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Dice’s book was awful.
Obviously, you haven't heard of Compound Media. He has 10's of subscribers.
Robin's book was mostly fictional, and totally demented. They gave her reams of shit about it at the time, too. Jackie's was about what you'd expect. Howard's first book was pretty retarded, but the second one was a real piece of shit, with weird gimmicky fonts and way too much about his "cybersex" exploits.
Robin's book was a goldmine because she read her own audiobook and they used clips of it on the show constantly. Jackie's books were mostly his old jokes and other random jokes. Howard's books are hilarious in retrospective because everything in them are nothing but lies. Benjy ended one of the show by reading Howard's lame dedication to his wife and mocked him. His movie is literally some lame faggy romance story about his wife but from what we know now it should have been a story about Ralph.
What haven't we heard though? Or what don't we really already know about?
There has to be something from the glory days of shock radio that isn't already common knowledge. And even if there really isn't, I'd like to see an objective look back at the genre and the history, and not from the point of view of the participants. I'd buy such a book if it was less than $20.
That exactly what it's like, a children's book. It was clearly written by someone who had no use for the idea that words could be strung together in a pleasing, engaging manner. "Then I did this"..."this is what I think"...just nothing but substance-free fluff. Anyone who's actually pay for an Anthony Cuima book had already heard every single word of that book countless times, and that's what reading it felt like. It's like that alcoholic you used to go to high school with, who sees you at the bar and starts blathering about the good old days.
It was so funny he hired like 10 securities, on top of that he even called da cawps just to sign a book for bobo
Or that next afternoon, when he woke up all hungover and depressed, saw he has 32 new messages on his phone, then saw they were all from Joe. Took a lot of beers to chase away the feelings that day, for sure.
Can you elaborate on Robin’s book and why it was demented? That sounds funny as hell.
Some of this might have been revealed on the air and not the book. But Robin had some hilarious stories over the years. She talked about her father molesting her in the book and they kept playing the audio on the show during talk about normal sex. Like she would read a news story about married couples having sex and Fred would drop audio from her book about molestation. She talked about masturbating with vegetables and fruits when she was younger which was brought up endlessly for an entire year. There was a story about how she once shit herself running when she was on vacation and some guy hosed her down. Another where she met some stranger and they didn't have a condom so he banged her in the ass.
I remember seeing the subreddit shitting on it when it came out and going to a barnes and noble to read it all there within in an hour. It’s a fucking garbage autobiography. Aside from the Sue and Reddit shit he couldn’t even be real in the book aside from that. All the early life stories you’ve heard on the radio from Fat Buzz to treefort Richard to every antic with his Mom and Dad. All the “juicy gossip” of behind the scenes O&A was: this guest was fun to work with. Jimmy was a blast. Here are the things i hate Opie for that i’ve already complained about. The problem is a book about Anthonys early life and ensuing radio career has already been told to death and played out live over a 20 year radio show. Anything after the radio show isn’t interesting enough to write about and amounts to a chapter.
It was also more proof that Anthony was always a piece of shit. Opie said on air multiple times that they would never write a book. That they would never sell out and do an O&A movie or book because whatever they wanted to say they would say on the radio to the fans. The second that Anthony is on his own be begins writing a book of lies and basically marketing himself using Opie's name and their radio show and hoping that O&A fans will swarm to his book signings and make him millions of dollars.
Hoo hoo Robin, I did that first.
Robin was trying to market herself apart from the Stern show, like she was a star in her own right. She thought it'd be like with Howard's book, with the throngs of fans and etc. But absolutely no one cared, not even slightly. And the book itself was laughably terrible, full of wildly embellished stories and outright lies. Not too long ago, I heard a clip where Howie was brutally mocking the cover, and I always enjoyed Jackie's interpretive readings too.
One guy transcribed Nana's rantings, and the other guy did what he could to assemble those rantings into book form. No one really "wrote" anything. The funniest thing about his retarded "book" was that he was inspired to "write" it after he was banned from Twitter. THAT was his inspiration, Twitter. He even named the book itself after it. It's just mind-boggling how much tweeting means to the guy.