Role Models

A story, rather than a review. Or both, I think. Two lovely British friends came to visit. We took the bus to New York, and then Boston. In Boston, we visited Harvard, and Harvard Book Store. I saw this book, and picked it up from the Biography/Celebrity section. The next day, I flew back to Baltimore. A......more

From John Water's Role Models: You should never read for "enjoyment". Read to make yourself smarter. Or less judgmental. More apt to understand your friends' insane behavior, or better yet, your own. Pick "hard books". Ones you have to concentrate on while reading. And for God's sake, don't ever let......more

Okay, John Waters is not for everyone—never was, never will be, and certainly never aspired to be. However, when they remade Hairspray the film as a musical movie based on an incredibly successful Broadway play, and John Travolta won the stiff competition for the part first played by Divine (his bea......more

Pg 164 sums it up for Goodreads bookworms... "You should never just read for "enjoyment." Read to make yourself smarter! Less judgemental. More apt to understand your friends' insane behaviour, or better yet, your own. Pick "hard books." Ones you have to concentrate on while reading." Here's where Jo......more

There is something so comfortable about John Waters' essays. He is an extremely reasonable man in an unreasonable world. The beauty of this book is Waters' riffing on old friends, various famous people who inspired him, and the best part is a tour of his town's (Baltimore) most sleezy bars, which he......more