COREY TAYLOR - You're Making Me Hate You

August 14, 2015, 8 years ago

(Da Capo Press)

Aaron Small

Rating: 8.0

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COREY TAYLOR - You're Making Me Hate You

“Don’t think for a second I’m going to write a book that doesn’t try to make you laugh, cry, giggle, piss, and, most importantly, think,” says Slipknot and Stone Sour frontman Corey Taylor in his third book, You’re Making Me Hate You. This 248-page hardcover, subtitled: A Cantankerous Look At The Common Misconception That Humans Have Any Common Sense Left, is always an enjoyable read – and at times downright hilarious. Perhaps because it’s so easy to identify with the targets for Taylor’s “venomous brand of vitriol,” or his desire to “eviscerate the airline industry,” that these misanthropic musings bring such pleasure when experienced vicariously on paper, yet such agonizing pain when actually endured in real life. And for good measure, Taylor refers to Justin Bieber as a “cum wipe.”
 
At age 41, your author is coming into his own with “the whole Grumpy Old Man thing,” and readily admits the last time he “really gave a shit about looking cool was at age 14.” Yet he admonishes all of us with the warning, “Do not fuck with the guy who’s willing to go crazy to prove a point.” And while the Ministry of Transportation (or Department of Motor Vehicles if you prefer) aren’t likely to adopt Taylor’s “five new driving laws” anytime soon, just the prospect of such legislation is guaranteed to make you smile. Switching subjects, but no less incensed, Taylor classifies the modern parent as “a fucking asshole.” The Internet, reality TV, and modern music also receive a sound blasting, the latter of which “has the smell of used cat litter and tastes about as sweet.”
 
Not one to stand on the pulpit and preach holier than thou rhetoric, Taylor fully admits he is “just as horribly fucked up as you are,” and “normal isn’t exactly in (his) fucking wheelhouse.” Unafraid to take a shot or two at himself, Corey admits to being an “unapologetic asshole… with terrible anger issues.” Much like a stand-up comedy performance from the late George Carlin, You’re Making Me Hate You is full of profanity, yet surprisingly eloquent at the same time. Taylor’s observations of human behaviour are bang-on and pretty damn amusing.
 

 



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