The book is filled with exclamation marks, ellipses, tense-hopping and mysterious ALL CAPS.Same commitment. It would seem like the less control you can exert on yourself, the more likely you are to have a best-selling book. If you’re a nail-biter like me, you’ll know what I mean.Is it fair to critique someone’s life? Is it fair to boo a musician at a concert? Is it fair for political candidates to be lampooned in public?As long as you put it out there for public consumption, I suppose it is.I will admit that he wasn’t ever my go-to rock musician.I had one major hurdle to cross before I could really get into Born to Run — the proofreading.Note: As a musician in NY at around the same time, pursuing the unattainable goal of jazz, I have interacted with some of the musicians he mentions, like Michael Brecker and David Sanborn. Most don’t. He wants it to sound perfect.It is politically very correct these days to admit to depression, OCD, ADHD, bipolar disorder, alcoholism, drug addiction, kleptomania, hyper-sexuality, anger and a whole host of other trendy ailments.
The tone in places is unduly excitable, leading one to wonder if some texting teenager didn’t perhaps get his hand on the manuscript.“One, Two, Three, Four — Mother *&%@&^,” says Springsteen.His musical journey is interesting, fun and exciting to follow.You can’t get a degree at Julliard or Berklee in how to bring audiences to their feet or move them to tears.)Springsteen was a big exception in the bad world of New York in the ’70s and ’80s, when you could buy any kind of drug at any time of day or night with no problem.Springsteen’s tragic, sadly pathetic inability to let go of his father’s rejection of him as famous Wood band saw accessory machine a young boy and the despair it seems to have caused him right through his life, even past the older Springsteen’s death, is compelling. This book could be a sincere outpouring from the heart, but there is a certain ring of insincerity that I can’t shake. There’s no “Encores for Dummies” guide
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