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Title	:	Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi
Author	:	Bob Woodward
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 460 pages
Published	:	May 22nd 1989 by Faber & Faber (first published 1984)
Categories	:	Biography. Nonfiction. Biography Memoir. Culture. Film

Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi Paperback | Pages: 460 pages

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Okay, so I knew that John Belushi did a lot of coke, but what I didn't realize was that he did, like, ALL of the coke. Sounds like just about every gram of blow that was shipped to the US in the late 70s and early 80s found its way into Belushi's system, one way or another. This guy did more nose candy than all of Weimar Germany, and they did a whole hell of a lot of coke in Weimar Germany. No one sets out to have their life story become a cautionary tale, but if this isn't, I'm not too sure what is. The book is well written and compelling, and also serves as a "who's who" of Hollywood drug use during that time period (De Niro, Robin Williams, Dan Akroyd, Ed Begley Jr., et al). Super tragic stuff.

Details Books As Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi

Original Title:	Wired
ISBN:	0571141641 (ISBN13: 9780571141647)
Edition Language:	English URL http://www.worldcat.org/wcidentities/lccn-n50-111
Characters:	John Belushi
Setting:	United States of America

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pretty horrible, and i felt dirty after reading it. just because it was 25 cents at the thrift store doesn't mean one has to read it, i guess... that said, while i was reading it i couldn't look away - like a car accident. when i was done, i was like, Well, he wasted a lot of time doing drugs... but look at all the time i just spent reading this clueless book!

this guy did a lot of cocaine

I am still in the process of reading this book, but I am finding it really interesting and well-written. I understand that Belushi's friends and family did not like the way he and others in the book were portrayed, and I can see why. Belushi is fraught with self-doubt, destructive behavior and ideas, and inner turmoil. Anyone can probably relate to some of his behavior, though would probably not act upon it.

The problem with this book is not that Woodward is too tough on Belushi. He's too easy on his sources. The breakdown is this:Belushi, being dead, can't tell Woodward what happened to him. However, there are (literally!) hundreds of dope pushers, groupies, strippers, bikers, has-been comics, bar flies, scum bags, scrounge artists, movie directors, session musicians, and network television executives, who are HAPPY to sit down and tell Woodward THEIR version of John Belushi. And each and every one

For some reason I never got around to reading this book, although I read Samurai Widow several years ago. If you have read Belushi, or Samurai Widow, this will give you a flipped perspective. A lot of fans find this book offensive (I have seen several reviews complaining that it only portrayed him in the worst possible light and situations). I, however, found it to be a more objective perspective and found it to be a necessary companion read to the two books put out by his widow. She definitely

Hooper: Mr. Vaughn, what we are dealing with here is a perfect engine, an eating machine. It's really a miracle of evolution. All this machine does is swim and eat and make little sharks, and that's all. -JAWS (1975)I was thinking about this quote about half way through the reading of Wired. It is the perfect quote to describe John Belushi, without the "make little sharks" line. Belushi was beyond an addict, he was a drug shark. All he did was move around and take drugs. Reading this book is an

This was hypnotic. To even read of Belushi's talent put me in awe, and to read of his excesses made me wish I could simultaneously reach through to slap sense into him while shaking my head at the impossibility of getting him to stop using. This is a portrait of Belushi as a wildly talented performer and hugely excessive addict, and a surprising one from Bob Woodward. Some of Belushi's loved ones have a problem with this book, and given how meticulous and detailed Woodward was in his writing,