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I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution
by Craig Marks
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| This is a nicely done oral history of MTV up through the end of the era in which it actually played music videos. | |
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To my surprise, this is not the book I read many times as a child. That book was a third person narrative, and the individual stories were, for the most part, of a slightly later generation of players. Nevertheless, this book was well worth the time....more |
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| This is one instance where the movie is significantly superior to the book. My hat is off to Phil Alden Robinson, who had the vision to turn a slightly awkward and clumsily written and plotted book into an extremely moving film. In a number of way...more | |
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| Something of a disappointment. Franzen's novel is, at least in part, about freedom and its consequences. To a large extent, it's about people who work to be free of their families, or at least try to do so, since his point is that the ties of famil...more | |
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| This is an enjoyable read. Kahn, best known for The Boys of Summer (which is a baseball classic) writes fluidly, with only the occasional awkwardness. The following are my problems with the book: In places it's a bit repetitive; it focuses too much...more | |
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| Not one of Perrotta's better efforts. In this novel, he takes a premise--that the "Rapture" has come and resulted in the disappearance of millions around the world, but it has taken good people, bad people, religious and non-religious, Christians an...more | |
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Leavy accomplishes her main goal--to draw a full portrait of the man--both good and bad. Ultimately, despite his flaws and failings as a person, this is a sympathetic portrait.
My main quibbles with the book are: (1) some quite lengthy (and, to me,...more |
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| Le Carre, the master of the cold war spy novel, has seemed a bit lost since the fall of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. His novels always depended upon his portrayal of moral ambiguity and the shared professionalism of spies on both si...more | |
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