false 44 176 153 true 5884094 read 3 true 4313526 currently-reading 21 true 4313525 to-read 1 false 5545438 rereading http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72511349 to: The Death of Bunny Munro (Hardcover) by Nick Cave
Nick Cave deals in dark. It’s his thing. It always has been, and I am guessing it always will be, but in the last twenty or so years, he has learned to wrestle his muse, and has gone from the guy who sometimes (supposedly) wrote the lyrics for his early band (The Birthday Party) in the blood-drenched needle he had just used to shoot up various death drugs to some warped hybrid of Frank Sinatra and Leonard Cohen with serious David Bowie tendencies. By the latter part of that statement, I don’t mean Cave has ever sounded that much like the Thin White Duke, only he has a habit of lifting certain bits and pieces of both lyrical content and aesthetic from strange places. While Bowie taking from Lou and Iggy, Jobriath and T Rex has been well documented over the years, Cave has gone to even greater lengths to pick up his techniques; from obscure late 1960’s dirty blues albums, to hillbilly songs from the start of the 20th Century, Cave knows where to find inspiration in the strangest places to create some timeless songs.
But that’s songwriting, The Death of Bunny Munro, is a book, and it’s the second one written by Cave (he also wrote the screenplay for the phenomenal film The Proposition). And if it hasn’t been proven before, writing songs and writings books are totally different things...

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