I do agree with the op as I feel to write one normally has some inspiration story to tell. I don't know about Leonas as I have read it, but if it can inspire some youngters to follow a dream, as they are the ones likely to read it, surely that should count for something perhaps.
But I agree if I was to read one it would be of someone I am intrested to read about and someone with more wisdom to offer.
some people can live a lifesworth of experiences in just a short time......and have volumes to tell regardless of age.
Am a Scouse Liverpool Football Club Supporter living in the city.
Yet this book is quality, Keane is very honset.
His views on the Modern Young Footballer that earns £ millions to his reasons for leaving a World Cup based on Irish National Identity / Mindset of:
Where only here for the laugh.
When Keane's mindset was if The Republic of Ireland have earned the right to enter a World Cup Finals WHY couldn't they win it.
Great man & great book.
A friend that doesn't like Football is reading my copy & now she's getting into the game.
It's about a person that has the ultra-high standards & attmepts to live in a world that doesn't.
I read Ricky Tomlinson's autobiography and came to one conclusion - he's not a very nice man.
im currently reading dawn french's and also got paul o grady for xmas, i do find it a shame that people so young do write a book but we all know what it comes down to and that is money, not only that the younger they write them, the more the can potentionally end up writing and cashing in on, well thats how i feel anyway. btw plz excuse the spelling
I've Barack Obabma's book dreams from My Father, first published in 1995, so has nothing to do with his presidential campaign and so on, but gives a real insight int him and his family background, really brilliant book.
Have read lots of autobiographies and Biographies on a broad range of people.
One stands out above all for me
Nelson Mandela - A long walk to freedom
The current trend of "New Celebs" writing about their lives and success after a few years sometimes months in the limelight is down to money and those around them. Such books books should be written after a number of years of experiences in their chosen area.
We both received a selection of auto-biographies over the xmas period and for our birthdays this year, and having read them only 2 actually stand out.
Alan Carr - a dreadful mind numbing book which feels like it was written on a wet wednesday afternoon in february when there was nothing on TV - and frankly had we known how bad it is we'd have saved reading it till that time re-occurs, and we would hope that the soaring price of fuel would force us to burn the book for warmth instead
Paul O'Grady - a terrific semi-conversational book that really takes you on his life journey and paints vivid pictures of his early life. We can't wait for a second volume - what a cliff-hanger ending! and NO! we won't spoil it and tell you how it ends.
We're still working through a number of others - Dawn French, Ozzy Osbourne etc and we'll keep you informed but we have to say that so far a good general rule of thumb is that the celeb in quetsion should at least wait till they've lived a life before telling us all about it (maybe 40+).
Laff n Chilli
I haven't read many autobiographies. Nigel Hawthorne's is fascinating - well worth a read. Stephen Fry's- Moab is my Washpot, is rivetting. It only covers the first half of his life so far - and was written before he found out he had manic-depression. I can't wait for the second installment.
I may be showing my age, but I can't see what a 23 year-old 'celeb' has to say that warrants an autobiography. If she's been a child soldier, or cared for her mum since the age of 8 then yes. But in 20 years time she will have seen and done so much more.
At this stage I feel she will simply be listing what she has done, after that 20 years she will be in a better position to reflect on the effect her experiences at 23 had on the rest of her life.
