Dee Dee Ramone doesn't quite know what he's getting himself into when he and his wife Barbara move into the squalid Chelsea Hotel with their dog Banfield. He spends most of his time trying to score drugs and walking Banfield, with whom he can magically communicate. Meanwhile, he can't stand his neighbors and shies away from violence, but wishes everyone were six feet under. He also thinks that the room he's staying in is the very room where his old friend Sid Vicious stabbed Nancy Spungen, and begins having nightmares of Nancy emerging from the bathroom with a knife wound. After one of his nightmares, an evil force enters his hotel room and hurls him against a wall. Dee Dee also gets involved with the transvestite lover of one of his gay fellow addicts. When his wife finds out, the two fight it out and become seriously wounded. During all this, Dee Dee is tormented by the living and dead demons that plague the hotel, along with the ghosts of his old dead punk rock friends Sid Vicious, Johnny Thunders and Stiv Bators. And that's when the Devil himself decides to join the party...
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0
i love reading this book:
I read this book while at college when a friend lent me a copy when I told her I loved the Ramones and that DeeDee was my favorite Ramone. I recently purchased this book because I wanted to read it again, and have it permanently on my shelf so that I might lend it to others. DeeDee tells this story of his day-to-day gripes and grumbles of living in New York city at the Chelsea Hotel with his wife Barbara and dog Banfield. He is such a funny, yet sincere guy, and his writings crack me up and make me... more info
I'll give it five stars in Dee Dee Ramone's memory. . .:
I have to say, to expect this to be a piece of literary classic genius is ridiculous. If you go into it with this fact in mind, you'll experience a truly enjoyable and mind bending read. Knowing that you're inside of Dee Dee Ramone's head, well, what's left of it, is truly intriguing. I think that the funniest aspects of this book, his relationship with his dog and his fear of Tiger Leprosy, were not only entertaining, but benchmarks of the state of mind that led to his death not too much farther down that... more info
Burroughs reincarnated...:
This is quite possibly one of the strangest, disjointed bizarre books I have ever read...since Burroughs' Naked Lunch. Dee Dee, as the central character, seeks to and ultimately manages to injest every hardcore drug possible. And he still finds the time to kill a transvestite, encounter the ghosts of junkies past and communicate with his dog. (Which is reminiscient of the post-apocalyptic film, A Boy & His Dog) The book is sickening but not in a blood and guts way. It's sickening in a... more info
Dee Dee Ramone Classic--Hey, Hey, Hey, Dee Dee WASN'T Home!:
I noticed the comment by a woman who was simply disgusted and freaked out by this book...was she expecting Stephen King? "The Great American Novel"? C'mon, lady, why'd you buy this wacky book to begin with? It's Dee Dee Ramone--what'd you expect? Written as no one else could've done, these chapters, which start out pretty coherent, represent days in the life of Dee Dee Ramone at the creepy old, scuzzy Chelsea. While I believe some of the incidents are real, the majority of the book is Dee Dee's wild and... more info
