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A review by sophlwilson
Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division by Peter Hook
4.0
I thought this was an excellent book. I could hardly put it down. It is a must read for every Joy Division fan. I haven't yet read Touching From a Distance but I get the impression that Unknown Pleasures is the only book that really shows what Ian Curtis was like with the rest of the band. The funny stories that Peter Hook has to tell that involve Ian and the rest of the band make the singer's suicide even more tragic. This book made me laugh and it also made me cry which I think is a sign that it is excellent. The only detail that I can fault is Hook's tendancy to go off on a tangent about an event that happened years after Joy Division. Despite this, I thoroughly recommend this to anyone who has even a slight interest in Joy Division.