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I'm an avid reader too. Just finished LAST NIGHT AT THE VIPER ROOM, the biography of River Phoenix, who as an actor was compared to James Dean. Brad Pitt said of River, "He was the best of all of us." He was older brother of Joaquin Phoenix. River died, age 23, of o.d. at Johnny Depp's Viper Room on the Sunset Strip, Halloween night. 
  I read the book in day and a half, it was so absorbing. I highly recommend it. Extremely sensitive & compassionate young man.