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You've got 15 seconds to name ONE good autobiography.

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>> No.12578909

>>12578900
You Can't Win by Jack Black (no, not that one)

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>> No.12578924

Confessions of Rousseau
Experience by Martin Amis
The Education of Henry Adams
Confessions of Saint Augustine
Black Elk Speaks by John Neihardt
among others

>> No.12578949

My diary

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>> No.12578961

>>12578900
Malcolm X

>> No.12578989

>>12578900
Mark Twain

>> No.12579019

>>12578900
Cellini's
DeQuincey's two
Coleridge's Biographia (which is a literary autobiography)
Frederick Douglas' three
>It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men

>> No.12579023

>>12578900
Does down and out in london and paris count?

>> No.12580042

>>12579023
no as it is not good

>> No.12580067

>>12578900
Asking for an extension so someone can explain to me the difference between an autobiography and a memoir.

>> No.12580072

>>12578920
Biography: Worth reading
Observations: Partially valid
Theory: Mislead shit

ex: Adolf speand an entire chapter carefully explaining why Parliaments suck and therefore conclude Democracy doesn't works. As if there was only one form of Democracy.

>> No.12580074

Autobiography of a Yogi

>> No.12580196

>>12578900
"Good-bye to all That", Robert Graves.

I found the English Literature course tedious, especially the insistence on eighteenth-century poets. My tutor, Percy Simpson, the editor of Ben Jonson’s plays, sympathized, telling me that he had suffered once, as a boy, for preferring the Romantic Revivalists. When his schoolmaster beat him for reading Shelley, he had protested between the blows: ‘Shelley is beautiful! Shelley is beautiful!’

>> No.12580331

my twisted world by elliot rodger

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>> No.12580377

The Autobiography of Emanuel Carnevali.

>> No.12580385

>>12578961
Why? Just yesterday I found out about it

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>> No.12580890

>>12579023
Yes. The other anon is retarded.

>> No.12580899

>>12580331
This.

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>>12578924
>tfw Alepeious dies

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Malcolm X

>> No.12582556

>>12578900
Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time by Joseph Frank

>> No.12582563

>>12582556
my bad, didn't see "auto," read Benvenuto Cellini's autobiography

>> No.12582572

>>12580072
He was mostly selling people on his philosophy, and he did have valid points. The fact us that most democracies have all of the issues that he saw in his parliament.

>> No.12582585

>>12582552
oh hell yeah

read this in rehab, was fitting in a way

never converted, though

>> No.12582713

Bernhard's biography.
it's his best work even