The Long Hard Road Out of Hell | 
| Authors: Marilyn Manson, Neil Strauss
Publisher: HarperEntertainment
Category: Book
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Rating:  439 reviews
Sales Rank: 6708
Media: Paperback
Pages: 288
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.9
ISBN: 0060987464
Dewey Decimal Number: 782.42166092
EAN: 9780060987466
ASIN: 0060987464
Publication Date: April 1, 1999
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Amazon.com Review
One doesn't usually think of rock stars as insightful, but, against all odds, glam-trash superstar Marilyn Manson has written a book that is actually an intelligent look at growing up. This autobiographical bildungsroman brings out the creepiest aspects of childhood, conveying the terror and fascination that young Marilyn (then called Brian) felt when looking through his grandfather's pornography, getting his first French kiss, and being taunted by the girls he wanted to "date." Manson has the benefit of having grown up as an outcast and loser and then having become a star without forgetting what he went through. This gives him an incredibly broad perspective, which he brings to bear on his ordinary life in order to convey the more potent and frightening moments that shaped him into the pale-skinned weirdo that the Christian Right loves to hate. Best of all, Manson is shockingly honest, and portrays himself as occasionally stupid, self-centered, over-sensitive, ignoble, and, mostly, highly fallible and human. It's a long way from the auto-hagiographies that other stars have written, and it's easily one of the best reads in celebrity bio. --James DiGiovanna
Product Description
From the world's most controversial rock star comes his shocking, confessional and revealing life story. In The Long Hard Road Out of Hell, Marilyn Manson candidly and vividly recounts his metamorphosis from a frightened Christian schoolboy into the most feared and revered celebrity in America.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 434 more reviews...
 Great book. June 12, 2009
CRAZOTOLOGY (Joplin, MO. (USA))
Funny, funny, funny. At times also sick, evil and wrong. Full of details, and Goth koookyness. I love it! A most entertaining read.
My Review June 7, 2009
Jaclyn R. Key (Loganville, GA United States)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Reading his autobiography makes me want to him Brian Werner even more. I was considered a outcast in elementary and middle school and know how it feels to be bullied. I did agree that his Catholic school teacher bullied him and calling him the Anti christ because he was Espolocian ( just another denomination of the Christian faith) he still believed what the teachers taught him.
I will probably give him a hug if I ever meet him just not caring what he has become.
contemporary American reality April 17, 2009
Edmund Zielinski (Kosovo)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you're unfamiliar with the genius of his music the book is still worth reading; if you're unfamiliar with the use of recreational products then you may miss some of the more salient points. It's nothing less than a indictment of our sick society & the misunderstand and unappreciated bi-products of that degenerative culture we call America. I found myself identifying with the man for a majority of the book; so there is another alien life form out there that still can't find his spaceship. The only criticism is that it just didn't last long enough; could have been much longer in my opinion....maybe he'll do a sequel!
 The road out March 14, 2009
Nathan Kiscadden (Akron, OH)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The title says it all. For anyone looking to answers as to where the movement came from to where it's going, read this book.
It's almost a coping biography that I'm sorry to say I loaned out and have never seen again.
Like Manson's persona, shocking, intelligent, and a bit contrived February 4, 2009
redstarr (Fort Smith, AR, USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The Long Hard Road Out of Hell
Marilyn Manson's book is a lot like his stage persona, shocking, intelligent, rebellious, and a bit exaggerated and contrived. It's a fun quick read. Parts of it are brilliant commentary on the people in Manson's life from growing up to becoming a star, life in the music industry, and society in general. Manson is obviously a smart guy and a good writer. That really shines through in parts of the book, like it does in the finer, higher-intellectual level parts of his music and stage show. However, even in the book, he never forgets to appeal to the cheap seats,too. He makes sure to include the tons of the shocking rock and roll debauchery that one would expect from a heavy metal memoir. Some of the things he mentions sound pretty authentic, but some feel a bit less than genuine. There's a bit of a feel of the book being artistry in places,not necessarily fully invented, but exaggerated for effect.
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