A review by sezzaj
Sing Backwards and Weep: A Memoir by Mark Lanegan

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

3.5

Don't get me wrong I loved this book. It's raw, brutally honest and emotionally charged. This is what is both fantastic about this book... and its downside. It is hard to wade through just over 300 pages of someone reeling from emotional trauma, consumed by addictions and perpetually making self sabotaging and self destructive choices. The emotions are raw, the pain blindingly obvious and the resilience extraordinary. Lanegan should have been a music legend in his own right - every bit as much as Kurt, Eddie, Chris et al. Sadly his addictions meant he squandered opportunities and wasted his incredible talent. This book was equally relentless and brilliant.