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Dino: Living High in the Dirty Business of Dreams Paperback – April 13, 1999

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From dealing blackjack in the small-time gangster town of Steubenville, Ohio, to carousing with the famous "Rat Pack" in a Hollywood he called home, Dean Martin lived in a grandstand, guttering life of booze, broads, and big money. He rubbed shoulders with the mob, the Kennedys, and Hollywood's biggest stars. He was one of America's favorite entertainers. But no one really knew him. Now Nick Tosches reveals the man behind the image--the dark side of the American dream. It's a wild, illuminating, sometimes shocking tale of sex, ambition, heartaches--and a life lived hard, fast, and without apologies.

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April 13, 1999
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5.27 x 1.39 x 7.97 inches
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038533429X
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978-0385334297
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Nick Tosches has written several biographies including Dino: Living High in the Dirty Business of Dreams; Hellfire: The Jerry Lee Lewis Story; and Unsung Heroes of Rock 'n' Roll: The Birth of Rock in the Wild Years Before Elvis. He was born and raised in New Jersey and lives in New York.

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Publisher : Delta; 1st edition (April 13, 1999)
Language : English
Paperback : 656 pages
ISBN-10 : 038533429X
ISBN-13 : 978-0385334297
Item Weight : 1.15 pounds
Dimensions : 5.27 x 1.39 x 7.97 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #557,983 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #145 in Performing Arts Reference
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K. B. Mei

DO NOT BUY: This is more than likely a bootleg than a legitimate release.

Reviewed in the United States on November 1, 2019

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DO NOT BUY: This is more than likely a bootleg than a legitimate release. Every page is littered with bad formatting, misspellings and gaps where letters should be. Unreadable. Contents page is useless. The cover is a photocopy of someone's smudged and wrinkled paperback edition. It's an insult to the author and a shame considering this is the first time appearance of DINO on Kindle, and long awaited. Look at "Peter Lawford" and "Joey Bishop" on the attached grab.

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Kevin Plottner

Not a legitimate Kindle book

Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2019

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Warning. This is clearly NOT a legitimate kindle book. The “book” is riddled with grammar and punctuation errors, not to mention the many out of place hyphenations. Amazon: Why is something like this even permitted in the kindle store?!

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Studebacher Hoch

Brilliantly written book on Dino!

Reviewed in the United States on January 13, 2020

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Meticulously researched, it allow Tosches to go off in very compelling directions. His writing style and use of language is incredible - the book reads like a really good novel. And he provides a great context for the rise and demise of Dino by pulling apart the "culture" of post-war USA. As unknowable as Dino was, so was the strange era into which he became a star. One of the very best biographies I've ever read.

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Timothy Donahue

Was This Translates from the Original Chinese?

Reviewed in the United States on July 14, 2020

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Imagine someone three sheets to the wind sits down to gather some Dean Martin history and study Italian out of a translator's book on Italian, doesn't know what proofreading is and decided to keep drinking and writing. By the end the author is completely incoherent and apparently passed out before finishing the book. Thankfully. The end product is this work "Dino."

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Great literature and worth reading even if you're not particularly ...

Reviewed in the United States on July 5, 2018

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Another magisterial work by Tosches. Great literature and worth reading even if you're not particularly a Dean Martin fan (as I am not.)

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Ethan Brown

Kindle version unreadable due to typos and...transcription errors?

Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2020

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I had to stop reading this book a quarter the way through. I don't know if it was...transcribed from the audiobook by non-English speakers or what, but it's practically unreadable. Not just the occasional minor error that you can forgive but entire sentences that are rendered incomprehensible. Borrowed a print copy from a friend...great book, when you can read it!

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Margo

Dino was different

Reviewed in the United States on March 6, 2021

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There were a million typos. Pretty annoying. However, the story of thus unusual entertainer was worth it. I wish a few things I knew were in the book (he was a neighbor in the Palisades) but it had the right feel, and I think captured his essence.

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James Ray Bowers

It is a good book.

Reviewed in the United States on December 5, 2020

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Love the book

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Sam Pilart

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 31, 2015

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Cool story good writing fascinating enigma of person. We never know him.

ajhughes1988

Dino worth a read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 30, 2014

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It is a long book but well worth a read. It is not only about Dean Martin it also tells you about the growth of America in the 1940's and Dean's rise to fame. Fans of Dean Martin should check this book out.

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Best Martin Bio available

Reviewed in Canada on September 10, 2020

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Keep in mind this review follows my reading of James Kaplan's epic two volume biography of Frank Sinatra, therefore, there is going to be a comparison. Kaplan's books were one of the best biographies of an entertainer that I have ever read. At a little over 400 pages, Tosches' bio of Dean Martin is considerably shorter but considering the subject it makes sense. Unlike Sinatra, who lived with his heart on his sleeve and was an open book, Martin was a mystery to practically everyone. No one really knew him and he rarely, if ever, let anybody in. Tosches is a very good writer though, and he really tries to understand Martin, given the limited information about what went on in the entertainers mind. Almost all the information is passed down from people who "knew him", at least the best they could. There is a good background to his early life and career and a large middle portion dealing with his partnership with Jerry Lewis. Sometimes it seems too much, but again it helped bring insight. Tosches can get very flowery with his language when describing the essence of Martin. But again, he has to draw on a lot of opinion. There is a mixture of his film and music career with, again, a lot of insight from others. Not as in depth as what you would read in Kaplan's Sinatra, because Dean did not seem to take either too seriously, certainly not like Sinatra. Everything was pretty much lackadaisical to Martin. He came across as aloof, yet warm to others, which is as paradoxical as you can get. It read as though Martin from the 40s to 60s pretty much cruised through life without a real care. The 70s, 80s, and 90s did not seem as kind and the author makes it seem as he was just sailing aimlessly to his eventually death, with an attitude that nothing was really meaningful to Martin. I had mixed feelings about the ending, it really did not add closure, just a very strange last chapter that had a dreamlike quality. The writing here is very good, direct and a little raw when it has to be, and insightful when needed. You will come out of the read not really knowing much more about Dean Martin the man, but as much as anyone possibly could. There is a line that the author paraphrases but does not directly attribute to anyone, and I will modify, that goes like this: Life is just a dream between the cradle and the grave, don't worry or think too much about it, and it you will be able to endure it longer and easier. That about sums it up when it comes to Dean Martin, the definition of cool.

michael c cowie

Disappointing on many levels

Reviewed in Canada on February 2, 2020

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Kindle edition... Words spelled wrong...like it was transcribed phonetically... or drunkenly....to the point that in many instances you couldn’t even figure out the word in context. Little or no editing. The writing was at times crude, awkward and dated in a misogynist, sexist, homophobic and racist way. I did regrettably finish the book only to discover the horribly conceived final paragraphs. Pass on this one.

Robert P. Brown

Tosces Has Done For Martin...

Reviewed in Canada on July 17, 2014

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what Boswell did for Johnson, (well almost).
Tosches, who Esquire called the best writer in America today, has put extensive time and research into the life, times and influences of one of the best all around entertainers of the twentieth century.
It's all here, the ups and downs, the good and bad, warts and all. Occasionally some writer's license taken, but overall a fascinating study.
Included is a complete discography and filmography.
If, having read the book you would like to hear more of his early music, I recommend the Real Gone Jazz 4 CD compilation of LP's from 1957 to 1962, available on Amazon.

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