A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints

This didn’t have the most coherent narrative, but I kept reading for the sheer joy of the voice. Dito Montel’s misadventures in the 90s make for some engaging reading. It also includes pictures, and Dito isn’t too hard on the eyes. Note that the movie and the book have absolutely nothing in common.......more

Man, does Dito Montiel have talent. Raw, wild, uniquely his talent. Brilliance with words. However, like Ginsberg, I must admit this book lacked cohesion— it felt scattered.......more

"I feel like I really messed up, but that's why I wrote all this craziness, anyway. I wrote it because people change and people leave, and new things come along." - Dito Dito writes of his life as a thuggish-guy from Astoria who's band "Gutterboy" became (in their words) "the most successful unsucc......more

Perhaps not perfectly written/structured, but I loved the humanity of this book.......more

Dito Montiel's autobiography attempts to be a modern day Kerouac novel. It has great moments, especially all of the stuff from his adolescent days in Astoria. (The chapter entitled "Clowns" is hysterical.) This is a rare instance where the movie is actually better than the book.......more