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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Brilliant - a classic for this generation.,
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This review is from: The Last Rock Star Book: Or Liz Phair, a Rant (Paperback)
Camden eloquently expresses the anger and frustration felt by so many of us today regarding the "genericized" musical industry and the increasing lack of intelligent musical taste. The ultimate symptom of the musical malaise is the pervasive hero worship of _rock_stars_themselves_ in the absence of quality music to adore. In parallel with Camden's disgust with the state of music today there is a clear lingering feeling of his love of rock and roll. I can empathize completely with this dilemma.This book certainly displays a stark atmosphere of fatalism, but it does so in an unthreatening fashion -- we accept with little emotion that life is not going to be a fairy tale for Camden, and we are not called by his writing to stand up and cheer for a happy ending (although human nature cannot but hope for one). Isn't this an accurate reflection of the cautious and nearly fatalist attitude of many of our youth today? One great surprise for me is that imbedded within Camden's rather informal dialogue are nuggets of incredible poetry. For example, "Outside the window, stick-bare windswept trees of winter spoke of witch trials". I would love to see Camden further explore his obvious potential for poetic prose in future works. Camden Joy is a voice that I hope we continue to hear in modern literature. Buy this book.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Complicated but simple novel,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Last Rock Star Book: Or Liz Phair, a Rant (Paperback)
Camden Joy has written a minor masterpiece here called "The Last Rock Star Book." Joy is the main character of his novel (mostly likely not "really" him), and his past is at times a little cloudy from huffing too much as a teen. But the book is unpredictable. The direction the book takes you lead me to believe that Liz Phair is the love child of Brian Jones (an explanation for the seeming links made between "Exile in Guyville" and post-Brian Jones Stones' masterpiece "Exile on Main Street"?), but you can't be sure. The idea was great, and his prose was simple articulate and at times poetic. The narrator is very likeable at times, but ultimately unlikable. The ending was anticlimatic, but still carried out the authors revisionistic aims.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Joy takes you along on his trip...,
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This review is from: The Last Rock Star Book: Or Liz Phair, a Rant (Paperback)
"The Last Rock Star Book or: Liz Phair, a Rant" alternates between funny and disturbing, deep and superficial. Though I bought it because I'm a Liz Phair fan, the emphasis should really be on "Rant" rather than Phair. Not that there's anything wrong with that.Joy adequately captures the essense of teenage (or twenty-something, or thirty-something) rebellion, and the allure of sex, drugs & rock n' roll. He takes you along as he probes the recesses of his mind & memory, while sniffing glue and chatting with his pocket tape recorder. At worst confusing and at best intriguing, this is a good read for the original MTV generation.
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