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A review by chillcox15
Destroy All Monsters: The Last Rock Novel by Jeff Jackson
4.0
Destroy All Monsters really gets at the feeling of being a lifer in the music scene, someone who can't imagine not going to dozens of concerts a year (or hell, a month). It literalizes the feeling of being at a concert, which to a certain extent, is a contract for your own destruction. Your ears ring, your body is beaten by the rowdy crowd, your eyes assailed with lights; in Destroy All Monsters, going to a concert means you might end up all the way dead at once, and not slowly, over time.
The A Side, B Side structure is interesting enough to work, even if it disproves its own thesis of the B Side being the more interesting, secretive of the two.
The closest thing to this novel that I can think of is the movie Green Room, which also has a depressed, depleted feeling about it, and is about continuing on in music, because it's the only thing that really seems to make sense, even when it seems to be the escapable path to one's own destruction.
If you've ever slogged through a day at work, looking forward to a cramped house show with shitty noise punk music, this book is for you!
The A Side, B Side structure is interesting enough to work, even if it disproves its own thesis of the B Side being the more interesting, secretive of the two.
The closest thing to this novel that I can think of is the movie Green Room, which also has a depressed, depleted feeling about it, and is about continuing on in music, because it's the only thing that really seems to make sense, even when it seems to be the escapable path to one's own destruction.
If you've ever slogged through a day at work, looking forward to a cramped house show with shitty noise punk music, this book is for you!