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From Joy Division to New Order: The Factory Story

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A book that might be interesting for the Joy Division/New Order fan obsessed with collecting anything even remotely related to the esoteric and arty band. A book that most likely would be incredibly boring to anyone else. The book gives some details about other Factory Records bands like the Duritti Column and James, but essentially, it always drifts back to the subject of Ian Curtis and Joy Division/New Order. There is some interesting anecdotes about New Order's times in America, and there are some great pictures, but other than that, perhaps not worth all the money...

It's true that if you go in expecting just another Joy Division story you'll be disappointed, but this is about the evolution of the Manchester scene centering on Factory Records and spiralling outwards.I thought the author was very astute and I would place the book alongside "England's Dreaming" and "Lipstick Traces" as a good example of the richness of music journalism. Definitely not the worst book you've ever read in your life.

This book is simply the worst book I have ever read. period.

Save your money & buy Brian Edge's book on the same topic or even better buy a Joy Division or New Order CD.

This book is too long by about 300 pages; full of irrelvancy; incredibly self-indulgent; poorly written, almost to the point of incomprehension; full of in-jokes and references that mean little to anyone not living in Manchester; and very very dull.

Your time and money can be better spent. And the worst thing about it is that I stuck through it, in the hope that as I read more it might get better. It didn't.