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Se c'era uno che difficilmente avrebbe potuto sfondare come DJ e musicista nei club newyorkesi a cavallo tra gli anni Ottanta e i Novanta, quello era Moby. Era la New York del Palladium, del Mars, del Limelight e del Twilo, un'epoca edonistica e sfrenata in cui la dance era ancora un fenomeno underground, radicato soprattutto nella comunità operaia afroamericana e latinoamericana. E poi c'era Moby, che oltre a essere un ragazzino bianco pelle e ossa proveniente dal cuore del Connecticut era un cristiano devoto, vegano e astemio. Non senza complicazioni, Moby trovò la sua strada, una strada accidentata e lastricata di eccessi sciagurati - ma, col senno di poi, anche spassosi - che lo avrebbe portato a un successo quanto mai effimero. Ecco perché sul volgere del decennio Moby contemplava già la fine, della carriera come di altre dimensioni della sua vita, una sensazione che incanalò in quello che pensava sarebbe stato il suo canto il suo addio, l'album che in realtà era destinato a segnare l'inizio di una nuova e sbalorditiva fase, il mega-bestseller "Play". Generoso quanto inesorabile nel raccontare un mondo perduto e il ruolo che vi ricopre il suo protagonista, "Porcelain" è al contempo il ritratto di una città e di un'epoca e una riflessione sul momento più carico d'ansia della vita di ciascuno di noi, quello in cui siamo soli e scommettiamo su noi stessi senza avere la minima idea di come andrà a finire, con il terrore di essere a un passo dal venire scaraventati fuori dalla porta.
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- Pagine: 430
- Data di uscita: 13-05-2016
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*This is a re-read. The sequel to Porcelain is coming out on May 2nd.* Yay! I'd give Moby's memoir "Porcelain" 10 Stars if I could! This book is raw, real, honest and it made me feel. That's right! This is another book with all the feels!!! I had no idea what an impact this book was going to have on Leggi tutto
This book is 400 pages (and it stops in 1999) and could have benefited from being about 399 pages shorter. Mainly just vignettes of him getting drunk. No real in-depth discussion about the process of composing. If you want to read about Moby having sex with a woman openly in club full of drag queens Leggi tutto
In the late 90's, when Moby rose to fame, I was underage, and of course sneaking into clubs and concert venues, mostly to see punk bands; but when, for some reason, my friends dragged me to a rave, I looked at those people wearing wide pants (often in a mean orange or furry with cow print) and tiny
The electronic muscian Moby writes a memoir which I loved for many reasons. NOSTALGIA :Moby is from CT and so am I, we attended UCONN at the same time, and he lived in the same East Village neighborhood a decade after I did. HUMBLE : Moby is a famous musician but he details his meteoric rise and subsequ Leggi tutto
I didn't like this book nearly as much as the masses, and it's not because I don't love Moby, I like him enough, and I've been to enough Raves, and can appreciate electronic music to get it. I also appreciate that he penned his memoir and it was not co-written by anyone. Turns out he is a thoughtful Leggi tutto
5 stars!!!!! This deserves all the high praises, incredibly well written memoir. I devoured every word. I knew about Moby through his music but nothing else about him really. The mood he captures around the emerging electronic and rave music scene in the early 90's, about his beloved New York..feels Leggi tutto
"With reluctance, I agreed. To be descended from Herman Melville and not try to write my own memoir would seem like a bit of a hereditary affront." Before launching the editor to write up this review, I checked my iTunes library and discovered that I have seven and a half hours of Moby's songs on my Leggi tutto
hmm.. well, he is a good writer, although it needed a lot of editing (there are a lot of repetitive sentences and thoughts), but I'm not quite sure what the point of this was - it ends before the high parts of his career, and there were several parts of it where he seemed like an adolescent boy show Leggi tutto
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