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4.5⭐️ Excellent audio experience. I’ve loved Springsteen’s music since his greatest hits album got left in my car by a friend in 1997 and I refused to give back the cassette tape. The book was lyrical and extremely honest. Bruce is a true artist dedicated to his craft who uses his voice to make change in the world by singing about people who often don’t have a voice but slog through their daily lives working for the man. I appreciated his brutal honesty about the difficult relationships he had with his parents and his battles with depression. Highly recommend.
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An amazing piece of writing and memoir. I loved what he had to say about the importance of music and storytelling. A choice quote: “Those whose love we wanted but could not get, we emulate. It is dangerous but it makes us feel closer, gives us an illusion of the intimacy we never had. It stakes our claim upon that which was rightfully ours but denied. In my 20s, as my song and my story began to take shape, I searched for the voice I would blend with mine to do the telling. It is a moment when through creativity and will you can rework, repossess and rebirth the conflicting voices of your childhood, to turn them into something alive, powerful and seeking light. I’m a repairman. That’s part of my job. So I, who’d never done a week’s worth of manual labor in my life . . . put on a factory worker’s clothes, my father’s clothes, and went to work.”
insane that he learned to drive so late when he can’t go 1 song without mentioning a car
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I don’t know if I want Bruce Springsteen to be my father or if I want to be Bruce Springsteen he’s AWESOME. This is so good!!! His prose is so genuine and reflective of the same emotionality and introspection and accessibility (yet complexity) created and maintained in his songwriting. I laughed and I cried and I was so entertained the entire book and it got me out of like a six month period of having not finished any books. SO GOOD I can’t get over it.
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