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Unless your name is Tiger Woods, there are no easy rides on the PGA Tour--particularly your first year--and no one's ever confused fun-loving Rich Beem's game with the Tiger's. Still, Sports Illustrated's Alan Shipnuck struck gold by picking Beem and his rookie season as subjects to chronicle in Bud, Sweat, & Tees: A Walk on the Wild Side of the PGA Tour. To begin with, he found a colorful player with a renegade personality who actually managed to confound the odds and post victory--at the 1999 Kemper Open. But there's more. As vivid a character as Beem turns out to be, his caddie Steve Duplantis, who'd previously toted for Jim Furyk, is a true rogue who makes Beem seem a choirboy by comparison.
Shipnuck provides all the necessary drama of life on the course, but the real fun of Bud, Sweat, & Tees is life beyond it, how Beem and Duplantis survive the highs and lows the game provides. At his best, Shipnuck manages to bring together their shared existence within the ropes and beyond, nowhere better than in Memphis the week after Beem's victory. He and Duplantis, who first caddied for him at the Kemper, have gone to Tennessee to try qualifying for the 1999 U.S. Open. That Beem misses is but a sidelight of the tour de force sequence that sees their relationship form against the backdrop of Duplantis cheating on his ex-fiancée Shannon--recalled by both Duplantis and Shannon, who's nannying Duplantis's daughter--as Beem is trying to focus on his game.
It begins in a bar, the three of them together, with Beem ogling Shannon as she walks to the ladies' room, and Duplantis calling him on it. "The player-caddie dynamic is always delicate," writes Shipnuck, "to the point that it is often discussed in the nomenclature of a courtship. For Beem and Duplantis, then, winning their first tournament together was like sleeping together on a first date--fun, to be sure, but complicated. If they were going to have a meaningful long-term relationship they would need a few more nights like this, getting to know each other." The nights--and days--that follow are as fun to read as the greens at Augusta. --Jeff Silverman
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The PGA Tour is the most interesting subculture in sports, though you wouldn't know it from most golf books. The Tour is home to rowdy, randy young men often drunk with money and fame; fueled by alcohol and adrenaline, they barnstorm from town to town like rock stars, with all the attendant excesses. And in each player's shadow is his faithful caddie -- performing a thankless six-figure job that comes with all the security of a handshake deal. The PGA Tour offers fabulous rewards, but its good life does not come without a price.
In Bud, Sweat, and Tees, Alan Shipnuck takes a no-holds-barred look at modern professional golf. Rich Beem, the hero of our story, joined the Tour as the most clueless of rookies, a logo-free rube only a couple of years removed from the straight world, where he made seven dollars an hour hawking cell phones. Beem took his winnings from big-money matches all across the state of Texas and scraped together enough to go out on Tour, but as he would quickly find out, getting to the big leagues is only half the battle. The fun-loving Beem, more likely to pound beers than range balls, first struggled to fit in among the country-club brats who populate the pro golf scene, and then had to fight to survive the cutthroat competition and crushing self-doubt. Staying true to his girl back home would prove equally challenging.
Meanwhile, Steve Duplantis, the one-time golden boy of the Tour's caddie ranks, was enduring his own tribulations. At the tender age of twenty-one Duplantis began packing for Jim Furyk, and together they reached the pinnacle of the golf world, from Ryder Cup dustups to near misses at the Masters. But like Beem, Duplantis has a taste for the wild life, which helps explain how he wound up as a single dad, trying to balance the demands of fatherhood with the siren song of the road -- a juggling act that eventually cost him his lucrative job on Furyk's bag. Fate brought Duplantis and Beem together, and in their first tournament, the Kemper Open, they pulled off one of the most improbable triumphs in golf history.
What happens next, at this unlikely intersection of lives and careers? How does a lifelong underdog like Beem handle overnight fame and fortune? Would Duplantis make good on this second chance and turn his career, and maybe his life, around? And would Beem and Duplantis's partnership survive the course of a turbulent season chock full of enough misadventures to land them in a Scottish jail?
Bud, Sweat, and Tees is a sometimes bawdy, often hilarious, and always unpredictable account of a strange and magical year in the lives, on and off the course, of golfer and caddie. An exciting and often poignant story, it stands as the best insider's sports book since Jim Bouton's Ball Four, and marks Alan Shipnuck as a writer of extraordinary promise.
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Winning Isn't Everything On PGA Tour.......2004-07-16
Alan Shipnuck is the best young golf writer going, and the proof is in "Bud, Sweat, & Tees." Was it a newshound's instinct that led him to chronicle the debut win of a by-no-means young rookie in a mid-level PGA Tour event in 1999, three years before that golfer would do what no other golfer ever managed to do, go head-to-head with a charging Tiger Woods in a major and win?
No, of course not. He just got lucky. But so do golf readers, because this wry, perceptive, and utterly addictive account of Rich Beem's trials and tribulations, and that of his caddie, Steve Duplantis, is surely a once-in-a-lifetime event. It's hard to imagine any other PGA golfer, at any point in his career, opening up to the degree Beem does here, as well as be complimented by the perspective of Duplantis, a once-promising caddy who bounced back with Beem after losing top contender Jim Furyk's bag a few weeks before.
Beem's a deserving center of attention, particularly in a moment-by-moment account of the first tournament Beem and Duplantis ever worked together, the Kemper Open in Maryland, the one Beem won. But Duplantis may be the most enduring character here, a guy who makes his own worst luck, but wins you over by wearing his heart on his sleeve.
As Shipnuck relates, Duplantis hits on a succession of strip-bar performers, then wonders why he can't have a steady relationship. He shows up late for practice rounds, and wonders why golfers lose patience with him. But when he says of Beem: "Does he want to be responsible and treat this like a job or does he want to get ----faced and stay out all night?" you know what he means even if it is pot-on-kettle commentary.
Beem has fierce drive, guts, and creativity with his iron shots, but what seems to drive him most is a desire for a good time. He ogles waitresses, downs Jack and cokes, and talks about hitting on Tour groupies in a way few golfers do, at least when someone with a pen or tape recorder is around.
All this candor could have blown up in Beem's face, but two things prevent it. One is Beem doesn't seem to care that much what people think. He's beyond social embarrassment. Two is that Shipnuck is not writing some leering tell-all to titillate the masses, but a very finely-tuned account of what makes pro golfers tick, namely what separates the good from the great. Reading about Beem makes you appreciate more a man like Tiger Woods, who stays hungry win-after-win. Beem's first victory, hard-earned and glorious to read, put him in a bit of a glidepath which went on for the next two years. You know from reading this that Beem has it in him to excel, but will he?
Add to this examination Shipnuck's way with metaphors, his unerring ear for the right quote, and an occasional way with a phrase that would make Herbert Warren Wind proud: "There is no room to write excuses on the scorecard, just numbers," Shipnuck writes, but golf is a game of color and life, and in "Bud, Sweat, & Tees" Shipnuck delivers both like nothing you've ever read before.
Odysseus Light.......2003-04-21
There is an ancient story of a man and his journey, this is the modern equivalent. In this book you get the story of Rich Beem [before he won a major] and his caddy Steve Duplantis. This has to be the most entertaining story Iýve seen in a long time, and itýs all true. We see the Rich Beem, former cell phone salesman and well-traveled golfer, shoot for his dream. In his quest he finds a companion in the form of Steve Duplantis, a love torn caddy that has problems in his personal life.
This is a great book first and foremost because it is superbly written. Alan Shipnuck has a relaxed and well-organized structure to his writing. Shipnuck, who writes for Sports Illustrated, took a gamble on writing this book, at the time Rich Beem hadnýt won a major, and stories of colorful, yet still second rate professional golfers donýt float amongst the bestseller lists all that often.
At a PG-13 level we see Rich and Steve live their lives in tour, under the microscope, and learn about events that neither would be proud of. Thereýs an intimacy here you donýt normally get in biographies. Rich wins a PGA tour event in his rookie year on the tour, Steve Duplantis has a good job with Rich, but do they hold it together for an entire season? The book will leave you interested in finding out more about Beem and Co. Maybe a sequel Mr. Shipnuck?
Itýs a need to read for those interested in golf, and itýs an quick and entertaining story for those who really donýt care about golf.
Can't live with 'em & you can't live without 'em.......2003-02-26
A terrific read. The story of two guys each with his own hangups, or shall I say self descructive traits, who find each other only to end up like the divorced couple that can't find true happiness apart. Great insight into the pressures of the tour showing how easy it is to fall from grace overnight. Fast paced and tough to put down.
desperation on the tour.......2003-01-21
shipnuck has captured a sense of desperation, grit, and 'let's go for it' that is missing from much of the media regarding golf. it's a great read.
Top notch, top notch!.......2002-10-07
Alan Shipnuck is the man! Great subjects plus a young 'with it' writer equals a great read! For years I've read John Feinstein's work and while he tells a good story, I identify with Shipnuck's style much more. I don't know if it's generational or not, but the words he uses and the quotes and stories he chose to include were perfect.
If you even have a casual interest in golf read this book.
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Rich Beem became an overnight folk hero with his victory at the 2002 PGA Championship, where he dazzled fans with fearless shotmaking and glib one-liners. By the time Beem had stared down Tiger Woods in an epic back nine and then danced a goofy jig on the final green, the sports world was clamoring to know, "Who is this guy, anyway?"
That question is answered in Bud, Sweat, & Tees, Alan Shipnuck's no-holds-barred look at modern professional golf. Shipnuck began tracking Beem during his rookie year in 1999, when he was a logo-free rube only a couple of years removed from a seven-dollar-an-hour job hawking cell phones. Beem and his hard-living caddie, Steve Duplantis, would find sudden fame and fortune, and Shipnuck enjoyed unparalleled access in chronicling their wild ride -- sharing endless drives across the desert and eventful nights at strip clubs, cutthroat golf matches and late-night confessionals at assorted watering holes.
The result is an intimate portrait of two exceedingly colorful characters. Beem and Duplantis invite us deep into the world of the PGA Tour, exposing the rowdy, randy reality of the most interesting subculture in sports, which has always been a well-protected secret -- until now. Sometimes bawdy, often hilarious, and always unpredictable, Bud, Sweat, & Tees stands as the finest insider sports book since Ball Four.
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Party-Time Nearly Sunk Beem.......2007-10-22
This is a great story of life on the PGA Tour. It's also a story of a common man "who made it big" by winning tour events and a major.
But he was also a man who was immature and who nearly lost it all by partying too much. The good news: he eventually realized it and cleaned up his behavior.
I have never understood the "let's party all the time" and "get blasted every night" mentality. But it's sold to us every waking minute by beer commercials as the way to be the hippest, and coolest person around. Tragedies just waiting to happen, and Rich Beem came very close to being one. Drink up!
Rich Beem and the PGA. It's Wild, But Not That Wild but Play-By-Play is Excellent!.......2007-05-01
The title of Alan Shipnuck's book, "Bud, Sweat, & Tees: Rich Beem's Walk on the Wild Side of the PGA Tour" led me to believe that Beem and Duplantis (his caddie) were going to be the Motley Crue of the PGA Tour. They really seem like regular golfers to me...strippers and drinking by a golfer? It is called the 19th hole as far as the sport goes.
Rick Reilly of Sports Illustrated gives a warning on the cover of the book that states: "Warning: Strippers, groupies, gambling, drinking: Someone forgot to tell Alan Shipnuck that books about golf are supposed to be boring". OK, there are some crazy times but this is not the best part of the book. In fact, this is the boring part of the story.
The best section of the book is the detailed play-by-play of Beems' win at The Kemper Open and activity thereafter. Shipnuck makes you feel like you are right there playing with Beem and Duplantis, he describes the smell of the golf course so well it's like Charles Dickens wrote it.
Details of family life, difficulty of travel, and general life on the road are also brilliantly explained. Life is not as sweet as one would believe when it comes to tour travel and Shipnuck captures this completely. The failures after a win will surprize anyone who reads this. Beem and Duplantis show that sometimes winning brings too much of what one has wished for. Shipnuck makes you think about what you would do in the same situation (if I could ever break 80!).
I think the "wildness" of this book has been a bit overemphasized, otherwise, it is an excellent read if you want to know the nitty-gritty of what it takes to make the big leagues.
Raw/Honest.......2005-11-08
I went to high school with Rich and even knew him at university. This book is a very raw/honest look at Rich and Steve. I admire his honesty and how open he was in sharing his rookie year.
I'm not sure I could ever look at Rich the same way, but I know that I will always wish him great success. He is an amazing golfer.
Didn't want it to end!.......2004-03-27
Great book, If you ever had a competitive bone in your body, you will love this book. A perspective on golf from an everyday guy like you and me.
Well written and very interesting........2004-01-06
Couldn't stop reading.
Wish there was a part 2.
What a brilliant and intimate portrait of those two characters (Benn and Duplantis)
The only downer is that it doesn't cover Been's victory at the 2002 PGA National, although the victory at the Kemper (in his rookie year, coming from nowhere) is one of the most well written in the history of sports book.
Two thumbs up.
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With its depictions of the downtrodden prostitutes, bootleggers, and hustlers of Perdido Street in the old French Quarter of 1930s New Orleans, A Walk in the Wild Side has found a place in the imaginations of all generations since it first appeared. As Algren admitted, the book "wasn't written until long after it had been walked . . . I found my way to the streets on the other side of the Southern Pacific station, where the big jukes were singing something called 'Walking the Wild Side of Life.' I've stayed pretty much on that side of the curb ever since."
Perhaps the author's own words describe this classic work best: "The book asks why lost people sometimes develop into greater human beings than those who have never been lost in their whole lives. Why men who have suffered at the hands of other men are the natural believers in humanity, while those whose part has been simply to acquire, to take all and give nothing, are the most contemptuous of mankind."
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Not exactly an uplifting read.......2003-07-03
I've read this book twice now. First in college for a literature class, and again 8 years later. Both times it depressed me. Granted, that is the book's purpose. To provide a realistic and tragic glimpse into the lives of some of America's least fortunate during the depression. Though it is interesting and well written, I can't say that I would tell my best friend to read it.
One of my favorites.......2002-12-22
This book is about people who have nothing to lose, so they can afford to take chances.
It's funny, sad and provocative. Yes, I know that some parts have been lifted from "Neon Wilderness" but it works for me.
My advice to anyone who's read the book but not seen the movie that's "supposedly" based on this book: DON'T.
You will be disappointed. The story is not the same. It's so different from Algren's book that Algren himself didn't even attend the premiere.
If you haven't read this book and are a fan of stories about marganalized people, then by all means, read it.
It shows the "downtrodden" as complex and real people.
Walking the Walk.......2000-12-15
Don't be misled by the title. A walk on the wild side? Sounds like fun, hey? Well, you can walk the walk, but you can't go home again, or if you do, you may be a little the worse for wear. Algren is a poet of pain. Highly recommended.
Algren's most polished work........2000-11-11
Country boy Dove Linkhorn, son of Fitz ( hell-fire preacher and cesspool cleaner ),defiler of women, smarter than he looks bum, leaves Texas for New Orleans where he fits right in for a while, with the depression-era cripples, prostitutes, pimps, flimflam artists,and prison-life.
Much of this book is a re-run of Somebody in Boots and Never Come Morning, with modifications. Unlike those books, the prose style is Algren at his most polished. Even so he overdoes it on many occasions where a simple statement would have sufficed. But redeems himself by pretty much avoiding the annoying switch in viewpoint within multiple character scenes that mar his other, otherwise excellent work.
Nelson Algren didn't write all that many books in his long career, a state of affairs that could be condensed into two titles: A Walk on the Wild Side and The Man with the Golden Arm.
A Neglected Classic.......2000-01-08
In a perfect world, _A Walk on the Wild Side_ would be remembered as Algren's best book, and would be read in American literature classes.
Algren is a much-needed antidote to both romantics who idealize the poor and to conservatives who feel smugly superior to the lower classes but have no real sense of the difficulties they face.
Its social significance aside, _Walk_ should be read by anyone interested in literary style. Algren's narrative voice--pugnacious, amused, and quietly outraged--explains why Algren has always been read by writers, even if a larger general audience continues to escape him.
(While it is true this novel reworks material from _The Neon Wilderness_, it is put to much better use here--read _Walk_ first!)
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Looking for a sequel.......2007-03-20
Loved it , want more of it, and you should buy it.
Tony Mitchell is a master gatherer.......2005-03-24
Tony Mitchell has once again triumphed in creatively gathering the most talented erotic photogropers working today. A definite converastion source at any dinner party that needs breaking the ice. A conversation, moreover, that could lead to genuiunely interesting exchages. This book is a definite turn-on, as are his other collections, such as "Fetish." Not for the prudish coffee table.
verstile book, not really my style.......2003-06-23
i love erotic phtography but i have to say this is not the greatest example for such a book.
the book show a veraity of phtographers with good CV and information, which's always nice to now, it's printed very well and is in really good quality and design. from that angle i have to say - it's better them most books i came across, my problems withit are mostly with editing and choice of photos. the book's sepearted in 4 diffrent chategories which i didn't see much diffrence between, most photos could appeare in all chapters (dadicated to - fetishwear, diciplane, bondage and extream play)., i would much rather have it seperated to artist rather then those sections. also a lot of those photos seem cheap to me, a lot of the models are playboy material (so not my kind of woman) and there's far too much skin and latex rather then anything interesting artisticly.
it's a good turn-on book, too bad it's shallow and not intelectualy stimulating as well as physicly.
A Real Treat!.......2002-05-21
This anthology is a solid collection of work from the best photographers working in the field of erotica today. The editor did a great job of pulling together a wide variety of styles, and the resulting the book is a real pleasure, full of pleasant surprises. I was introduced to quite a few photographers that are completely new to me, and there isn't a weak or dull photo in the book. It is very well printed too, with quality paper that makes the pictures really pop, and a solid binding that looks to hold up for years. And based on the comments of my friends, I think the book holds a strong appeal for both men and women. Strongly recommended!
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Lou Reed has been art-rocker, iconoclast, contrary noise merchant, and junkie, yet he's always been fascinating. Only David Bowie, arguably, has re-invented himself as many times as Reed, while ensuring that each image was potent, edgy and dangerous. It's a tribute to Reed's standing that even punk rockers, with their scorched earth policy towards all pre-punk music, had a healthy respect and regard for him. Velvet Underground is one of the all-time greats; but in many people's eyes, Reed has produced his best work solo, after the demise of that band. This groundbreaking book analyzes and celebrates the willful intellect, fierce intelligence, and literary merits of Lou Reed's post-Velvet Underground music. Chris Roberts has written about music for fifteen years for The Guardian, Melody Maker, Sounds, and Uncut. He was also the editor of Idol Worship (Harper Collins), a collection of writings by pop stars (Bono, Thurston Moore, etc.) that has been hailed in some quarters as "The best book about rock 'n' roll ever."
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an okay thing.......2005-08-26
this is a decent book i guess. the only reason to buy it is to see some rare lou reed pictures. the author's writing is cliched and boring. he sucks up to lou reed so badly that it's embarassing.
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Worse Than He Says He Is: Or White Girls Don't Bouce : My Walk on the Wild Side With Dennis Rodman
Anicka Rodman
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Truly awful.......2001-07-08
Let me start by saying that I am not a Dennis Rodman fan. I can now say that I think he and the author were a perfect match. For about the first 2 chapters I felt some empathy for Ms Rodman, however, as I read further I discovered that she was an immature, self centered, physically abusive woman. She constantly trashes the other women in Dennis's life, while behaving the same way. By the end of the book I had lost all sympathy for her, and gained a true sense of pity for the child that she and Dennis have. It is a shame that trees were cut down to print this book.
What people do for money, could just break my heart.......1999-08-11
America is truly the land of capitalism and opportunity. This chick has a baby by a known lunatic who abuses her, then writes a tell all story full of smut and filth, and then she has the audacity to expect us to feel sorry for her. Sorry!!!! I had a hard time seeing her as the victim, that cover is pure filth and ought to be burned. If my mother had the audacity to pose like that in a tell all smut fest like that I'd have a serious complex. No wonder Dennis dies his hair and cross dresses, with his dysfunctional upbringing and her as a wife and mother of his child I'd be a wacko too!!!!!
AWESOME!!!!!.......1997-08-27
this is a book that will keep you reading. I read it in a day.. and also read it again and again..
It's like a soap opera in a way, it makes you laugh, angry, sad, etc. It also makes you look at basketball (and sports in general) differently.
I am a Dennis Rodman fan; but after reading this book, I'm more of a Anicka Rodman fan!!!!
Degreating.......1997-07-01
I did feel for Rodman in the starting but as the book progressed it became more and more into that same old rodman who in this book still boggles the mind to think what he doe
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Walk On The Wild Side
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"Walk on the Wild Side", the first anthology to plumb the maze of American urban life, gives us the city in all its forms: ethnic, economic, religious, political, sexual, intellectual. Poet and novelist Nicholas Christopher has chosen 115 poems from sixty poets, representing more than twenty cities. These are not just poems "about" cities, or with the city as subject; they filter and radiate the diversity and vitality of today's cities, from the electric night of New York to the sun-blanked sprawl of Los Angeles, from the factories of Pittsburgh to the waterfront of New Orleans. A kinetic mix of new voices and established writers, "Walk on the Wild Side" presents the timeless themes of poetry through the prism of our unique urban experience.
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- A great insite to the "Worms" amazing life
- This book was soooo good!
- Fanstastic!
- Just as awesome as the first one!!!!
- Better than Bad As I Wanna Be!
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Walk On the Wild Side
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Perhaps you're thinking that two books by and about Dennis Rodman are at least one book too many. Nevertheless, Walk on the Wild Side, the sequel to the bestselling Bad as I Wanna Be, continues Rodman's story, interspersed with his singular views on everything from sex to drugs to rock-and-roll. Certainly Rodman is outrageous, but this book reveals his admirable willingness to stick to his guns; he abhors bigotry in any form, eschews illegal drugs, and defends his right--and presumably the rights of others--to express his individuality as he sees fit. If Rodman's intentions are honorable, his execution is often immature in the extreme--head-butting referees in defense of his independence is hardly admirable behavior. Still, Rodman's appeal goes deeper than his bad-boy image or his tie-dyed hair. There is something oddly sweet about Dennis Rodman's naïve faith in the redemptive powers of sex, in the individual's ability to constantly remake him or herself in a better image, and in the basic American virtues of hard work, self-reliance and patriotism--however strangely he might choose to express them.
Even those readers willing to consider Rodman's particular view of the world might be put off by the act of reading Walk on the Wild Side. Sentences in boldface, words and phrases that are capitalized or highlighted in black, and paragraphs presented in a different typeface--all for no apparent reason--leap from every page, merely print pyrotechnics that distract from Rodman's message. But maybe those fans who can get past Dennis Rodman's outrageous persona also will be able to overlook his book's layout.
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I have this fantasy that I can live my life like a tiger in the jungle--eating whatever I want, having sex whenever I want, and roaming around butt naked, wild and free...It sounds difficult and complicated, but it doesn't have to be.
Everything you need to set yourself free is right there inside you. If you close your eyes and concentrate, you can feel it in the blood rushing through your veins and the thumping of your heart. When you can feel your inner spirit, peace will overcome you, and you'll be ready to break through that mirror or fly through that window and flourish. Or it may be something as simple as opening a door and stepping into a land you've been checking out all along.
The Wild Side may be right there in front of you...
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A great insite to the "Worms" amazing life.......1999-06-17
I opened the cover of the book in hope of a good read. Now, I am not really your general type of book reading person. But I could not put the book down. Some of Rodmans quotes throughout the book are excellent. The book is mind blowing read that does not stop until you reach the back cover. I can't wait until I can get hold of the next title "As Bad As I Wanna Be"
This book was soooo good!.......1999-04-24
Dennis Rodman's Walk on the Wild Side is such a good book to read. While his first book was the all about him growing up and making it to the NBA, Walk On the Wild Side is his life after making it to the NBA and all the crazy things he's done and been through. A DEFINITE must read.
Fanstastic!.......1998-10-03
IT WILL ROCK YA! FROM HIS SEXUALITY TO HIS CARREER YOU GET TO KNOW WHY DENNIS DOES WHAT HE DOES! ALL I CAN SAY IS READ IT!!!!!!
Just as awesome as the first one!!!!.......1998-07-18
Walk on the Wild Side is just as awesome as the first book. When you finish it, you feel as if you'd been inside Dennis Rodman's soul. I love it because it's cool and it's much sexier than Bad As I Wanna Be!!!!
Better than Bad As I Wanna Be!.......1998-06-29
I am a Rodman fan but I found that his first book was very brash and not too informative. His second book is far more interesting and provides an insight into why Rodman does what he does. He explains why he hangs out in "off beat" locales and gives an insight into his life in the NBA. I think the most intesting point in his book is his relationship with his young daughter which seems to be very strong. Is Rodman really a softie at heart?
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Walk on the Wild Side
Jeanette Jones
Manufacturer: Barricade Books
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Binding: Hardcover
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Book Description
Walk on the Wild Side is a fitting description of this collection of provocative photographs of cross-dressers, drag artists and transexuals by London photographer, Jeanette Jones.
Here is a look into a world far removed from ordinary life. It is a world where some of the most beautiful women are men, and they wear an extravagant collection of outfits as they dress up, parade and live out their fantasies.
When" Amber Rose" introduced Jones to London's Madame Jo-Jo's, the legendary drag nightclub, she quickly won the trust of the regulars. She photographed the Barbettes, the nightclub's "Girls" -- a first in photographic history.
Jones describes how she was educated into this life-style; "Ambrose ('Amber Rose') explained the meaning of the different sides of drag. Cross-dressers aren't necessarily gay - women wear trousers, so why can't men wear skirts? Transvestites like wearing women's clothes for sexual pleasure. Transsexuals are men who have had sex-change surgery and lead lives as women - or vice versa."
Jones has become a trusted and respected among transsexuals and cross-dressers, and they have taken her into their confidence. In her role as reportage photographer, she carries her camera to record all main drag events.
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Sexy Shemales.......2001-08-27
Jones is famous for her portraits of drag queens and transsexuals from London's drag scene to Miami. A black and white photo essay shot mostly in London, Spain, Miami & New York. Provocative photographs of cross-dressers, drag artists and transsexuals by an often exhibited London photographer.
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