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Howard Marks: Mr. Nice (Paperback, 2002, Canongate Books) 4 stars

THE BOOK: During the mid 1980's Howard Marks had forty three aliases, eighty nine phone …

Review of 'Mr. Nice' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

Mr Nice reads like a rock autobiography, and surely by design. Staring with fascinating background, moving on to dizzying highs, slumping with a really boring section full of lineup changes and then an inevitable tale of downfall. As with many rock autobiographies I found myself developing a general sense that the author just isn’t that nice a person. Fun, but not glorious.