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HELLRAISERS PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Robert Sellers,Jake | 168 pages | 29 Jan 2013 | Selfmadehero | 9781906838362 | English | London, United Kingdom HellRaisers — CS:GO esports organization Team Empire. Natasha ishet Parnya. B7 17th - 18th. The International A2 2nd. A5 5th - 6th. Dota Pit League Season 3. A4 4th. Red Bull Battle Grounds Team Malaysia. MSI Dragon Battle 3. A1 1st. Vega Squadron. Gigabyte Challenge A9 9th - 12th. Dota 2 Asia Championship Team Rave. A7 7th - 8th. If you know anything about the history of these four they were, to put in a mild form, drinkers of phenomenal stamina. Robert Sellers, the author, had trawled the biographies, autobiographies of the four and interviewed close friends and colleagues to lay out their careers and the insanity that drink had on it all. As reads go it's addictive no pun intended. It roll out story after story - and when I say story after story I'm talking hundreds of anecdotes and tales - about the four. Some so insane that you have to wonder at the veracity of them. I liked this book but two major issues arose. The author has chosen to tell this all chronologically and to do so moves from one actor's story to the next in sequence. A few pages on one actor, a few on the next one and so on - throughout the book. Good as the tale telling is I look back on the work and I'm struggling to remember what story related to what actor. It's all a bit of a blur. It's also relentless and, at times repetitive, if Oliver Reed displays his private parts once in public he did it daily - and although funny at first it wears thin. Aug 28, Leanne rated it liked it. Page after page of actors getting so drunk that they attack people, trash places and then fall asleep wherever they happen to land. Assuring the reader over and over again how much they enjoyed themselves and how much fun it was, although all of them cannot remember huge blocks of time. I was interested when Richard Harris got cross on a chat show after someone describing him and his friends as drunks, arguing that there was more to their accomplishments than that. But I wonder if there was? Oliver Reed was a wasted career, ironically his last ever performance probably one of his best. The book itself tells us that yes, these men had one or two extraordinary performances but the rest of the films they made essentially were garbage. I would say that these were drinkers who occasionally acted but imagine what they could have been. The lives of some incredibly talented and incredibly stupid people chronicled here-all the carousing and comparatively uncivilized things rich drunken sots can get up to are chronicled here. You'll never read much about serious hardcore stoners pulling some of the crap these dense old alkies set about. Maybe someday in the future people will see the comparable cultures of the Rake and the Rope and see - alcohol definitel The lives of some incredibly talented and incredibly stupid people chronicled here-all the carousing and comparatively uncivilized things rich drunken sots can get up to are chronicled here. Maybe someday in the future people will see the comparable cultures of the Rake and the Rope and see - alcohol definitely leads to a path of self- and social-destruction. As old Akbar of Afghanistan said "the man on hashish will be laughing and joking with you at the end of the night- the drunkard on wine will maybe even end up trying to kill you. Couldn't be more evidence needed than a look at these tragic actors' lives. May 16, John rated it it was amazing. It is filled with hilarious anecdotes - many from the Actors themselves - which show how they lived in the fast lane but still gave some of the great performances of their generation! An intriguing concept Trouble is that after a while reading up about this endless stream of drunken fights and broken furniture, it becomes quite monotonous and as repetitive as a drunkard's stories. All four men had talent to burn and very interesting lives and if there's one thing this book can be accused off is to make them sound quite boring after a An intriguing concept All four men had talent to burn and very interesting lives and if there's one thing this book can be accused off is to make them sound quite boring after a while. They don't make them like the used to!! Being of a certain age almost 50 I missed the best stories that they created. But I grew up with some great films, played out on a rainy afternoon. These were all larger than life stars, the sort we'll never see again, and I loved the stories in this book that brought back a few good memories!! Hearing about the lives of these four crazy actors held me entranced through the whole book. I loved all of their work and especially when they worked with each other. I don't think I ever realized what hellraisers they were because their work was usually something everyone wished they had done. Thank you Robert Sellers for bringing them to life on the other side of the camera. Dec 11, Dennis Delaney rated it liked it. Apr 17, Darla Ebert rated it liked it. Well-written though the subject matter turned out to be depressing due to each of the actors mentioned having died prematurely. I had hoped for a redemption-style story for each. Brilliant and hysterical stories of 4 bawdy British actors drunken antics. Fast moving and brought back memories of newspaper headlines of my youth. Many famous characters appear throughout. Apr 16, richardmarshall rated it liked it. Interesting albeit anecdotal reflections on a bunch of pisscats who all end up in the grave. May 05, Gene Kannenberg Jr added it Shelves: biography , from-the-library , theatre , reviewed , film. A complicated book about complicated people. Not their complete biographies, of course the book is far too brief to encompass four lives completely. After brief childhood histories, Sellers dives into the meat of his book: Stories of drinking, carousing, and gen A complicated book about complicated people. After brief childhood histories, Sellers dives into the meat of his book: Stories of drinking, carousing, and general craziness, fueled nearly entirely by alcohol and occasionally controlled substances. The tales do cover each man's entire career, so we can say that you get at least their mini-biographies along the way, though seen through alcohol- tinted lenses. The stories are by turns hilarious, outrageous, and, ultimately, more than a bit sad. One by one, the tales can incite peals of laughter or exclamations of "How could anyone possibly do that? Just flipping through the photograph section leads to amazement: [Richard] Burton was crippled by ill health later in life. In fact, during one operation surgeons were astonished to discover that Burton's entire spinal column was coated with crystallised alcohol. One morning, he was bemused to find stitches in his face, totally unaware that he'd wrecked a restaurant the night before. In Paris shooting What's New Pussycat? However, after pages of this behavior--actually, well before then--the novelty and shock value wear off, and one begins to weary of wasted potential. Undoubtedly, each actor gave some momentous, never-to-be-equaled performances on stage and screen; but just as often, if not moreso their performances were marred by impairments, sometimes disgracefully so. And pity the women who married them except, perhaps, Elizabeth Taylor, who seems to have been at least Burton's equal in temperament and impairment, if not his better and their children, who so often lived learning more about their fathers from the news than from their daily influence. The book contains hundreds of tales of outrageous behavior, both public and private. I only thought to track down one of them: Peter O'Toole's infamous appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman, in which he comes on stage riding a camel. It's on Youtube for your viewing pleasure. Sellers' version follows the same general shape of the actual event, but it also contains as Huckleberry Finn would call them some "stretchers," with certain elements elaborated on and others invented for more dramatic effect. I'm not sure if the changes are due to faulty memory on Sellers' part or a desire to make the event even more outrageous than it already was; but if this single fact- check can turn up errors, it leads me to wonder how much of the other material in the book has also been "enhanced. It is just disappointing to realize that a "non-fiction" book exhibits a loose grasp of its own contents. Ultimately, one takes away from Hellraisers a renewed appreciation for what these four actors managed to accomplish on and off the screen, as well as regret for what might also have been if only their behavior hadn't been quite so hellacious. Or did the greatness of their art necessarily depend on habitual insanity? And if so, was the chaos that behavior caused to their relationships worth it in order for the rest of us to experience their art? These questions, unfortunately, are not ones that Hellraiesrs is equipped to answer. PS: The author's prose suffers from perhaps the worst case of "British comma aversion" I have ever encountered. Note to authors and their editors: Commas are necessary for direct address and the appositive, but their misuse can lead to run-on sentences verging on parody.

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