. Want to Read saving…. Go watch the live Wembley concert footage for more than a few examples of this. In short, she was born to rock. Janice Erlbaum paints a wry, mesmerizing portrait of being underprivileged, underage, and underdressed in the s, bouncing from shelters to group homes, from tenement squats to legendary nightclubs. She talks about throwing a burrito at someone for a minor infraction but then paints herself as this person who didn't want any drama. This is going the way of Margaux Hemingway's memoir that was written, pushed back several times and never released. Sep 27, Ethan rated it really liked it. Any thoughts on if or when it will ever come out? Not prepared for the winter, they almost froze to death. He also told her that he wrote "Looks That Kill" about her. Lots of swearing. Then followed more than a decade of silence and darkness—until rock and roll repaid the debt it owed this pioneer, helped Lita reclaim her soul, and restored the Queen of Metal to her throne. Of course, I have had it since it came out a million years ago and sitting with the other not so new books in my stacks. Postmodernism is bliss. Hot Property. All in all Lita Ford comes of as being unstable to say the least, not unlike most other rockers, but unlike most rockers she wants to wear the rebellion as a badge of honor when it suits her but want to portray herself as a innocent victim at other times. Entertaining read - particularly with the beginnings of Lita's guitar playing and the Runaways. A fun read overall. There are no discussion topics on this book yet. The whole thing is dripping with internalized misogyny and although I know it's super common in Lita's generation, she's taking it to quite a high level and I just couldn't deal with that page after page. She does dedicate the book to West, the ill- fated Runaways drummer who struggled with addiction and died of cancer in Growing up during the Depression in a small Indiana town, I had never seen a mountain or an ocean when I was twenty-one and had scarcely been outside the state. Best for. The Runaways period is the best in the book for me, especially since we have heard the stories from Joan and Cherie. So ummm? But I read it in all my spare moments over the course of two days. View 1 comment. The chapters on The Runaways run flat and lack energy. Welcome back. At least guy rockstars are honest about this. Jan 25, Amy rated it liked it Shelves: memoir , press-copy , review , music , entertainment-realm-review , read-in When year-old Lita Ford showed up to audition for her first rock band, she was sporting a recently broken nose and an eye bright-red from a burst blood vessel. Just so you can play the game more efficiently. Living Like a Runaway: A Memoir Reviews Darby became an antiwar activist during the Vietnam War. Rating details. There are no golden-haired honeys waxing up surfboards, catching waves, or having fun all summer long. Other editions. You should have maybe waited a few more years to put this book out. He refers to Lita as "the only serious musician" in the Runaways, which is total bullshit. Jan 05, Rachel Khona rated it liked it. After the Runaways, Ford found some success in the s scoring a 1 hit and two top tens, including a duet with Ozzie Osborne. She got over that, blaming her own cultural ignorance — but she never addresses how navigating a hostile world in the s might have been harder for young lesbians afraid to reveal their sexuality than it was for Lita, a hot straight-cis blond. Aug 03, Kim Peterson rated it liked it. And she's still pouting and writing about it. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. She no longer has contact with her sons. Books by Lita Ford. Jim holding it up? You had to be tough to deal with the rivalries, the unrestrained tension of performing, recording, and living with a bunch of fickle, frightened, and vulnerable teenage girls, most of whom coped by drinking and drugging their troubles away while lying to their parents about keeping up with their schoolwork. Even more impressive is the fact that Lita seems to have remained true to Actual Rating 2. Capitol to an influential position working for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and his friendships with Washington's most powerful movers and shak. I wrote a more lengthy review on Amazon as I will on my Bookshopworm. Your videos and hits seem to be more Rock Pop tunes So I don't know where this Queen of Metal thinking is coming from. She was beaten up, shaken down, and nearly stabbed by a pregnant girl. There's a strange oppressive Twilight Zone mentioning of her failed 16 year marriage with Jim Gillette from the band Nitro. Overall, it was worth the read but not one of the best that I read read from 80's rockers. It starts with Dee Snider's smoke-blowing preface though the story he tells does take on some more emotional heft when we hear the same one from Lita's perspective towards the end of the book , and it just stays on a low level from there. She tells us when she had an abortion as a teen without her parents ever knowing, her first STD after having sex with one of the Ramones. Ford complains throughout the book how she wasn't taken seriously as a musician, and hypothesizes this is because she is female. I sure hope they are different. So she s …more In an interview a while back, she claimed that she had been working with a couple of different co-writers, and wasn't happy with any of them.
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