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paulataua's review against another edition
4.0
‘KLF: Chaos Magic Music Money’ focuses in on the music phenomenon that was Drummond and Cauty, but really uses that to rewrite a history of the late twentieth and early twentieth first century in which order is not a property of the world but is something we project onto it . The ‘real’ world is a place where things happen not because of well worked out reasons leading to clear actions and then to desired results, but more the chaotic coming together of circumstances that lie beyond our rational inquiries. It is a postmodernism blossoming into a meta-modernism. There is so much here that stopped me in my tracks and made me think, and there were times when ‘examples’ seemed a little farfetched and stretched a little beyond belief. There was a point around the middle of the book when I started to think that the argument wasn’t all that convincing, but then I realized the last thing the writer was doing was presenting an argument to convince me as that would place us right back in the ordered and rational world he was clearly critiquing. Glad I read it.
zellyn's review against another edition
5.0
Magical
If you liked and remember The KLF from the early nineties, but thought they were strange, this book will delightfully show you just how much more strange things truly were...
If you liked and remember The KLF from the early nineties, but thought they were strange, this book will delightfully show you just how much more strange things truly were...
indigoreading's review
4.75
This is genius. If I could give it 6 stars I would. I do think this book resonated so deeply with me because of my interests in the music industry, the creative process and recent history, but I also think that anyone with even the vaguest interest about how we got to our current cultural moment would benefit from this. You certainly don’t have to be a fan of the KLF, though you might be at the end. This might be the best non-fiction book I’ve ever read.
drix's review against another edition
5.0
Although it had it's flaws here and there, this deserves a full 5-star rating. It was a wild joyride of a book, and it enlightened me in a lot more topics than just The KLF. Several quoted books have been added to my list of books to read, and I it felt at times just like the music of KLF. Entertaining, confusing, surprising, funny and thrilling. I'll probably read this again someday, when I have a need for a good story and a good laugh.
bleary's review against another edition
5.0
Barking mad and mind-bendingly original, this is exactly the kind of biography The KLF deserve
kavinay's review against another edition
5.0
Higgs' own journey through the history of discordianism and magical realism is as engaging as his attempt to suss out how much of the KLF was nonsense, ahead of its time, or often both.
laufanren's review against another edition
5.0
This book is about magic, and your presence in an overarching narrative you may not be aware of. It is not anything I can intellectually agree with or understand. I enjoyed it very much.