Q, The Autobiography of Quincy Jones By Q
	This is truly a case where it is better to listen to a book than to read it. Quincy, himself, narrates his story, but you get the delight of hearing the voices of his son, one ex-wife, Peggy Liptoin, Ray Charles and many others who filtered in and out of Quincy's bad times-good times-bad times-good times life. Our first shock came when we learned  that his grandmother fed Quincy and his brother fried rats which they caught by the river in Kentucky, for dinner. FRIED RATS!. It just seemed to be a dichotomy of his current lifestyle and hardly the imagined beginning for this stellar man.             His personal relationships shaped his life - beginning with his mother.  Quincy did not hide the resentment he felt for his mother because she became  mentally ill causing Quincy and his brother to live with their grandmother.  We felt her confinment to an insane asylum for most of Quincy's  life to be indicative of how Black people with mental illness were treated.  In our minds, however, she was redeemed because as soon as she was released, she went on a mission to find her boys.  We could not figure out how she got the money, but she also paid for Quincy's  education.             We shared Quincy's admiration for his father, Quincy loved him as much as life itself despite the fact his father didn't support him when his stepmother was treating him badly.  Quincy dismisses his father's lack of intervention by accepting daddy's old school approach to raising children. Women run the house, Men work. So deal with whatever she did.  His father died of diseased hernia unnecessarily. Depite his love for his father, and the fortune that Quincy had amassed, he could not convince his father to have the life-saving surgery.  Black men should take better care of their health was the message herd.             Quincy loved white women.  He didn't say that, but look who he married. How many wives? Not one of them black. C'mon now Q we knew you must have slipped a sistah in somewhere.  Is it amazing that all of his ex-wives had some  positive comments about him.  Go Figure.  Quincy was not a role model husband or father.             Thank you, Quincy, for sharing the fact that you and a whole lot of other Black men could be better fathers to their children, all of their children.  Quincy's first born, Snoopy, needed his father and Quincy was not there.  Now that's strange.  A man who loved his father so much, turns out not to be like the father he admired.  Quincy does regret how he treated his son, Snoopy.              Questions asked: 1. What is the saddest event in the book? Dad wouldn't get care needed, so Q literally watched him die. It was beyond his control. 2. What was the most emotional part? He had so many relationships with women and just couldn't seem to get it right. 3. What is the happiest part of the book? He has such a great talent and didn't let it go to waste. He is such a risk taker, and it has paid off. GREAT BOOK!
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