funknik 's review for:

Waging Heavy Peace: A Hippie Dream by Neil Young

4.0

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This is a fun book. Not especially well written, nor really a memoir or bio, it resembles nothing so much as sitting and listening to your favorite, but goofiest, uncle ramble after Thanksgiving dinner. Engrossing stories about Buffalo Springfield and CSNY are interspersed with tirades about the intolerable sound quality of the MP3 format and what repair work he's done on any number of classic cars that you've never heard of. Profound insight and quotes are juxtaposed with the corniest, endlessly groan-worthy quips "is that a song title or what?" Oh, Uncle Neil ... Overall, however, I must admit I really enjoyed the conversational tone and there's enough meat in here to make it really worthwhile -- also, for what it's worth, Neil's outlook on life is positive and valuable, so instead of being simply informative, this book made me feel good.