I'm currently reading Bob Dylan's Chronicles. Taking into consideration that he once stated he'd never write an autobiography, it's an interesting read so far. I'm about halfway through it, and his memoirs of the early 60s and early 70s are spectacularly detailed.

I didn't know much about Dylan to begin with, but I'd already owned several of his albums for a while. It's written in such down-to-earth, simple language, yet manages to portray any scenario in a straightforward poetic form. I wrote on another forum that it's almost like one long, chronological poem.

It leaps straight from the early 60s to the early 70s, and the next chapter to the mid-80s, so I suppose it's just a few selected memoirs of his 4-decade career. Describing his whole life in such detail as in Chronicles would take a hell of a lot of paper. It's also filling me in on a lot of music of the mid-20th century.

I'm enjoying it so far.