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Book Reviews1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 | 0-9| A| B| C| D| E| F| G| H| I| J| K| L| M | | N| O| P| Q| R| S| T| U| V| W| X| Y| Z| Below are some recently posted reviews.  RSS Feed
Guy Debord: Complete Cinematic Works
Translated and edited by Ken Knabb
By Speedway Randy
Any present day anarchist and DIY-er will obviously be into this book – so will anyone simply tired of being gagged by shitty Hollywood movies, TV politicians, and backyard billboards.
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Dance of Days: Two Decades of Punk in the Nation’s Capital
by Mark Andersen & Mark Jenkins, 446 pgs.
By aphid
And it is chock full of information in much the same way that bran cereal is full of dietary fiber.
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War Is a Racket
By General Smedley Butler, 80 pgs.
By Sean Carswell
The original book and this essay give a very interesting perspective on the nature of war, the real purposes behind it, and the way insecurities are nurtured in order to allow more wars for big business.
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For Weeks Above the Umbrella
By Todd Dills, 76 pgs.
By Sean Carswell
This sucker is worth the seven bucks for the “Week of Grits” and “Week of Hanks” stories alone.
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Enemy’s Within, The
By Jimmy Reject, 120 pgs.
By Josh
Jimmy Reject seems like the kind of guy who you could talk to at a party for a few minutes and then phase out when his stories start to get worse.
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Emerging Framework of World Power, The
By Noam Chomsky, audio CD
By Maddy
Chomsky’s role – and it is an important one – is to do the extensive research necessary to tackle these constraints, sift through the garbage, and let us (who are too busy working, raising families, worrying about bills or just booking the latest punk tour) know what’s going on.
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Touch and Go: The Complete Hardcore Punk Zine ‘79-’83
By Tesco Vee and Dave Stimson, Edited by Steve Miller, 546 pgs.
By Guest Contributor
This book is highly recommended for anyone interested in the late ‘70s-early ‘80s Midwest punk and hardcore scenes, as well as general zine lovers.
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Straight Edge: Clean-Living Youth, Hardcore Punk, and Social Change
By Ross Haenfler, 248 pgs.
By Kevin Dunn
I can hang with him in the sections dominated by jargon-riddled prose, but I found his claim that straight edge is both a subculture (never adequately defined, by the way) and a social movement a little bit of an unoriginal copout. But his arguments about why straight edge is important socially and politically are convincing. Either way, this is definitely the best book about the straight edge movement I’ve come across.
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Please Take Me off the Guest List
By Nick Zinner, Zachary Lipez and Stacy Wakefield, 116 pgs.
By Kurt Morris
You gotta give me something here, Zachary. Instead, what I’m finding is some great layout work, a mixture of interesting, humorous, and some slightly dull photos interspersed with lackluster tales.
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Gnoll Credo, The
By J. Stanton, 178 pgs.
By Lauren Trout
By making it apparent that the Gnolls do not have an ideal life, I feel like Stanton is saying that humans could learn something from the Gnolls, as opposed to suggesting that humans need to go back into the caveman era and stay there.
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Firebrands: Portraits from the Americas
By Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative; ed. Shaun Slifer and Bec Young, 192 pgs.
By Lauren Trout
Each of the seventy-eight people profiled are immortalized with a beautifully drawn portrait, a well-researched but concise biography, and a particularly memorable quote.
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Ghost Pine: All Stories True
By Jeff Miller, 248 pgs., $16.95
By Keith Rosson
True stories that put forth as much comfort as they do conviction.
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Demons in the Spring
By Joe Meno, 272 pgs.
By Sean Carswell
What I like best about Joe’s short stories is the way he draws me into madness, captivates me, and ends the story without really letting me go, as he does with “Ghost Plane.”
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Bloodreal
By Crazy Carl Robinson 261 pgs.
By Andy Conway
It’s like I’m reading the private thoughts of a fat, sad loser and I mean that in the nicest way possible, as I’m pretty sure those were the author’s intentions anyway.
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Argh Fuck Kill: The Story of the Dayglo Abortions
By Chris Walter, 249 pgs.
By Lisa Weiss
Starting with frontman Murray “The Cretin” Acton punching a nun in kindergarten, this is an exhaustive history of the forces that shaped this “Proud to Be a Canadian” band.
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STORIES HOLLYWOOD NEVER TELLS
Howard Zinn, Audio Book
By Sean Carswell
Zinn begins by speaking of Hollywood movies that glorify war, like “Saving Private Ryan.” but then he expands his focus to cover the Mexican War, the Phillipino War, Mother Jones, the Ludlow Massacre, and the New England textile strikes. It’s a dazzling tour through not only films that are rarely made, but also through events in history that public schools gloss over or ignore completely.
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BECOME THE MEDIA
Jello Biafra, Audio Book
By Sean Carswell
Basically, “Become the Media” is kind of a crash course in leftist or radical politics. Biafra is admirably thorough in his research, and even when he’s not, his irreverence is enough to keep me listening.
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We Are an Image from the Future: The Greek Revolt of December 2008
Edited By A.G. Schwartz, Tasos Sagris, and Void Network, 371 pgs.
By Kurt Morris
Greeks seem to enjoy rioting.
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Taste of Penny, The
By Jeff Parker, 144 pgs.
By Kurt Morris
Still, at the end of the day, it’s a bunch of short stories, and, as with such collections, it can be really hit or miss.
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Snakepit 2009
By Ben Snakepit, 96 pgs.
By Sean Stewart
While I used to relish escaping into the absurdity of Ben’s hectic rollercoaster of a life, I now found myself commiserating with him as he grapples with the all too familiar drudgery of routine.
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Role Models
by John Waters, 320pgs.
By Billups Allen
His cult celebrity status allows him to walk through walls without causing a ruckus; he appears at home among kings and winos.
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Mythmakers and Lawbreakers
Edited by Margaret Killjoy 218 pgs.
By Guest Contributor
His answer to the first question posed is an astonishing eight pages long!
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From The Graveyard Of The Arousal Industry
By Justin Pearson, 186 pgs.
By Rene Navarro
The music scene in San Diego is pretty tight knit, and to anyone not really aware of a lot of the bands he talks about, this book might read like a never-ending name drop, which it kind of is.
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Diary of a Miscreant: A Morgenmuffel Zine Anthology
By Isy Morgenmuffel, 111 pgs.
By Sean Stewart
For anyone who is skeptical of whether it’s possible to live within society, and yet outside the system, I encourage you to read Isy’s comics.
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Come Hell or High Water: A Handbook on Collective Process Gone Awry
By Delfina Vannucci and Richard Singer, 127 pgs.
By Lauren Trout
In reality, the problems in a collective can be much more subtle and serious, and this book covers many that I have seen in the past when trying to work in a collective setting.
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