Monday, February 23, 2009

Never Buying a CD Again

Weekend reading: "Kill Your Friends" and "Storms: My Life with Lindsey Buckingham and Fleetwood Mac."

"Storms" was the girlfriend's account of life with Fleetwood Mac. To sum up this book: drugs, sex, drugs, more and different drugs. Even more drugs, seizures, physical attacks, and drugs.

There. I've saved you a few hours reading it. That being said, it was actually better written and more introspective than George Harrison's wife (and later Eric Clapton's wife) Patti Boyd's book.

As for "Kill Your Friends" this was a book by a music company representative, who traded on his years of signing bands to write a fictionalized account, which goes as follows: sleazebag, drugs, sex, drugs, kill everybody in your way, drugs, negativity, and more drugs.

Pretty sure "Kill Your Friends" was the worst book ever read in the Land of Topiary. Book beside which the awfulness of inept plotting and prose pale. Book so horrible, so filled with sickness and venom you vow to NEVER contribute to the music industry again.

Hope everybody else had better Weekend Reading than this.

Moo!

6 Comments:

Blogger Gorilla Bananas said...

The best way to sell books is to make people curious about their contents rather than writing anything good. It's a pity you wasted your time, Ms Cow. Have you considered writing a one-star review on Amazon?

11:57 PM  
Blogger watercolordaisy said...

Am reading "Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously" so far, a fun read. About Julie's year of cooking out of Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking. Lots of irreverent speech about her own life. But pretty funny, IMO. But then, I just started it last night and am still in chapter one. lol.

7:09 AM  
Blogger From the Doghouse said...

How could it be bad with an awesome title like "Kill Your Friends"?

7:38 AM  
Blogger Kevin Musgrove said...

fictionalised accounts of real life never make good reading.

3:28 PM  
Blogger linda said...

At the moment I am reading TinTin again. They are my son's books. They never fail to provide me with a laugh. Recently I read some Asterix comics. In fact, there is a lot to be said for kids books now and then.

And Mad comics.

3:58 PM  
Blogger The Topiary Cow said...

Gorilla: As always, GB sums it up in a nutshell (Cow furiously typing her thoughts to Amazon)...and Curiosity killed the Cow...

Watercolor: that sounds like a good book! (Cow quickly noting the title for future reading)

Dog: you are evil. Truly evil. Moo!

Kevin: Alas, your insight wasn't quick enough to save the Lost Weekend of Crappy Books.

Linda: Cow is a huge fan of MAD magazine! Cow luuuuuuvvvvve!

Will think about escaping to children's books to repair her psyche...perhaps the E Nesbit classic The Enchanted Castle or The Phantom Tollbooth, or perhaps even The Little Engine That Could for true inspiration.

Moo!

5:12 PM  

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