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Joe Morris
Old Love
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 Posted - 11/08/2010 : 01:46:56
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| Does anyone actually enjoy reading this book? Just terrible |
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ed the bear
Fourth Love
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215 Posts |
Posted - 11/08/2010 : 08:04:34
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I found it disappointing. I was so excited to find it because I had just re-discovered Love after a long period when they'd faded in my memory, but it wasn't much good if I recall. It's a couple of years now since I read it.
The whole 33 1/3 series is wildly uneven. Some of the books are well written -- I enjoyed the one on Highway 61, for example -- but some are just dreadful. You think the FC book is bad, take a look at the "Notorious Byrd Brothers" book. No, don't, really. Reads like it was written by someone who couldn't get an article placed in Creem magazine in 1968. |
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rocker
Old Love
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Posted - 11/08/2010 : 14:19:48
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| Interesting....And I kind of liked it. I don't think every book is perfect but Hoskyns at times came out with some insightful ideas that made you reflect on and appreciate the band and record. Well with me I'm always looking for new idea with FC because the record is so rich and well we know it's a great masterpiece in rock. I'm all for books like that and John Einarson's. |
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Joe Morris
Old Love
3491 Posts |
Posted - 11/08/2010 : 15:42:46
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book written by Hultkrans
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rocker
Old Love
USA
3606 Posts |
Posted - 11/08/2010 : 16:06:45
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right, got the names mixed up...
Did you get the chance to read the book? I cojld see why some didn't like it though. The prose can get kind of 'flighty' at times.
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lemonade kid
Old Love
USA
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Posted - 11/08/2010 : 18:31:36
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I liked it. Of course it is written from a scholarly view and can be a bit lofty or presumptive. That is the purpose of the series anyway. Everything is mostly personal analysis mixed with historical "facts"...it's a bit like a scholar interpreting an arcane bit of poetry. Not everyone's cup of tea.
Arthur was arcane if anything, and some of H's "insights" are based on his own experience with depression and mental illnesses; but the 33 1/3 book takes us to places that a biography would never dare go. Some of the illustrations are a bit off the wall, but at least he is willing to go to some pretty dark places in the recesses of Arthur's mind...and he considers FC one of the top two rock albums ever, so he can't be "all good" (another Arthurism!).
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Everything you do returns at last to you,
so why don't you...do...love.
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Joe Morris
Old Love
3491 Posts |
Posted - 12/08/2010 : 01:10:50
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One of the worst books I've ever read, down there with Finnegans Wake
was considering doing a video review for the tome on Amazon, but gonna give it a miss. Might actually get some people to read it |
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rocker
Old Love
USA
3606 Posts |
Posted - 12/08/2010 : 15:00:22
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| You shohld. Your opinion's valid!! Maybe hultkrans could've made it better. hey he just may do a re-do! |
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Joe Morris
Old Love
3491 Posts |
Posted - 12/08/2010 : 15:59:54
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Yikes!
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kdion11
Old Love
USA
552 Posts |
Posted - 12/08/2010 : 20:24:20
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quote:
Originally posted by Joe Morris
One of the worst books I've ever read, down there with Finnegans Wake
was considering doing a video review for the tome on Amazon, but gonna give it a miss. Might actually get some people to read it
KD: I agree - I couldn't even finish it. Isn't this the one
that presumed Arthur spent all of his time reading classic
poetry and the like ? |
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ed the bear
Fourth Love
USA
215 Posts |
Posted - 16/08/2010 : 06:12:56
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| You guys have made me reconsider. Now I'm gonna have to go and re-read the thing. It's right here on the shelf next to Einarson and Hoskyns... |
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Joe Morris
Old Love
3491 Posts |
Posted - 16/08/2010 : 06:43:32
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| well, its good for tindling |
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ed the bear
Fourth Love
USA
215 Posts |
Posted - 16/08/2010 : 07:02:44
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Don't hold back, Joe. Tell us how you really feel! 
I'm definitely with you on Finnegans Wake, though. Won't be wading into that swamp again. |
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rocker
Old Love
USA
3606 Posts |
Posted - 16/08/2010 : 15:32:57
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Eng Lit 121......try "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" and then you'll find out how he got to "Finnegan's Wake!!....
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lemonade kid
Old Love
USA
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Posted - 16/08/2010 : 19:18:08
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Originally posted by rocker
Eng Lit 121......try "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" and then you'll find out how he got to "Finnegan's Wake!!....
I'll just read Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Dog instead!
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Everything you do returns at last to you,
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Joe Morris
Old Love
3491 Posts |
Posted - 16/08/2010 : 22:41:03
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Ulysses is better, though its a struggle!  |
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RE the 33 1/3 book on Loves FChanges
