Posts tagged "reviews"
Please Kill Me, The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
May 21, 2006
Legs McNeile and Gillian McCain
New York, NY
Dear Sir and Madam:
Just finished your magnificent book, Please Kill Me, and although I found it a fascinating, disturbing, ultimately-depressing page-turner, I have two problems:
First, you never explain how The Sex Pistols, a group, as I understand it, made up kids who had almost zilch musical training and craft, recorded Never Mind the Bollocks, arguably the greatest rock and roll album ever. Compared to Bollocks, Marquee Moon is pretentious and flat. That [...]
Posted in Books/Films/Media on May 21st, 2006 | 
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The God of Small Things
The God of Small Things
By Arundhati Roy
As the world sinks into pathology, as my kids drift further from me, as I creak towards 53 years—pot-bellied, lonely, strange, starved for affection, grieving lost family life, I ask, Why read novels?
I read The God of all Small Things because, according to a Korean woman who seemed intelligent and who used it to teach her CUNY students, it is a Good Book.
I have developed an allergy to Good Books.
Roy is an annoyingly precious [...]
Posted in Books/Films/Media on April 22nd, 2006 | 1 Comment »
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Darcy
Finished Pride and Prejudice for the 2nd time.
Again a chore.
Most of it I wasn’t into. I was barely into the last twenty pages. The problems of two, young people in love—one filthy rich, the other comparatively well-off—misunderstanding each other, seems painfully trivial.
My real problem with the book, however, is two-fold:
First, Darcy, the hero, is an insufferable phony.
Second, I cannot believe that chicks fall for him.
Darcy is a jerk. Three reasons why:
Posted in Books/Films/Media on April 17th, 2006 | 1 Comment »
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