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Title	:	Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder
Author	:	John Waters
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 372 pages
Published	:	May 21st 2019 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Humor. Autobiography. Memoir. Biography. Writing. Essays. Audiobook

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No one knows more about everything - especially everything rude, clever, and offensively compelling - than John Waters. The man in the pencil-thin moustache, auteur of the transgressive movie classics Pink Flamingos, Polyester, the original Hairspray, Cry-Baby, and A Dirty Shame, is one of the world’s great sophisticates, and in Mr. Know-It-All he serves it up raw: how to fail upward in Hollywood; how to develop musical taste from Nervous Norvus to Maria Callas; how to build a home so ugly and trendy that no one but you would dare live in it; more important, how to tell someone you love them without emotional risk; and yes, how to cheat death itself. Through it all, Waters swears by one undeniable truth: “Whatever you might have heard, there is absolutely no downside to being famous. None at all.”

Studded with cameos of Waters’s stars, from Divine and Mink Stole to Johnny Depp, Kathleen Turner, Patricia Hearst, and Tracey Ullman, and illustrated with unseen photos from Waters’s personal collection, Mr. Know-It-All is Waters’s most hypnotically readable, upsetting, revelatory book—another instant Waters classic.

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Original Title:	Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder
ISBN:	0374214964 (ISBN13: 9780374214968)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Humor (2019)

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Ive been a fan or Waters from day one and have read all of his previous books. This one is a departuremore a how to guide to succeed in the modern world without sacrificing your individuality. Buttressed by tales of his movie making and home life, this memoir/how to is fascinating reading for anyone not just Waters fans. Highly Reccommended.

Dispatches from my spiritual leader are always welcome. This one was particularly enjoyable in terms of 1) a whole chapter on Cry Baby 2) lots of songs to look up on Spotify 3) the idea of buying cemetery plots with your friends. I will definitely be doing the Madison on your grave one day, John Waters, if I don't keel over before you do.

This book was given to me in exchange for an honest review...I absolutely hate to DNF books, especially giveaways...but this just wasnt going to cut it...I was suffering through just to get to where Im at now. Very boring and repetitive. Plus, the author talks about all these different people as if we know who they are. Of course there are a few names that are widely known, but the majority arent. I just had a tough time with this one.

DNF 20%I stopped not because I didn't like the writing, but because I think I'm burnt out on autobiographies/biographies at the moment. Waters is funny and his wit is sharp. There's some interesting deconstruction of his own works about what worked and what didn't with a sleigh-full of gossip about the cast and crew. Might be TMI for some people or the juicy bits that others are looking for. Anyway, no rating because I hope to give it a go again.

Have you ever wanted the wisdom of a gay godfather? Telling you about sex, drugs, monkey art, and death? John Waters is your man. Giving you his wisdom that will make you laugh till your stomach hurts. I made the mistake of taking it on vacation with me making my friends listen to excerpts that caused them to laugh. John Waters also dishes on his success and those that he has worked with. For this of you who have loved all the versions of Hairspray from the orginal movie to the Broadway Show to

Waters entertains with stories of how he made his movies, but then he veers into 1980s hacky stand-up comedy with airplane humor (flying sucks, amirite?). Ultimately, he saves the book with discussion of monkey paintings. More monkey paintings please.

I really wanted to be able to give this book a better rating. I like John Waters. I have seen some of his work over the years, and enjoy his contributions on talk shows such as Real Time with Bill Maher. I purchased the audio book, as I like hearing peoples stories told in their own voices, and I was not disappointed with that aspect. I went into this fully aware of who John Waters is and his love of taking things too far. His writing did not offend me in the least. Worse yet, it was just plain