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Start by marking “My Most Wanted Life - English Edition: Onscreen, Offscreen And In Between | The Autobiography | Handsigned by Ray Cokes” as Want to Read:
Four days into 2015 and I have already finished my first book! Yay for me! :-)
This one was a christmas gift by the only person allowed to give me books. Usually people completely misjudge my reading preferences and I end up with tons of books that I never want to read, but feel obliged to anyway, because they were a gift, PLUS I can't give them away for fear that the gift-givers will one day check my shelves for the book they gave me, or - worse - ask if they can borrow it.
That said, I would not
Four days into 2015 and I have already finished my first book! Yay for me! :-)
This one was a christmas gift by the only person allowed to give me books. Usually people completely misjudge my reading preferences and I end up with tons of books that I never want to read, but feel obliged to anyway, because they were a gift, PLUS I can't give them away for fear that the gift-givers will one day check my shelves for the book they gave me, or - worse - ask if they can borrow it.
That said, I would not have bought an autobiography of Ray Cokes, but I used to watch his show (Most Wanted) with this one very special friend, and it certainly made my laugh that she gave this to me.
It's a (very) easy read - straight enough to qualify as an actual account of ones life, not straight enough to be boring, with lots of anecdotes about the people on the show and all sorts of actors and musicians. Since I'm not much into gossip, parts of it were a bit boring to me, but with the way it's written, you can mostly grasp the content of one page in under 20 seconds, to even the boring parts flew by.
I admit that I never knew that Ray Cokes had a famous breakdwon in Hamburg which cost him his job on MTV. I stopped watching regular TV somewhere around 1993/94, and I really couldn't have cared less about who worked on MTV or didn't even before that. Judging by the way he writes about it, he is still not completely over his breakdown, and on many occasions you can read between the lines that he has obviously learned how to deal with things and how to view them from an outside and reasonable perspective, but there's still a stuboorn little hothead hidden inside of him that wants to yell at people and tell them "DAMN you I'm RIGHT!!!".
I have no idea if Cokes intended to come across this way in his book, but to me, it makes him wonderfully human and sympathetic, and I would love to meet him one day for a beer.
(That's just a beer, Mr. Cokes, not an invitation to have sex. I think.)
Books read, fun was had, what more do you want? :-)
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Loved it. MTV most wanted was such a huge part of my life in the 90s and I still remember the Hamburg disaster like it was yesterday. Living in Belgium, I'm lucky too regularly see Ray on TV and reading this honest candid book certainly made me quite nostalgic. Was surprised by the very gripping way of writing.