Greg’s Reviews > Porcelain: A Memoir > Status Update
Greg
is 70% done
In "Barbarian Days", when Finnegan surfs a perfect wave he drops to his knees on a beach and weeps. In "Porcelain" when Moby records a song in which "God [moves] over the face of the water", he places his head on his garbage-savaged plywood table and cries. There is nothing more beautiful than an artist at work. I'd be hard pressed to say which of these books brought forth the most tears from this reader.
— Oct 17, 2016 01:08PM
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Greg
is 90% done
I'm forcing myself now to read only a chapter a day. Yes, this is so good I don't want to finish it, even though it has taken a devastatingly dark turn. I've been listening to "Play" over and over while reading this and a few of the songs I've been listening to during the past 17 years match the darkness in Moby's life. Only now do I hear the remnants of dark and depressing Trip-Hop (Portishead, etc.).
— Oct 20, 2016 09:02AM
Greg
is 40% done
"His being a homophobe might have been loathsome, but it didn't make him unfit to drive me around England in the middle of the night." I like Moby, I like his music, but I didn't expect these one-line zingers throughout this book.
— Oct 09, 2016 04:48AM
Greg
is reading
About Moby's Thanksgiving, with family, in 1990, Moby writes: "But Grandma, I'm in my vegan corner of shame" as he gnaws on a yam. Funny, and you just know that's 100% true.
— Oct 05, 2016 10:22AM
