{"id":32651,"date":"2025-09-24T16:24:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T21:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/?p=32651"},"modified":"2025-09-24T16:24:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T21:24:29","slug":"duff-mckagan-how-to-be-a-man-and-other-illusions-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/24\/duff-mckagan-how-to-be-a-man-and-other-illusions-book-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Duff McKagan How To Be A Man (and other illusions) Book Review"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"32651\" class=\"elementor elementor-32651\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-8470834 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no wpr-equal-height-no\" data-id=\"8470834\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-d52c1f0\" data-id=\"d52c1f0\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f1f4670 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"f1f4670\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Duff McKagan released his second book, How To Be A Man (and other illusions) in 2015.<\/p><p>Duff is known as the bassist of Guns N Roses and Velvet Revolver, but is also the lead singer\/co-guitarist of the band Loaded, and was in the bands Neurotic Outsiders and The Walking Papers, and is a solo artist also.<\/p><p>But outside of being a singer\/songwriter\/musician, he is also a writer.\u00a0 And a very good one at that.<\/p><p>He has written for The Seattle Weekly (where he is from), Playboy.com, and ESPN.com, and released his first book\/autobiography It&#8217;s So Easy (and other lies) in 2011.<\/p><p>Duff is very smart, well spoken, and well read.<\/p><p>In his second book, he talks about being a father, a husband, a musician, a writer, being sober, being a sports fan, stories of being in his bands, going back to school after getting sober, book recommendations (as I said he&#8217;s well read) and so much more.<\/p><p>I found this book to be an excellent follow-up to this first.<\/p><p>You don&#8217;t have to be a fan or even know who he is to enjoy this and his other book.<\/p><p>This is a very entertaining, enlightening, and even inspiring book.<\/p><p>Seek it out and his other book 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Duff is known as the bassist of Guns N Roses and Velvet Revolver, but is also the lead singer\/co-guitarist of the band Loaded, and was in the bands Neurotic Outsiders and The Walking Papers, and is a solo artist also. But outside of being a singer\/songwriter\/musician, he is also a writer.\u00a0 And a very good one at that. He has written for The Seattle Weekly (where he is from), Playboy.com, and ESPN.com, and released his first book\/autobiography It&#8217;s So Easy (and other lies) in 2011. Duff is very smart, well spoken, and well read. In his second book, he talks about being a father, a husband, a musician, a writer, being sober, being a sports fan, stories of being in his bands, going back to school after getting sober, book recommendations (as I said he&#8217;s well read) and so much more. I found this book to be an excellent follow-up to this first. You don&#8217;t have to be a fan or even know who he is to enjoy this and his other book. This is a very entertaining, enlightening, and even inspiring book. Seek it out and his other book too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-book-reviews"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32651"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32660,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32651\/revisions\/32660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}