The Death of Cool: From Teenage Rebellion to the Hangover of Adulthood

One of the most entertaining books I have ever read

I love McInnis he's so funny, I read this in 2 days, stayed up late exhausted after work as I couldn't put it down. Buy it

There's a quote on the front that says "A bible waiting to happen" and I think that's downplaying the uniqueness of this book.The entire 271 pages are so streamlined, it felt like I was ice skating with my eyes shut towards the terminal full stop. Not once did my sub conscious yawn "I'm no longer immersed". I finished it from start to finish in 21 minutes.To concisely describe this book to a novice, i'd conjour the image of the "Howler" from Harry Potter in which the letter undressed itself out of the envelope and literally screams out the message to the recipient.THIS BOOK IS ALIVE. IT KNOWS WHO IT IS. I finished this book having Gavin's voice subsume my own inner monologue. Why? Because funny, confident, facetious, honest, intelligent men get remembered.Buy this book.

A rather disturbing insight into the mind of a man I would call a genius. Disturbing in so far as you find yourself engaged, observing the depravity, taking in the adolescent horror, the youthful ambition and general thrust of a man who gives little in the way of f***s; worst of all you find yourself coveting such a life. When you put the book down you may look back in regret at not having bumped heroin in front of two recovering addicts, simply to tempt them, you may find yourself pining for a positively liberal [in its disregard for ethnicity] threesome or even signing two months of summer away to plant trees in the Canadian wilderness. Mcinnes is a fine author, the book comes across as if you've just met him at the pub and ask him what he's been up to for the last 25(ish) years. Haunting, harrowing and above all else, enlightening.

funniest book I have ever read

What a read. I won't go into too much detail and ruin the brilliant stories from within this book but for someone interested in journalism and the rise and fall and rise and subsequent fall (in my opinion) of Vice this is perfect.The stories involved are bonkers; drugs, sex, violence and money all involved. It's easy to read and as someone who doesn't read a whole lot I was surprised at how quickly I got through this. Eager to read more by Gavin.Wish I had not lent this book to a friend who moved away as I will most certainly be wanting to give it another read at some point.

I did not expect to like this book. In fact I very much did not want to like this book, as I thought Mcinnes to be a borderline nutcase with a penchant for abusing people. If the stories conatined here are true then he is definatley a nutcase with a penchant for abusing people, but it was an amazing read nevertheless. Hilariously funny in parts, it's the story of a true iconoclast that only America could make rich.

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