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5.0 out of 5 stars
Big delightful surprize!,
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This review is from: Travelling Man (Hardcover)
To my surprize, I found this book to be the best British autobiography since Patrick Macnee gave us _Blind in One Ear : the Avenger Returns_ in 1989. The writing is so full of surprizing metaphors and wit, that I predict many sentences and some paragraphs from this book will be in editions of _Barlett's Familiar Quotations_ a hundred years from now. The sections on Mr Allen's childhood are as fascinating and well told (though too full of cuss words for young readers) as any section from _Harry Potter_ of equal length. I hope there are more books from Mr Allen and more recorded music as well. Unless this has made the bestseller lists in England without my knowledge, buy it now; I bet it's been overlooked. The inside view of the pop music world of the 1960's through the present is fascinating, but actually irrelevant: it's the way the darned book is written that makes it the reading highlight of the last 12 years for me.
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Travelling Man by Frank Allen (Hardcover - March 31, 1999)
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