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txa1265's review
2.0
How can a book about something so thrilling that I love so much … be so boring? The basic structure- a chronology told by people who were there - should work.
But what comes across is mostly self indulgent and droning on - and worse yet there is an imbalance based on what the author likes over what really matters… and much of that gets back to who he got to talk.
This is the worst kind of history- one dictated by who was there to talk about it.
And perhaps worst of all was allowing Rosen from Ticketmaster to essentially dominate the end of the book with self serving and rationalizing drivel about their predatory practices- in that moment all of the book’s issues were laid bare. I get the importance of Ticketmaster, but to let them rewrite history and dictate their reality for a significant chunk of the book was appalling- but a perfect synopsis of the book.
I gave 2 rather than 1 star because of how well the author sets things up and the basic framework, and a few of the sections that actually worked.
But what comes across is mostly self indulgent and droning on - and worse yet there is an imbalance based on what the author likes over what really matters… and much of that gets back to who he got to talk.
This is the worst kind of history- one dictated by who was there to talk about it.
And perhaps worst of all was allowing Rosen from Ticketmaster to essentially dominate the end of the book with self serving and rationalizing drivel about their predatory practices- in that moment all of the book’s issues were laid bare. I get the importance of Ticketmaster, but to let them rewrite history and dictate their reality for a significant chunk of the book was appalling- but a perfect synopsis of the book.
I gave 2 rather than 1 star because of how well the author sets things up and the basic framework, and a few of the sections that actually worked.
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