Books like Wonderland Avenue: Tales of Glamour and Excess

I owe this book some fanmail. It is a wonderland of uncut emotion. Did it make me want to take drugs? Maybe. Right up until the point where it didn't. It made me want to stick to my guns. It made me want to live for something bigger than me. There is nothing abstract about this book. There is no compromise. And that's who Danny is. We get to know and love him through his singleminded pursuit of his rock 'n' roll dream. For him, there just never was another option. How cool is that? How vintage is that kind of dedication? His adoration of Jim Morrison as an older brother figure, his discovery of a safe haven within the maniacal world of music and drugs, and the path of fate down which his life rolls are related with a wit so sharp and observations so universal, you will nod out loud in agreement. Describing his adolescence and young adulthood, tucked under the hypnotic leathery wing of the music industry before it even knew how big it was, his book embodies a time that will never be repeated. It makes all of us, even those of us who weren't born until decades later, feel a terrible nostalgia for it.