Review: If you are around 30-40 years old and live in the London or the NYC area, this book can very well seem like a trip down memory lane. Sykes shares honest and humorous stories from his days before he checked himself into rehab and began a family. (Sykes now lives in rural Ireland with his wife and son.) Some of the bars and nightclubs he mentions still are alive in the city and would be interesting to visit after reading this memoir. I put this book on my Christmas list, due to the single fact that Sykes wrote for The New York Post's infamous gossip column "Page Six". (Being a Post subscriber, this is the first page I turn to daily for all of my celebrity gossip.) He also devised and edited the paper's bar column "Block Party", and its dating column, "Meet Market".This memoir takes us from his early days of journalist training at the Daily Telegraph and the Evening Standard in London to his drunk and stoned days at The New York Post in Manhattan. Overall, I have to say this is one of the better addiction sagas I have read and would suggest it to anyone who is looking for a "new" and "hip" memoir.
sites to check out:
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/home/
http://www.nypost.com/gossip/gossip.htm
http://www.radaronline.com/features/2006/10/drinking_drugging_and_page_six.php
http://www.creativewell.com/sykes.html
http://www.nypost.com/gossip/gossip.htm
http://www.radaronline.com/features/2006/10/drinking_drugging_and_page_six.php
