Can anyone recommend a good autobiography?

[BWTAC]

Not an autobiography, more of a memoir, Down and Out In Paris and London by George Orwell, my favourite book when i was younger.

Me Moir by Vic Reeves is a good read.

Last of the Cavaliers by Steve Smith Eccles, a throw back to the halcyon days where NH jockeys got drunk, shagged anything that moved and went out and broke most of the bones in their bodies on a daily basis.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

 

[sky tot]

Bert Trautman book , excellent

 

[Ja Salford Blue]

Gazza'a autobiography is by far the best I have ever read.

also as someone else said Andy Morrisions. (Its more like a football holigans book than a players)!

 

[beano46]

Bez - Freaky Dancin': Me and the Mondays and defo Paul Lakes

 

[Tourist since 1971]

Hitler, my part in his downfall - Spike Milligan

Remember reading this decades ago and crying with laughter. Sheer genius. The film with Jim Dale was ok and gave a hint of the comedy, but the book is superb. And it has sequels!

 

[nijinsky's fetlocks]

I found it a bit of a struggle to be honest.

 

[LongsightM13]

One of the very best autobiographies I have read was The Grass Arena by John Healy.
He was a talented young amateur boxer who joined the army, then got kicked out and hit the skids.
He became an alcoholic and a vagrant in 60s and 70s London, boozing, thieving and brawling his life away in the streets and parks of the capital.
The tales of the weird camaraderie and code of honour among the winos and the violence, brutality and contempt he experiences at the hands of his fellow hobos, police, doctors and prison guards are at times genuinely shocking.
Somewhere along the line, a kindly soul teaches him to play chess. And he is a natural. So good that he is soon entering top level competitions, and winning them. But this damaged soul knows he will never be truly accepted in that world either.
The BBC made a film of this brilliant book in the late 80s and Healy was also the subject of a feature length documentary last year.
We'll worth a read.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

I found it a bit of a struggle to be honest.

I get ya!

 

[Tourist since 1971]

Disappointed, thought it would be about his time working as a gay coalminer.