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24 of 26 people found the following review helpful:
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Tells You How It Feels
A fine addition to your Dylan library. One of the few books to deal with Dylan's output with the respect and insight it deserves. Thankfully the book is on the songs rather than the life of Bob Dylan. With the insight of an academic yet using fully accessible, virtually jargon free, prose Mr. Hinchey's takes us on a journey through Bob Dylan's 1960's work answering the...
Published on February 2, 2003 by Andrew Muir
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1 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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This Hard Read is gonna fall
Hinchey doesn't make it easy to read this book. He reaches too far to make his analysis of Dylan's meanings and thought processes make sense. In so doing, he often makes less sense. I feel like Hinchey is a Master Thief who has just robbed me of $20.
Published on January 25, 2009 by R. Rae
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24 of 26 people found the following review helpful:
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Tells You How It Feels,
By Andrew Muir (Cambridge UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Like a Complete Unknown: The Poetry of Bob Dylan's Songs, 1961-1969 (Paperback)
A fine addition to your Dylan library. One of the few books to deal with Dylan's output with the respect and insight it deserves. Thankfully the book is on the songs rather than the life of Bob Dylan.With the insight of an academic yet using fully accessible, virtually jargon free, prose Mr. Hinchey's takes us on a journey through Bob Dylan's 1960's work answering the question "How Does It Feel". A convincing thesis is laid out in the introduction and expounded in the following chapters. You don't have to agree with all the interpretations to still get a lot out of them. Having said which I have rarely agreed with as many.
22 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
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Superbly illuminating!,
By A Customer
This review is from: Like a Complete Unknown: The Poetry of Bob Dylan's Songs, 1961-1969 (Paperback)
It's great to finally read a serious, subtle reading of Dylan's evocative but often mysterious lyrics. Hinchey regards Dylan as a major poet, and his book provides powerful support for that view. Classics heard many times like "It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" take on richer, brighter colors after reading "Like a Complete Unknown."
1 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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This Hard Read is gonna fall,
This review is from: Like a Complete Unknown: The Poetry of Bob Dylan's Songs, 1961-1969 (Paperback)
Hinchey doesn't make it easy to read this book. He reaches too far to make his analysis of Dylan's meanings and thought processes make sense. In so doing, he often makes less sense.
I feel like Hinchey is a Master Thief who has just robbed me of $20. |
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Like a Complete Unknown: The Poetry of Bob Dylan's Songs, 1961-1969 by John Hinchey (Paperback - October 23, 2002)
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