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    <body><![CDATA[Man, Lou Reed is such a dick. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read most of this one night while working the graveyard shift at a very institutional group home in the real methy part of SE Portland. I was the only person awake and not severely mentally-ill in the whole building, except for the parole guys, who I was pretty sure were faking it, or at least gre...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7017793">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you love gossipy oral histories, this is the book for you. It's probably better if you're familiar with the music, but that's not a prerequisite. And it's often hysterically funny, depending on who's being interviewed -- Richard Lloyd and Richard Hell both made me laugh out loud a number of times...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37579567">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[As an avid reader (and subsequent loather) of &quot;punk rock&quot; history, I was excited to get into this. And although I didn't get exactly what I was looking for its certainly worth a read for those who can stomach it. <br/><br/>I can't make any bold claim as to say that I don't like oral hist...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3394411">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I absolutely inhaled this.  Legs' view is that punk was a strictly American phenomenon with its roots in The Doors, The Velvet Underground, The MC5, &amp; The Stooges, and that the British got it completely wrong and basically killed the movement.  And he presents that argument well.<br/><br/>Pretty muc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12287916">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i loved this book.  i picked it up on a whim, thinking &quot;hm, i don't really know enough about punk,&quot; and i couldn't put it down. (which became amusing: what's LESS punk than opting out of a crazy fun party on a friday night to stay in and read a book about punk?)<br/><br/>the book is comp...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1231986">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[when i was a kid and i would whine about not getting new shoes or some stupid shit my mom would sing that old Rolling Stones song, &quot;You can't always get what you want&quot;  only she wouldn't sing it she would talk it like it was some ancient wisdom from the lips of Plato inserting pauses to le...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40978014">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It is an inside look into the New York punk scene during the late seventies. It's foul so don't read it!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The explicit redundancy of the punk scene is offensive.  While some of the stories are interesting and the first hand account of it all is better than most, it's just boring.  Listening to how f'd up people get has become tiresome. It isn't awesome anymore.<br/><br/>That said, some of the stories ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3958004">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Punk rockers would make terrible dinner party guests.  They will break your good china and roll around in the shards.  They will defacate on the dessert.  They will shoot up in your bathroom.  They will hit on your grandmother.  They also should make for interesting reading and, for the most part, t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70458670">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Please Kill Me puts stories to the music of 70's American Punk.  A lot of this is just party stories--albeit good ones—and they do a great job of illustrating the scene as well as the society at large it was counter to.  I sometimes forget that society at large was still shaping the scene, not lea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54214004">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was ok. Good window into some of the minds of the major players of punk, but it seems to be the history of punk according to what Legs McNeil thinks is important rather than a more encompassing portrait. It's basically the history of the NY punk scene with some side bits about the Sex Pistols. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45134869">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Told via compiled interview bits, <em>Please Kill Me</em> chronicles the earliest years of the punk scene, starting way back before it even had a name. (Author, Legs McNeil, is actually the man responsible for providing it its handle.) I doubt any other book could paint a better picture of how it all went do...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20991874">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[people who dislike the format of this book obviously ignored the title. beyond that i dont know how one can ignore Legs' gift for editing. sometimes it seems like he's setting these snippets up just to knock them all down with the summarizing paragraph of another first-hand witness that comes off li...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75277921">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Gigantic collection of anecdotes about the original NYC Punk scene from anyone still left standing. More than enough dirt here to fill the grand canyon--for fans of that sort of thing.Lucky thing I am so I quite enjoyed this book. Although it actually made me glad I wasn't in a band anymore, ha! ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My lord, on and on and on.  I felt like I did during Anna Freaken Goddamn Karenina.  But a lot more excited!  Coz yaar!!  Blood and drugs and booze!!  And who doesn't love reading about fucked up bastards who love music.  ONLY people who aren't fucked up bastards who love music.  And you people suck...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21407124">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love this book &amp; have read &amp; re-read it many times since it came home with me from Half-Price Books in the U-District in Seattle. I was out of stuff to read last night &amp; headed to the library today so I pulled this out to tide me over.<br/><br/>First, this is an oral history &amp; I love good oral h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52255783">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Made up entirely of sound bites from musicians such as Iggy Pop, Lou Reed, John Cale, Nico and people in the biz at the time.  <br/><br/>A very fun read. In the library stacks]]></body>
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