Dave Grohl - 'The Storyteller'

I am not a fan of Dave Grohl and the music he has produced. I find his stuff a bit heavy, too rock-y, and definitely not something that I would listen to voluntarily. In fact, the only reason that I had read his book was because I had heard it had some stories in it about Paul McCartney - and if you know anything about my blog, then you know that I'm a Beatles fan.

But this is without a doubt one of the best autobiographies I have ever read. It is funny, and candid, and quite simply not like any autobiography I have read before.

Dave Grohl doesn't focus on every single moment of his life, explaining in boring detail about how he first learned to walk in talk. No, instead it spends very little time focusing on his childhood, and it then covers sporadic times in his life. It is more of a memoir than an autobiography, with sometimes several years being the difference between chapters.

The way that Grohl tells his story made me envious of the life of a rockstar - as if I wasn't already!   It's full of good life lessons, usually written in what I assume is Grohl's own handwriting, and the emotions written into the book are real. I can almost feel them too. I am confident that if Grohl had not gone down the path of music, he could have been a writer.

And the book itself is gorgeous. The hardback - which I have - is a deep blue and is embossed with an outline of Dave Grohl. The inside leaf of the book is scribbled notes, and the handwritten life lessons scattered throughout make The Storyteller all the more personal.