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What book are you currently reading?

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Making a renewed effort to finish Rock and The Pop Narcotic, by Joe Carducci.

Still struggling to get past his rampant right-wing anti-'liberal', misogynistic agenda, but the insight into the socio-political aspects of popular music culture (not to mention the machinations of the industry) is so sharp that I can grit my teeth and plough on.
 
Well, I thoroughly enjoyed Party Monster. Full of hypercritical drama queens, but all written in a highly entertaining fashion. :D

I'm now easing into The Perks Of Being A Wallflower. I remember struggling to get this one off the ground before, but I'm gonna stick with it this time. As it's told from a diary entry perspective, I suspect the writing style early on is a deliberate example of how his vocabulary and character develops as time goes on. It certainly seems that way as I'm kinda getting into the rhythm of it a bit more now.
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Plot summary:

In an unknown setting, the novel begins in August 1991 with a teenager going by the alias of 'Charlie', writing to an anonymous "friend" whom he heard someone at school talking about, and decided they sounded like a nice person to write to. Charlie states that he does not want the anonymous friend to try to figure out who he is or to find him. Charlie has just begun his Freshman year of high school, his brother is at Pennsylvania State University on a football scholarship, and his sister is a Senior in high school. We learn that his best, and only, friend committed suicide prior to the beginning of the book - leaving Charlie to face high school alone. Charlie often refers to his late Aunt Helen and how she was his "favorite person in the whole world" and states frequently that something bad happened to her, but he can never talk about her death as it takes him to his "bad place."

As he starts high school, Charlie is somewhat of an outcast. He then befriends Patrick and Samantha (Sam); Seniors who are step-brother and step-sister. They take Charlie under their wings and introduce him to their eclectic, open-minded, hard-partying ways of life and their friends, and Charlie really starts to begin to enjoy his life. Experiences that Charlie and his family and friends go through and the topics explored throughout the novel include suicide, difficult/abusive relationships, drug use/smoking, sex, abortion, child abuse/trauma, the struggles of homosexuality, and the awkward times of adolescence, such as first kisses and first girlfriends. At the end of the novel, Charlie remembers repressed memories of his childhood trauma (about his Aunt Helen, and that she had been molested when she was 7), which leads to him having to be put in a mental institution for a short while, but he comes out of it with more of an understanding and acceptance of himself and looks forward to the future without fear.
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fluffybudzz said:
The Secret History by Donna Tart. an amazing book
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My favourite book <3
I love everything about it, the plot, the characters, the writing style, it's so good!

Just started The Ressurectionist by James Bradley. So far there's been pretty brutal dissecting of dead bodies and laudanum drinking. Off to a great start :D
 
Virtual Light by William Gibson. Been ten years at least since I last read it and it's interesting looking at what has changed in our world since then and how I look at his world now as a result. He was right about the USA having a black president, he was wrong about mobile phones and faxes (barely anyone has the former, people are extremely reliant on the latter). No sign of a 4-thiobuscaline (aka Dancer) pandemic either... I don't think it would catch on in real life as Wiki lists the effects of buscaline (of which it is an analogue) thus: 'Buscaline produces no psychedelic or psychoactive effects, but causes heart arrythmia and light diarrhea.'

Light diarrhea. Sounds like a bit of a half-arsed drug to me.
 
SamhainGrim said:
Making a renewed effort to finish Rock and The Pop Narcotic, by Joe Carducci.

Still struggling to get past his rampant right-wing anti-'liberal', misogynistic agenda, but the insight into the socio-political aspects of popular music culture (not to mention the machinations of the industry) is so sharp that I can grit my teeth and plough on.
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Thank fuck. I've now moved on to where he's actually talking about music and only shoehorning his bullshit politics in every now and then. Which he should do more often because the guy's a genius on that front. More Black Flag stories, Joe, less Reaganism. :)
 
Couple of quotes from Slash book

"Restlessness is a fickle catalyst; it can drive you to achieve or it can coax your demise, and sometimes the choice isn't yours"

"Once you’ve lived a little you will find that whatever you send out into the world comes back to you in one way or another. It may be today, tomorrow, or years from now, but it happens; usually when you least expect it, usually in a form that’s pretty different from the original. Those coincidental moments that change your life seem random at the time but I don’t think they are. At least that’s how it’s worked out in my life. And I know I’m not the only one."

"My big awakening happened when I was fourteen. I'd been trying to get into this older girl's pants for a while, and she finally let me come over to her house. We hung out, smoked some pot and listened to Aerosmith's Rocks. It hit me like a fucking ton of bricks. I sat there listening to it over and over, and totally blew off this girl. I remember riding my bike back to my grandma's house knowing that my life had changed. Now I identified with something."
 
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"My big awakening happened when I was fourteen. I'd been trying to get into this older girl's pants for a while, and she finally let me come over to her house. We hung out, smoked some pot and listened to Aerosmith's Rocks. It hit me like a fucking ton of bricks. I sat there listening to it over and over, and totally blew off this girl. I remember riding my bike back to my grandma's house knowing that my life had changed. Now I identified with something."
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Awwww, Slash! <3 :D

I still have a soft spot for G N' R, as vile, misogynistic and (in Axl's case) racist as they were.

Here's a great link from one of my favourite blogs about a young Slash and what may be an early (and terrible) stab at writing lyrics. It's hilarious if you're into that sort of thing.

Metal Manuscript?
 
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I love that line Sometime between 1992 and 1994 a friend's girlfriend traveled to L.A. and somehow found herself at Slash's house early in the morning
The band that time forgot
Slash = cool
Axl= cunt (good frontman though)
 
If you like rock biogs the Motley Crue one (The Dirt) is an absolute belter!

'Looking down on it from the helicopter, with a bottle of Jack in my left hand, a bag of pills in my right hand, and a blond head bobbing up and down in my lap, I felt like the king of the world.'
 
^ Must check it out.

Crazy From The Heat by David Lee Roth must take the crown, though.

I have to stop reading these trashy rock-star autobiographies and make time for real literature again.
 
I heard the Motley Crue one was good alright.
There must be a decent Rolling Stones bio that one of them wrote ?
 
Keef's Autobiography's great. It came out last year. Needless to say there are some great stories, both drug and music-related. He comes across as a decent and pretty unaffected bloke too, though he doesn't hold back on Jagger. Doesn't go as far as to mention Mick's smack use though; Jerry Hall did that for him.

I can also strongly recommend The True Adventures of The Rolling Stones by Stanley Booth. He was a journalist who was a friend of the Stones, so he was invited on the infamous 1969 US tour (Altamont being the most grisly event).

He not only documents the (many)goings-on behind the scenes on tour, but sets it against the backdrop of his own private story; his descent into heroin addiction and his failing relationship. Kind of sets it apart from similar tour bios and adds an awful lot of personalised poignancy to what was essentially the beginning of the end of an epoch.

So yeah, either one (or preferably both) and you can't go wrong. :)
 
^ nice one Sam

ever heard of this one? Up and Down with the Rolling Stones


Tony Sanchez worked for Keith Richards for eight years buying drugs, running errands and orchestrating cheap thrills. He records unforgettable accounts of the Stones' perilous misadventures racing cars along the Cote d'Azur; murder at Altamont; nights with the Beatles at the Stones-owned nightclub Vesuvio; frantic flights to Switzerland for blood changes and the steady stream of women, including Anita Pallenberg, Marianne Faithfull and Bianca Jagger. Here are the Stones at their debauched peak cavorting around the world, smashing Bentleys, working black magic, getting raided, snorting coke and mainlining heroin. Sanchez tells the whole truth, sparing not even himself in the process with hard-hitting prose and candid photographs.
 
Read a book for the first time in ages over the past 2 days at work. Lous Theroux - Call of the Weird. He revisits all the nutters he visited in his show. Kept me amused at work anyway.
 
Just finished the Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley. She's not a great writer but the story she tells is a completely different take on the Arthurian legend. Worthwhile but a bit of a struggle.
Now reading Field Grey, Philip Kerr. A thriller set in Nazi Germany and elsewhere.
 
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