i'll be the first to admit, i don't read much.  i'm not into fiction.  i've been known to fall asleep reading alton brown's latest science style cookbook, free of food photography.  yeah, i know, it's weird. 

 

so when i heard that mark oliver everett , aka E from the band EELS, wrote an autobiography i was optimistic to read my second book since college.  the tale is simple and the writing style is direct and honest.  mark grew up in a screwy household with a quantum physicist father who developed the 'many worlds theory' and was a contemporary of niels bohr from your high school science books.  mom was a bird loving housewife.  sister was into everything bad.  so, with his music as his only outlet, he ventures from virgina to LA with a guitar and a few bucks.  it sounds familiar, but it's not.  it only gets more strange from their when everyone in the family dies within a short period of time.  and did i mention his cousin was in the plane that hit the pentagon on 9/11?

 

with chapters such as "good old days / shut up or die," how can you resist?  it's unlike anything you've ever read and it will grab you from the start.  if you think things are bad, trust me, it can get a lot worse.  mark oliver will inspire you to see the bright side.  years from now, he hopes to write the second half of the story..... the boring half. 

 

seriously different.  seriously good.