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What are some of the best autobiographies you ever read?
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What are some of the best autobiographies you ever read?
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my book that I write bits about my daily what not desu
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another bullshit night in suck city
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>>8196607
arthur koestlers two part autobiography. Arrow in the Blue and The Invisible Writing. also My Life leon trotsky. And of course confessions/reveries Rousseau
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>>8196732

>Arrow in the Blue and The Invisible Writing

That murder suicide though. I'm not sure a good Christian boy like me should be exposed to the inner workings of a mind like that!

>My Life leon trotsky.

Is he honest? Or is he just trying to meme people with muh communism?
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Chronicles of Wasted Time -- Malcolm Muggeridge
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>>8196765
Are you serious? That is a stupid reason not to read him.

Trotsky was a genuinely brilliant write
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I've only read Ben Franklin's. It was cool
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Carlyle never wrote one, but he permitted Froude to write his official autobiography.

It's an incredible read, but even the abridged version is long as fuck.

Reading has made me realize that there are truly not enough hours in the day.
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Gerald Durrell's Corfu Trilogy
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>>8196871

>too hot
>too dry
>too many greeks
>swimming pool full of tadpoles
>feral dog humped my leg

"Island Paradise" indeed.
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his childhood through late teen years are disturbing and entertaining
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Killing Time: The Autobiography of Paul Feyerabend
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>>8196877
The last 100 pages are so repetitive but this is still the most interesting autobiography I'v ever read.
I am Ozzy is pretty great too
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>>8196607
Speak, Memory
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Akira Kurosawa's Something Like an Autobiography should be essential.

Also Miles Davis' Autobiography.

I remember an anon here wanted to make a /lit/'s guide to autobiographies chart a while back but I don't know if he ever finished it.
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