Reliable Memoirs

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The votes are in.

Last month, with a copy of Irish journalist David Diebold’s new flash memoir This Is How We Dance up for grabs, we asked you to nominate your favourite memoir.

You answered in your tens. But there could only be one winner.

Third place:

Just Kids by Patti Smith

Ger Siggins writes:

It’s a powerful story of love, art, music and death in 1970s NYC, told by one of the giants of modern music who knows how to tell a story. Can’t remember a memoir I ever wanted to read twice. Magic.

Runner-up:

Love Is A Mix-tape by Rob Sheffield

Catherine Vaughan writes:

A memoir of his relationship with his wife from first meeting, to her death, told through the mix-tapes they made for each other. Recommend by a friend, I expected a sort of real-life High Fidelity. I did not expect the level of snotty bawling while reading the last few chapters, as he described how Renee died suddenly in his arms from a brain aneurysm…

Winner:

Down and out in Paris and London by George Orwell

nicorigo writes:

In this two-part memoir, George Orwell tells us about his living in extreme poverty and squalor in the two capital cities between 1928 and 1929. Vividly sordid, full of bombastic characters, his truculent writing takes you from shabby hotels to miserable lodging houses, from sleeping rough in London to the dampest spikes. A compelling read.

Thanks all.

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4 thoughts on “Reliable Memoirs

  1. Toe Up

    I read Down and Out in London and Paris while working as a “dishpig” in Australia, so I felt a great affinity with Mr Orwell as a result. It doesn’t hurt that it is a fantastic book.

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