/lit/ - Literature

>>11186987
Another favourite of mine: Miles Davis' Autobiography (I swear I don't just read autobiographies). A legendary musician - although you don't have to like jazz music to love this book - he details his struggles with drug abuse (he needed his heroin fix so badly that he would pawn off his own trumpet before gigs and then cancel, or even would steal from other people, pawn it off and hope to buy it back before they noticed it was missing), his time at Juilliard (and why he felt it was complete bullshit), his experiences recording music and touring (I really enjoyed when he would say other musicians were bullshit like Ornette Coleman - he has a real rant about Ornette being ignorant thinking he can just play a saxophone like that - but then would shortly after compliment him and how great he was), his five years of being a hermit (in which he pursued a career in painting and art), religion and spirituality (the chapter focusing on his best friend Gil Evans dying is genuinely beautiful) etc etc.

All of this is delivered with his great personality and strong stance against bullshit. There's a lot of "motherfucker" this and "motherfucker" that. You can genuinely just picture hearing the audiobook read in his distinctive raspy voice. Genuinely a treat to read.

I should revisit it sometime, I'm sure I've not done it justice (the parts where he calls out awkward racism is fun too, like a rich white girl who's in the same car as Miles and other musicians starts trying to act black and then starts saying "mammy" as if it'd go unnoticed, or the story of some famous comedian who called Miles and his band a bunch of spear chuckers, then Miles had the opportunity to call him out on it years later on a plane).