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What a great read! I spent many many years in Cville VA, and it was interesting to read about places Rob had hung out that are still there today. What a trip down memory lane for all the music. I am a huge lover of 80's and 90's music and love reminisce. Very moving look back on a part of his life and a wonderful way to honor is wife, Renee.
You gotta love a book with a built in soundtrack! Sheffield, a Rolling Stone music critic, goes over some of his mix tapes and how they relate to his love life. We listen along as he meets his future wife, dates her, marries her and spends married life in her shadow. We witness his wife's sudden death and Sheffield's attempts at getting on with his life. Sheffield sprinkles music criticism and stories of being a rock journalist into the story. I can't think of another book that has made me laugh incredibly hard in one paragraph then have me tearing up in the next.
One of my all-time favorites -- heartbreakingly brief, bittersweetly humorous, and wildly romantic. Sad without being sentimental. A love story for music geeks who are skeptical of true love -- this book will make you a believer.
This book was heart-breaking. I found myself bawling crying during the last part of the book, and the author was able to portray his grief in a realistic way. I also enjoyed reading about life in the 1990s, a time when I was too young to know what twenty-somethings were up to.
It took me about halfway to really get into the book, and then after that I couldn't put it down.
funny
reflective
sad
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slow-paced
This book was a great read. Easy, enjoyable, enlightening. Makes me miss the 90s. Not my life experience of the 90s (middle school & high school - yuck) but the time period and the music. If you read this book you will get why, the author made so many good points on what was so great about the 90s. No war and Bill Clinton was so much better than where we are now. Which is why I hope after this current administration is over we can go back to the same attitude instead of this freak conservatism we have now (unless this country is still retarded and chooses the worst people possible M&P).
I connected to his points about Mickey Dolenz (of The Monkees), Jackie O and Pavement (thanks to Peggy I learned of them two years ago).
Before I read this book I didn't think the 90s really meant anything. There wasn't much to really define the WHOLE decade. We get it when people mean the 50s, 70s and 80s but not the 90s. And the 90s will never be as defined as the previous decades but there were definitely some great things that came out of it.
I connected to his points about Mickey Dolenz (of The Monkees), Jackie O and Pavement (thanks to Peggy I learned of them two years ago).
Before I read this book I didn't think the 90s really meant anything. There wasn't much to really define the WHOLE decade. We get it when people mean the 50s, 70s and 80s but not the 90s. And the 90s will never be as defined as the previous decades but there were definitely some great things that came out of it.
Good Book, but calling Brittany Murphy basic and boring is an unforgivable crime.