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Lex Luthor Unauthorized Biography (July 1989) by DC Comics

Written by James Hudnall, drawn by Eduardo Barreto, coloring by Adam Kubert, cover by Eric Peterson.

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In these days, due to the intense cold finally arrived where I live and that I preferred to "fight" in front of the fireplace with the fire lit, I read the unauthorized biography on Frank Sinatra "His way" written by Ketty Keller. I bought the paper version in Italian from Amazon. Kelley has a writing style more like a journalist than an actual writer, the book flows quickly and is very interesting. There are biographical notes at the end so she certainly did research for the book, four years of research according to her. Many other books have been written about Sinatra's Mafia friendships (just search archive.org) but I didn't really know the man's bipolar nature. A mother with a very strong personality, who dressed him in pink clothes when he was a child, she was in charge of the house while the father was quiet and easygoing. "A practitioner" is described in the book. Sinatra was unquestionably as submissive to her as everyone who knew her. What Sinatra was "as an adult" surely was the result of a mother like his. He is described as the most famous and powerful singer/public figure in the world, nobody had the courage to stand against him. If everything Kelley wrote in the book is true I will continue to respect Sinatra as an immense artist (he was an artist NOT just a simple singer) but as a man I never wanted to have any kind of friendship with him. But that book has a flaw in my opinion: it doesn't involve the reader emotionally. It's like a long journalistic article, the writer lists the "facts" but doesn't try to enter Sinatra's mind to try to understand who he "really" was. Unlike Tosches. Tosches' book (also bought in Italian and in paper version) on Dean Martin is like a punch in the stomach. For me it is a real drug, I always want to read it and re-read it. It's distressing. Tosches wrote FROM GOD and did not describe Dean Martin as a deity (as everyone does) but he tried to understand WHAT was in that man. Tosches went deep or at least tried to. All the other Dean Martin books (very few actually, MUCH outnumbering those written on Sinatra) basically copied a lot from his. Tosches tried to make man human. Kelley only described the artist.