A unique collection of short stories documenting the finest moments of twenty years of punk rock. The bands, the booze and the bad behaviour. The drugs, the shagging and brawling. Contributions from Mark Perry, Stewart Home, Nick Blinko, Robert Wyatt and many more.
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1.0 out of 5 stars
Gobbing Pogoing and Gratuitous Average Fiction,
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This review is from: Gobbing Pogoing and Gratuitous Bad Language (Paperback)
This collection of short stories suffers from an identity crisis. Some of the stories are about punk, some of the stories are by punks, but the collection doesn't really come together. Further, most of the stories are poorly written, poorly edited (or not edited), and generally uninteresting run-of-the-mill stuff ("I was disenchanted, I formed a band, we played some gigs, we broke up, I have angst" type stuff).
This collection of punk short stories also includes a piece by Nick Blinko. His contribution, "Punk Alice", is not really a short story but is a dozen or so pages of doodles and scribblings. The art quality is not what you'd expect from looking at Blinko's albums (c.f., Rudimentary Peni), and the scribblings are mostly chess game notations. Blinko's piece is pretty much uninteresting All in all, not worth the money.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Not punk stories at all, but not really bad stories either.,
By zombiekittie "Katie Kurtz" (Jonestown, TX) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Gobbing Pogoing and Gratuitous Bad Language (Paperback)
Okay, I bought this book because I'm a punk and I thought that this would be highly entertaining to me...wrong. The only story I even like din here was the one by Poppy Z. Brite and it's a gothic story. The stories aren't bad at all they're just not what they say they are. xXx
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A PUNK LIFE Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Loch Nair, Cheung Tak Wah, Stephen Rowe, The Banned, Cheung Chia Ling, Morley Ham, Sex Pistols, Sing Fui Liang, Jack Daniels, John Loader, Jolly Butchers, Railway Place, The Destroyer, Yuen Fai Hung, Amhurst Road, Dang Tsui Fong, Hong Kong, Jeezus Christ, Lin Van Troi, Nashville Rooms, Nguyen Van Lai, Vintage Magazine Shop, X-Ray Spex New!
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A PUNK LIFE Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Loch Nair, Cheung Tak Wah, Stephen Rowe, The Banned, Cheung Chia Ling, Morley Ham, Sex Pistols, Sing Fui Liang, Jack Daniels, John Loader, Jolly Butchers, Railway Place, The Destroyer, Yuen Fai Hung, Amhurst Road, Dang Tsui Fong, Hong Kong, Jeezus Christ, Lin Van Troi, Nashville Rooms, Nguyen Van Lai, Vintage Magazine Shop, X-Ray Spex New!
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books:
- The Primal Screamer by Nick Blinko in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- West Ham: Irons In The Soul by Pete May in Back Matter
- Culture shock! by Robert George Cooper in Back Matter
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