A Liar's Autobiography

A must read if you are a lover of all things Python. Its a little hard to follow at the beginning but then again it is Graham Chapman. Enjoy.

This stream-of-conscious autobiography provides a Gonzo-style journey that goes from zany to sincere to poignant; it would've made Hunter S. Thompson green with envy. A must-read for any Python fan.

I'm a big Graham Chapman fan and it was fun to see a bit of how he thought and what was going on in his life at the time. A missed talent and a must read for any Chapman fan.

This has its amusing bits, but it is certainly not an autobiography in any true sense of the word. Chapman is so busy mystifying and spell-binding that, within a few pages, the reader understands that nothing in the book can be accepted as fact, and in my case, I lost interest in the project. I put it down about a third of the way through and am not sure when I will be in the right mood to give it another shot.It just might be great, but the style of the thing wore me out.

Is there any way to encapsulate Graham Chapman's great comedic talent? No. But he tries in his own autobiography, anyway. A gift to those of us who truly appreciate the absurd from the master himself, this book is a must for anyone who enjoys Monty Python and those who just don't get it. After reading this book, I feel I understand this great pouf even more than watching the Python movies.I'm just sad that his last video appearance was in an Iron Maiden video...

What I liked most was being asked if I’d like to “Follow the Author and get new release updates.” ... I thought that was pretty Python of Amazon.

Graham Chapman was a talented, funny, complex man who had his demons. That's why I thought his autobiography (along with four co-authors) would provide some additional insight into the man. It did but at quite a cost. Parts of it are written in a Python-esque manner where the reader feels as if he is reading a script for a MP episode: footnotes, footnotes for the footnotes........tedious, to say the least.If you're looking for an informative but tiring read, I highly recommend this book.

I loved reading Graham Chapman's autobiography (I have the original hardcover first edition of it), but I had no idea that he recorded an audiobook of it. Extremely rare to have done this back in the 1980s.He is as masterful as ever in telling his own story.

Just didn't get it. Certainly not an autobiography in the trusted sense. More an assembly of disjointed, rambling anecdotes, nor helped by dreadful punctuation and lack of spacing. Sometimes the lines were no more than trains of (unconnected) thoughts. The puerile cartoons added absolutely nothing to proceedings. In fact, some of the writing was as unfunny as some of the Python sketches I recall. I hope he enjoyed his life. I certainly didn't enjoy this book.

Fascinating autobiography of one of the brightest stars we have ever seen. He died too young, so sad that he virtually drank himself to death, such a remarkable talent, all told with searing honesty, compassion, modesty and wit. We're so much poorer without his voice

Bought as a present - - well received.

Pythonesque in structure but lacking in detail.

¿Fue Graham Chapman un genio de la comedia o simplemente un loco de atar? Ni siquiera los otros cinco python-genios lo saben a ciencia cierta. Lo de la locura no es ninguna tontería: En su escritura y sus actuaciones siempre hubo un punto esquizoide que casaba muy bien con la idiosincrasia del grupo.Es increíble como un hombre que era prácticamente incapaz de hablar en serio de nada fuese a la vez el único miembro de los Python en quien podían recaer los papeles serios.La autobiografía tiene todo el sentido, porque la vida de Chapman, de haber sido ficticia no hubiese podido casar más con una vida novelesca. Desde la homosexualidad, la excentricidad, el alcoholismo a la genialidad en todo lo que hacía o escribía, todo eran notas disonantes y armónicas a la vez. Era, en opinión del también grande y loco Terry Gilliam, el único verdadero anarquista del grupo.Solo a Graham -escritor de comedia toda su vida- podía ocurrírsele grabar su biografía en vez de escribirla. Y solo a él mezclar la realidad con la fantasía y los deseos, sin aclarar nunca cual era cual.Por último, aunque no se refiera al libro, la adaptación cinematográfica de la biografía es simplemente otra genialidad, el mejor homenaje posible a ese gran genio de la comedia que fue Graham Chapman.