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I've read the biography Frank Zappa by Barry Miles. It's fairly thorough and decently-written, I enjoyed it and felt I understood the man a lot better after reading it. It's by no means a work of hagiography, though - Miles doesn't varnish the fact that Zappa was in some respects a pretty unlikeable character.
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The Real Frank Zappa book by FZ would be a good start.
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Grumpyprogfan is correct. "The Real Frank Zappa Book" has Frank's own take on his life and career.
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Originally posted by Grumpyprogfan Grumpyprogfan wrote:

The Real Frank Zappa book by FZ would be a good start.
Yes, and it's a good book indeed.
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Mother! Is the Story of Frank Zappa, by Michael Gray.
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Originally posted by Evolver Evolver wrote:

Grumpyprogfan is correct. "The Real Frank Zappa Book" has Frank's own take on his life and career.
 

Yep, this is the one I would recommend. 
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Hi,

I've read both books and am actually having a hard time writing a review of both ... one because it has stuff in it that I think was slightly manufactured, and the real one, because in the last quarter, it gets off the book and goes into some stratosfear of ideas ... although I would agree with him when it comes to the things he said about the wives in Washington DC pulling Lysistrata's to their husbands, to change policy! I find that disgusting and sickening to the gore!

But none of it is more entertaining which the Miles book does not have and is the complete dialogue in the English trial about obscenity in 200 MOTELS ... which of course, FZ won, but the Crown is not culpable for its crap laws, so the whole thing became an exercise in futility ... and the judge didn't even know what an "orgasm" was!
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