Mustaine

The last book I read was the book Mustaine.  Reading the book about one of my favorite musicians has been a very eye opening experience.  Even after finishing the book and I keep going back and reading particular chapters.  Many issues are talked about in the book.  Family issues, drug use, betrayal, love, and it really is a true story of someone’s continually picking themselves up after terrible things had happened.  The author talks to the reader as if he is just casually talking to a friend at lunch.  He doesn’t try to be something he’s not and doesn’t talk down to anyone.  For more than half of the book the author is addicted to some kind of drug and it really brought up some emotions.  It made me think of some of my friends and family members that have tried so hard to break free of addiction.  I admire the author for allowing the reader to enter the world and see how crazy and bad things got over the years.  It also makes for some uncomfortable parts of the book and I was surprised as I read them. 

I sometimes have trouble reading, especially if it is an assigned reading.  I hear the words in my mind and then they are immediately lost without any understanding of what they mean.  Even in this book I found myself having to go back into a paragraph to find out what I had just skipped over.  It can be a very exhausting problem and I try mostly to visualize what I am reading about.  Of all the books I’ve read in the past couple years they have all been about heavy metal.  Recently I’ve found two autobiographies and before that it was biographies about bands where I knew most of the information already from the internet.  I enjoy reading the books that I pick out, yet it frustrates me that reading about a subject that I’m not that excited about is so difficult.