Don't Try This at Home: A Year in the Life of Dave Navarro
Andy Warhol was so enamored with Polaroids that he made special arrangements with the company to purchase all the overstock film of a discontinued model of camera. A similar photographic fetish is the organizing principle ofDon't Try This at Home.  For kicks, rocker and author Dave Navarro installed a carnival-grade photo booth in his L.A. home. The book documents a year's worth of visitors to Navarro's pad who all stepped into the booth to get their mug shots snapped.The resulting dispatch from Hell is as hard to draw one's eyes from as a twelve car pile-up. Intermingled with a parade of rock stars, models, prostitutes, drug dealers, pizza delivery guys, and housecleaners are a series of observations and interviews with Dave and his co-author Neil Strauss. Strauss, co-author of other tomes forJenna Jameson,Marilyn Manson, andMotley Crue, operates less as an editor than as a ringmaster to this debauched thing rock stars call a lifestyle.Don't Try This At Homeis one rollicking contact high of a memoir. Just set it on the coffee table at your home and watch how quickly it snares its readers.-–Ryan Boudinot