Full name: Wired: The Short Life & Fast Times of John Belushi

Author: Bob Woodward Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Biographies Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9780671473204 0671473204

Okay, so I knew that John Belushi did a lot of coke, but what I didn't realize was that he did, like, ALL of the coke. Sounds like just about every gram of blow that was shipped to the US in the late 70s and early 80s found its way into Belushi's system, one way or another. This guy did more nose candy than all of Weimar Germany, and they did a whole hell of a lot of coke in Weimar Germany. No one sets out to have their life story become a cautionary tale, but if this isn't, I'm not too sure what is. The book is well written and compelling, and also serves as a "who's who" of Hollywood drug use during that time period (De Niro, Robin Williams, Dan Akroyd, Ed Begley Jr., et al). Super tragic stuff. Similar books: John Wayne by Scott Eyman Who Was Amelia Earhart? by Kate Boehm Jerome Audrey by Alexander Walker Audrey Hepburn by Barry Paris Private Demons by Judy Oppenheimer Salinger by David Shields Oh, the Places He Went by Maryann N. Weidt The Talented Miss Highsmith by Joan Schenkar George Orwell by Gordon Bowker Pearl S. Buck by Peter Conn Shirley Jackson by Ruth Franklin Charles Dickens by Jane Smiley Bravemouth by Pamela Stephenson Georgette Heyer by Jennifer Kloester Who Was Roald Dahl? by True Kelley Bonhoeffer by Eric Metaxas Wager with the Wind by James Greiner Like the Roman by Simon Heffer Memoirs by Pablo Neruda