Tattoo Machine: Tall Tales, True Stories, and My Life in Ink, (Paperback)

from manogirl

Compulsively readable. I didn't love every part of this book, but I liked it enough that it was a thoroughly enjoyable read. Sometimes, Johnson goes a little overboard with the gross-out stuff, but besides that, it was an interesting look at the world of tattooing, if a little shallow. Half memoi...

from samaree

I'm surprised by the number of reviewers who state that they don't have tattoos, don't want tattoos and don't like tattoos, and then go on to give this book an unfavorable review. This is an insiders view of an insular world. If you don't get it, you're never going to get it. I quite enjoyed the ...

from SpongeBobFishpants

Although I do own the book, I've not read "Kitchen Confidential" so I can't speak as to whether Jeff Johnson's tattoo parlor tell-all is similar. And although I have two tattoos and I once nearly vibrated myself off the table at a shop on Melrose getting my eyebrow pierced, I'm not all that famil...

from harpervalley

No words are minced during this swift backstage tour of the tattoo industry. As the guide, Johnson does a commendable job of sharing a bit of himself along the way. Johnson is intellegent, articulate and "Tattoo Machine" reads sincere. There is a blue streak running throughout the diaglogue but i...

from miamismartgirl09

A goal of mine is to eventually get a tattoo, which would be my first one. Jeff Johnson's "memoir" of his life at his co-owned tattoo shop is a wonderful reading of the "behind the scenes" of a tattoo shop. Jeff Johnson has a mixture of his life at the shop, his home life and what he thinks of as...