Survival at it's finest.

What fantastic biography this was, I'm not a big Libertines of Baby Shambles fan. What do like is a story of excess in rock n roll and the artist survival and who knows how he survived. Highly recommended.

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Not bad but loses its charm about halfway through

I will start by saying the Author/Narrator does a passable yet mediocre job - not unlistenable but at points I had to have a break as the monotonous reading occasionally seemed to drone.
As for the biography itself- it is well written in Peters own words and although ghost written by the Narrator in the first person it certainly does have that "Doherty charm" to it.
As for the subject I feel like it is a slightly white washed history- we get an in depth comprehensive walk through of the first 15 years of Peters life- thoroughly riveting, but then as we get into his 20's everything just seems to get skipped over or brushed aside- I didn't really learn anything new about The Libertines, Babyshambles or his relationship with Carl.

We never get any real details and I feel like the coverage of the second half of his life is lacking in substance and we never really get the full story- Amy Winehouse, Kate Moss, Peaches Geldof and Robin Whitehead are all briefly mentioned in passing as is Peter Wolfe (the wolfman) but he doesn't go into detail- the same with The Libertines breakup- he never goes into the full story, he just vaguely recounts things we already know but never really tell us what he felt or why it happened.

To summarize this book isn't a must read for fans of The Libertines but to anyone who is a Pete Doherty fan it is worth it for the first half of the book alone, in which Pete goes into a lot of detail on his childhood and family life.

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Very honest

Going through everything Pete has I found this book really interesting and brutally honest even if not showing him in the best light

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Great!

I loved the honesty & self assessment by Peter on Peter. I'm sure that there are incidents that had to be left out or with held for a variety of reasons, but the Essence of the man is here. A beautiful soul, with immense talent & now, with a wonderful future ahead of him with Katia & their baby

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Enjoyed very much

I really enjoyed this book. I feel like I got an authentic picture of Pete Doherty looking back on himself as a shambolic and bewildered lost soul from a place of semi-enlightenment. You get insight into his sensitiveness and reasons why he might have ended up the way he did. But without any self pitying. He is honest. Honest enough to say he finds it hard to be honest (which is quite an honest thing to say). Unlike others I thought the narration was great but it would have been nice if he read it himself.

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Hard but Insightful Tale

A real warts and all account that doesn't attempt to shy away from the extent of depravity and drug consumption that the author partook in. A hard listen at times for sure, but it's a good addition to the other existing Libertines titles out there and stands up well!

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Good story but very woe is me

Good story and interesting to hear the background. Frustrating the author didn’t read it himself. It was very woe is me though.

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Great story's

Great book,great story's and great to hear Peter is doing well and is happy with life.

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Great. What’s not to love about R n R autobiographies.

Authentic and honest. I quite liked Pete by the end of the book. Recommend it but not if you’re anti drugs as it’s near the knuckle.

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Super book!

Thanks for doing this book Peter! Really informative and leaves us hanging with what’s next in this tale of ups and downs. Myself like so many others I’m sure have fingers crossed that Peter will keep clean and the next chapter will be the best chapter of all. One thing I will say is that Peter is very non-accountable for quite a lot of the issues that arose during the drug infested sessions. Things like blaming others for his prison sentences or scrapes that he’d get into. I definitely find myself shaking my head on many an occasion! But these stories add so much to the honesty of this brilliant book!

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