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The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music by Dave Grohl

29 reviews

uranaishi's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Alcohol

Moderate: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Medical content, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Body horror, Self harm, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Pregnancy, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

max_vampire's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Body horror, Vomit, and Death of parent

marigold82's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny informative inspiring lighthearted relaxing fast-paced

5.0

Don't expect a chronological story and you will adore this book. I had no fierce connection to Dave Grohl prior to reading it. I knew who he was, the Foo fighters and Nirvana are kinda hard not to know. I also think this may have been my first musician autobiography. But he is at heart a story teller. The way he paints pictures with his words is fantastic. His voluminous name drops aren't pretentious because he says them all with awe and love. Honestly just read it.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug abuse, Suicide, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

alisonannk's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Suicide, Grief, Medical trauma, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Excrement and Vomit

becphe's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Suicide, Vomit, Grief, Car accident, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

loey_h's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Grief, Death of parent, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

rachaelvickerman's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Suicide, Blood, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

itsheyfay's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Suicide, and Death of parent

slivkasn's review against another edition

funny inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Addiction, Drug use, Mental illness, Suicide, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

maeverose's review against another edition

medium-paced

3.5

This isn’t a book I would’ve picked up on my own as I have zero interest in celebrity memoirs, but I got it as a Christmas gift and I have to at least try to read any book that’s gifted to me or I feel bad. Lol. But I finished it, so that’s a good sign!

I read half of it physically and the second half I listened to the audiobook while also physically reading. I feel like that’s the best way to do it so you can both hear him tell you his stories while also seeing the photos included in the book (if you care about that. I thought they were fun). The audiobook also has an extra story at the end that isn’t in the physical book.

It’s very well written, I was actually surprised how much I liked his writing style. He really put his personality into it. I’d recommend this to anyone who likes Dave Grohl, is interested in reading about band life and someone slowly making their way to fame, or just if you like celebrity memoirs in general. If you’re a Nirvana or Foo Fighters fan, there isn’t a whole lot of focus on that stuff, it’s more just about his life overall. They’re both talked about of course but it’s not a big part of the book. I think you would also appreciate it a lot more if you grew up in the 70s or just listen to a lot of bands from the 60s/70s/80s.. Lots of references that went over my head, I wont lie (gen z here). A lot of the stories are about him meeting various idols of his, which got a bit redundant for me after a while. Surprisingly my favorite stories were the ones about his family and relationship with his daughters. I don’t usually care to read domestic stuff but you can tell how much he loves his family and I found those stories to be very heartwarming. He seems like a really nice and optimistic person.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Blood, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cursing, Death, Suicide, and Grief

Minor: Alcoholism and Vomit