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Scar Tissue
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When I first started reading this book I thought to myself what a self involved asshole! Which is sad because I'm a huge Red Hot Chili Peppers fan and really wanted to like him. In fact I had to have a little pep talk with myself so I could carry on reading. It went something along the lines of- "You don’t have to like the person to enjoy the book and find some worth in it." And that little talk stood me in good sted because I think I found the book even more fascinating after having accepted that Kiedis is not a very good person and seems startlingly oblivious to the fact.
He effectively wrote himself as the villain of the piece and he doesn't seem to have realized it. It’s just so interesting to me. I also just could not get over the fact that not once did he condemn his father who essentially got him into doing drugs at age 11 but would make snippy little comments about band mates and girlfriends at every turn for relatively inconsequential things.
But most amazing to me was that a man who clearly sees himself as a modern day poet wrote a 500 page book about himself and didn't include one introspective or self analytically thought!
All in all I would have given this book 5 stars had the continuous cycle of drug abuse and rehab not gotten a little monotonous.
He effectively wrote himself as the villain of the piece and he doesn't seem to have realized it. It’s just so interesting to me. I also just could not get over the fact that not once did he condemn his father who essentially got him into doing drugs at age 11 but would make snippy little comments about band mates and girlfriends at every turn for relatively inconsequential things.
But most amazing to me was that a man who clearly sees himself as a modern day poet wrote a 500 page book about himself and didn't include one introspective or self analytically thought!
All in all I would have given this book 5 stars had the continuous cycle of drug abuse and rehab not gotten a little monotonous.
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July 23, 2010
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Apr 10, 2013 04:31PM
i agree with your first comment...what an asshole.
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Lol yeah he really is an oblivious douch!!
Pretty much sums up any review I would have written
I felt the exact same way. I love your insight.
I'm halfway through. I was hoping he would pull through and grow up in the end.... not looking good
Same reason I continued reading. Book becomes so much more interesting when you take the view of psycho analysis of keidis
I don't know. It's hard/impossible to know what he was thinking - was he really unaware that he was writing himself as the villan, as you said? Maybe, but maybe not. We just don't know. We don't know what was going on in his head.Same with what you said about him being oblivious to the fact that he's not a good person. Again, we simply do not know that. We do not know how he views himself. He never said. Like you yourself pointed out, he did not include analytical thoughts of himself, therefore we simply do not know.
It's not fair at all to make assumptions, ie that he's oblivious, because we simply do not know.
Also, something I never see people mention is that this was not really written by him, but by Larry Sloman. L.S. is the co-writer, which really means he wrote it. So in terms of style, etc., folks need to stop blaming Kiedis.
I did, like you, find it interesting that he doesn't appear to blame his obviously crazy/absusive father for anything. I can relate to this a bit, as I was in a very long-term relationship with an addict - fifteen long years - and I honestly think I developed a kind of Stockholm Syndrom thing with him, where I felt very bound to him because he was the only one who knew exactly what I went through.
I've only heard of Stolkhome Syndrom in relation to kidnapping victims, in the past, but it honestly felt like it applied here. It was a bond built on trama. A trama bond. He was the only one who knew what I'd been through, sure, but that's because he was the only other one there, who saw it all, who knew all the myriad ways in which he abused and abused me.
I was really reminded of that when reading the way that Kiedis talked about his father. He didn't seem even remotely aware that his bond was a trama bond.
At least he was honest. A lot of people were crapping on him after this, and, of course, he deserved it, because of his abhorrent behavior. But I respect that he put it all out there, and was honest. You can condem the behavior, and still appreciate the honesty.
