Not the Life It Seems: The True Lives of My Chemical Romance

Tom Bryant's Not the Life It Seems is the MCR book I didn't know I needed. It covers everything from the New Jersey basement days through The Black Parade era and the breakup.

What I love about this book is that Bryant doesn't treat MCR as some emo punchline. He takes the band seriously as artists, which they deserve. The stuff about the making of Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge is fantastic.

If you grew up on this band, you owe it to yourself to read this.