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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed this, I've always wanted to be a groupie and in some ways this book gave the insight of following a fledgling band to the point of breakout star status. I loved the gritty descriptions of life on tour, and I loved how even though it's told in probably the least glamorous fashion, I still w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53395598">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Nice little rock and roll novel. It's about the relationships as much as the music and the scene, and really shines when it's focused on how it feels to make music with others, and what it feels like when you start to see success in the distance. Each of the four sections in the books is from the pe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61425217">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[An excellent change of pace from what I've been reading lately - this is fresh, hip, set in Boston, about wannabe rock stars.   Character driven and well-played against each other, this novel progresses in plot via 4 case studies of each member of a new band.  It was fun to be in their heads and see...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36225120">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Loved this the first time I read it, liked it a lot the second time, and couldn't be bothered to finish the third.  I suppose that's a pretty good chart of my path down the road from hoping to one day be cool to realizing it ain't gonna happen, since the hipness seemed so very, very forced this time...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35898632">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Awesome book...about four band-mates, who have all gone out with someone else in the band at one time or another. Goes into each person's back story in detail while still progressing the story of the band itself.  It's a really quick read, and it's got some pretty poignant quotes throughout.  ]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[This charming novel charts the last days of rock as seen through the  eyes of the four members of the Exes, a painfully hip Boston-area indie alterna-pop band. Each of the four chapters takes on the tale of the band's conception and fruition from the perspective of a different member, producing an omniscient <em>Rashomon</em>-like narrative that weaves pop reference and nerdy rock-geek sensibility into a combination Harlequin Romance/Celebrity Tell-All. Author Pagan Kennedy is best known for her zine <em>Pagan's Head</em> and her handbook of all things '70s, <em>Platforms</em>. She puts that subcultural know-how to work in this fast-moving story about rockers who love their own images more than the notes and tempos of the music they play. <em>--James DiGiovanna</em>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Good characters and relationships. Good depiction of the low-rent live music/touring band world. I like that she has a lot of variety in both male and female characters. Tries a little to hard in the dropping hip references arena. Simultaneously fun and a little sad. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a novel about a band. It sticks in my mind because the characters were very well made so they come back to me. <br/>It's kind of like chick lit for chicks who don't care about Prada.]]></body>
    
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