TypoCulture
Friday, October 10, 2003
Never Mind The Pollacks by Neal Pollack
I don't know how long Neal Pollack can keep inserting a version of himself as the main character in his books , but this was the funniest book I have read in a long time. It is an alternative history of rock told through the story of the world's greatest rock critic ... Neal Pollack. There's drugs , guns , sodomy all the things that make for a light read. Along the way he meets Elvis , Jerry Lee, The Stones, Bowie , Iggy and many punk geniuses. I had a unique perspective on this book because I had just finished reading Flowers in the Dustbin by James Miller a critical history of rock , so I think that helped me get all the jokes .Check it out , it rocks.
Thursday, September 11, 2003
CATWOMAN: SELINA'S BIG SCORE by Darwyn Cooke
Catwoman is different from the other bat-villains in that she is primarily a thief and not particularly psycho. This is a comic done in the style of a Guy Ritchie film. There are titles introducing the characters and every noir archetype you could imagine. And gues what ? It works , this is a great caper story that you can read without ever having seen an issue of Catwoman. There is a continuity gap in the story , but it is covered really wel. The art is very distinctive and the layout is easy to follow . Cooke is definitely on the rise.Buy This! 5 Stars.
Friday, September 05, 2003
24 Days- Emshwiller and Smith- Well, if anyone could penetrate the darkeness of the Enron mess, it would be these two who basically broke the story in the first place. I'll make the ineveitable comparison to All The Presidents Men. The two very different reporters pull at threads that unravel the whole dirty Enron sweater. Some nice insights on the inner workings of the Wall Street Journal and it's rivalries and turf wars add to the whole picture. The only problem with the book is the same thing that keep such Enron scumbags as Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling out of jail, Enron's dealings are almost totally in darkness. If you want the closest thing to a definitive book on the biggest scandal of this century (so far) , this is the one.4 out of 5 Stars.
Friday, August 22, 2003
Let's see if this one works out better, I read almost every waking hour.Since I have a drone job with peaks and valleys, I can actually read at work. And I'm not even a receptionist! I just don't listen to music or go to the movies enough to support Monoculture(though I'm keepin' the name). But I can read like a sumpin-sumpin.So ,here goes....
