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My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Autobiography of Errol Flynn

My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Autobiography of Errol Flynn
By Jeffrey Meyers

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #557327 in Books
  • Published on: 2003-01-28
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 464 pages

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Synopsis
Scandalous film star Errol Flynn tells all in this autobiography, detailing his pre-Hollywood career as a mercenary, and his trial for rape in 1943.

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Excellent!5
Not quite what he seems, Flynn. Films and fame apart Flynn gives a view of life within a public life. His marriages, the 'rape' trail, his love for the ocean. A truly recommended read

Very entertaining (auto)biography of THE Hollywood superstar5
If you're interested in Flynn or the 'golden age' of Hollywood', you MUST read this!

Almost 40 years after his death, Errol Flynns exploits (or 'Flynnanigans') continue to amuse and intrigue everyone who reads them. This book was actually ghostwritten by a journalist, Earl Conrad who inists that he wrote it exactly as the vodka fuelled, morphine addicted swashbuckler told it. The book is full of blatant innaccuracies and downright untruths but still makes great reading. Flynn hated to bore an audience and was never one to let the truth or facts get in his way. He was a superb racontuer and this comes over in the book via his tales of the golden age of Hollywood and his subsequent demise and resurgence as a character actor, none of which I will repeat as this would spoil the party. It's all here - his loves (the sea then girls), his films (a chancer and he admits is) and the fortunes he won and lost. If you enjoy this, then you might like the following...

'Moons a balloon', 'Bring on the empty horses' by DAVID NIVEN. 'Errol Flynn: A Memoir' by EARL CONRAD

Simply wonderful5
All you've read about this book is true. It is magnificent, and I don't say that very often. You'll struggle to ever read an autobiography as brilliant as this one. Flynn's writing style compares with the greats; he comes across as unpretentious, ebullient, wise, modest and very, very special. While accessible and entertaining, the book is incredibly literate and full of insights into the human condition. I urge you to read this, whoever you are, it is a triumph.