rynisreading's Reviews (769)

I really, really enjoyed this book. Like most of the biographies I read, I know very little about the life of the subject - I usually just pick up the book because there's a hype around it or it seems like it would be an interesting tale.

Well, "interesting tale" is DEFINITELY what you get out of [b:I Am Ozzy|6952423|I Am Ozzy|Ozzy Osbourne|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1275674178s/6952423.jpg|7187129] - it reads like a fiction novel. Everything sounds so intense and scripted, it barely sounds like it could be a real life. Whether he exaggerates events or not, I couldn't say; but either way, this is a great read.

There are also some actual laugh out loud moments, too, which I didn't exactly expect!

I'd really known only the highly-publicized things about Ozzy Osbourne - the drug use, the bat-head-biting, etc. It's really interesting to read about these types of things straight from the person it happened to, and learn, for example, that when it comes to biting the head off a bat... it was actually a complete accident.

This book had a lot of potential based on the idea of the plot... but I found it to be pretty dull. It started out fairly promising but by about halfway through it was really just dragging on; it felt like the author had ran out of ideas and didn't really know where to take the story.

This book was leaps and bounds better than the first installment in the prequel series, The Carrie Diaries. I found that book to be.. well, weird and pretty boring, since it barely seemed to be the Carrie we know and there were no other familiar characters. In Summer in the City, we finally see Carrie in NYC and begin to meet our favourite characters from the series!

Not too much point in writing a review on this since thousands of people here already have. Unlike those reviewers I didn't love, nor hate, this book. It was captivating and difficult to put down. The writing style rubbed me the wrong way at first and while I never grew to like it, I did get used to it. I do wish the story had had more explanation as to what happened to make the world the way it was in this story.