After reading this book I was so blown away I just had to post something on it. I grew up, at least in my teenage years on watching SNL. Wayne's World is what kicked it all off for me and from then on I was hooked.

    If you are an SNL fan, especially a fan of Chris Farley you really should get a hold of this book. Now I will admit, I am a total Spade fan but Chris was funny as hell too and I will admit I don't honestly know how the movies they paired up in would have turned out if Farley had not been in them.

     In 95 I went to see Tommy Boy and it was a reunion outing between me and a friend from middle school. Naturally I got her hooked as well on the two of them.

    As you read through the book, it's like reading an episode of E Hollywood True Story. And you get to understand so much more where Farley, his family and friends are concerned. As I read it I was surprised by a few things and not so surprised by others.

     For instance, the fact that Spade never attended the funeral, and the reasoning that people just could not grasp. People just couldn't understand the sacrifices he made for Chris, and the fact he did not want to remember him lying in a box. Believe me people, David was a lot better friend to him than you could realize. In fact he was more of a friend than I could have even have fathomed to guess.

     I honestly never felt any hostitlity about him not going. I already knew some about David and his past and understood.  I was more worried about how he was taking it.

     That day has become a permanent memory in my mind as I'm sure it has with all his fans. It's like 9/11 when people ask you where you were and what you were doing when you learned of it. At that point, I was really sick in bed. My mom was babysitting and I heard the name Chris Farley mentioned on tv so I jumped up to see what it was about.

      I must say my mouth hit the floor. The first four words out of my mouth were "Oh my God David". The next several days I was worried about how he would be. I mean...I had read about his problems in a magazine while we were getting an oil change or something I think a few months before. This was brought up in the book and made me recall. So, I was shocked but not so shocked you know?

     After reading this book I started thinking horribly of myself thinking I should not have been thinking of David I should have been more concerned for the family...which I was. I though how horrible and disastrous it had to be losing him right before christmas.

     A year before Tommy Boy came out, I had just broken up with my boyfriend I'd had almost all through high school. I had wrongly made him my world and neglected something I had started in grade school. My writing. After watching SNL, and reading up on the cast, especially the cute blonde guy who seemed to be a smart ass...I had an epiphany. I guess you could call it that. I learned he was a writer as well, went through hard times as well losing his stepdad, a best friend. I was a Spade fan from then on. When I returned to writing that year, I based a character off him in my book which is sadly no longer available, due to issues with the publisher.

     But in the words of Farley, anyhoo....reading this book made me realize just how complex he was but deep down just a guy trying really hard to be accepted in the world, doing whatever that meant. He was unbelievably amazing in ways no one could possibly grasp unless they read the book.

 

     In closing, I'd like to thank the authors for making the book possible for the public to read. I don't read non fiction very much, and it is not exactly my favorite genre but this book is very much worth the read.