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So I just started reading this book and it made me wonder, what is the best autobiography?

>> No.6415465

Min Kamp by Knausgård

>> No.6415471

>>6415451
malcolm x
henry adams

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6415503

>>6415451

>> No.6415515

>>6415465
fuck off

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>>6415515
But it's true. You'd know if you read him.

>> No.6415520

CASH by Johnny Cash

>> No.6415524

>>6415451
segur, napoleon's russian campaign

pffft arnold

>> No.6415541

Actual autobiographies are complete shit 9 times out of 10.

Autofiction > Autobiography

>> No.6415543

>>6415451
>>6415471
>>6415503
>>6415520

All obviously ghostwritten. 0/10

>> No.6415555

>>6415543
Malcolm X's autobiography isn't ghost-written as that implies secrecy. Alex Haley "novelized" a bunch of interviews with him, and Haley is the co-author.

A great autobiography is the one of Benvenuto Cellini, a famous Italian artist born in 1500. He was pretty crazy, extremely into himself, and murdered several people who wronged him, quote copied from Wikipedia:

>When certain decisions of the court were sent me by those lawyers, and I perceived that my cause had been unjustly lost, I had recourse for my defense to a great dagger I carried; for I have always taken pleasure in keeping fine weapons. The first man I attacked was a plaintiff who had sued me; and one evening I wounded him in the legs and arms so severely, taking care, however, not to kill him, that I deprived him of the use of both his legs. Then I sought out the other fellow who had brought the suit, and used him also such wise that he dropped it.

Then he escaped from jail by jumping out the window, breaking both legs, and dragging himself to safety.

Benjamin Franklin also wrote a relatively good autobiography, it's very motivating. Get an edition with the essay/letter "Advice to a Young Man on the Choice of a Mistress", it's hilarious

>nutting into that older pussy without fear of children
>3. Because there is no hazard of Children, which irregularly produc'd may be attended with much Inconvenience.

>> No.6415569

>>6415451
Behold the Man

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The only autobiography where I wanted more after it was over

>> No.6415947

The Autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa

>> No.6415957

>>6415555
I'll second the recommendation for Cellini's autobiography.

>> No.6415963

Robert Graves, Goodbye to All That

>> No.6416238

>>6415503
>>6415543

Ozzy's book was dictated and transcribed.

It's also fucking hilarious.

>> No.6416836

Berlioz's Memoirs