Title: Wrong Subject
Product review: After reading "Angry Chair" I wonder who is the subject of this study. The author never tells us whether she even met Layne Staley in person, and judging from the text she apparently did not. Layne's mother and sister, and the author's experiences with both women in the period just before Layne's death, are the actual subject of this book. Adriana Rubio provides some insight into Layne Stayley's childhood, but she tells us almost nothing about the final years of Layne's life (though plenty about the lives of his mother and sister around the time of Layne's death). Rubio's book loses sight of the fact that it was Layne, and not his mother or sister, who made such an impact on the world of music. "Angry Chair" is therefore a major disappointment.
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