You Can't Win
by Jack Black
Taste attributes: biographydocumentarycrimefresh & originalunsavouryheavyrealisticlinearemotive & stirringhuman spirit/resilience/survivalself destruction/implosion
Boxlist takeRealistic and heavy: a morally murky biography, emotive rather than low-key. Best if you like depth over escapism.
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Pace: balanced · Originality: fresh · Tone: very dark · Weight: very heavy · Realism: true to life · Story: balanced · Structure: linear · Look: balanced · Scale: balanced · Emotional punch: stirringHow we score
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3.8 / 5
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About This Book
William Burroughs, at the age of 13, was inspired by this book, as he mentions in a preface to Naked Lunch. You Can't Win is a memoir that explodes our ideas about the supposedly lawful past; Jack was a drifter, robber, junkie, and hustler that survived from the frontier times til the depression era...apparently. He became a librarian of sorts, wrote his memoir, and then vanished...
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- Author
- Jack Black
- Published
- 1926
- Pages
- 394
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- Open Library
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