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Richard Pryor and the World That Made Him
Jun 22, 2014smichal rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
kind of a strange book. This biography quotes RP's own autobiography! Other times lines are quoted directly from one of his 1971 stand up comedy routines. (I saw it on youtube!) It's a sad story - horrible childhood growing up in an actual whorehouse. As an adult he was a brilliant comedian but constantly using drugs. The way he treated women was horrible (beating them constantly and abandoning them as soon as they got pregnant). Then he got MS and died. Also I found the racism to be so strange. I never knew that things were so bad as recently as the 1970s and 1980s. This book also contains a tonne of swearing and sexual language.