Really bad cover art as well: kind of a pensive graduate scool hippy girl
with lanky hair and a pen.
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>Subject: Re: Re: The Sharper Word
>Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 13:51:28 -0800
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> > Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 14:57:42 -0000
> > From: "Julian Lawton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Subject: Re: The Sharper Word
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> > >What can anyone tell me about this new Paolo Hewitt book?
> > >Is it good? Are the source texts easily available elsewhere anyway?
> > Yeah it's good, but as Abigail pointed out, most of the stuff is what
> > 'everyone' has read - i.e. Barnes, and bits from sociology books,
> > Tom Wolfe, Macinnes etc. There's very little in the way of exclusively
> > re-printed material from magazines / fanzines / etc. So, yes, it's
> > all moderately easily available elsewhere, but it's still a good
> > 'compilation' and good value for money.
> >
>
>Well, that is what I was gonna say....However if you don't already
>have most of this stuff it is an excellent starting point...and will
>eliminate
>lots of time tracking down the originals (which are still the
>greatest....um...
>sorry). However since most of these are just excerpts anyway, you'll
>probably want to find these books to get the whole context.
>I thought it surprising that Hamblett / Deverson's "Generation X" ('64)
>wasn't quoted at all, nor was George Melly "Revolt into Style" ('70)...
>Perhaps there were copyright considerations.
>
>Some friends and I were talking about this book the other day and
>mentioning
>how annoying it was that after searching for all these books, somebody
>can buy it all pre-packaged from amazon with zero effort involved.
>I guess that is the way DJs must feel when all their records are put out on
>a
>comp.
>It just keeps getting easier to be a mod. Hell, Piaggio is even coming
>back to
>America.
>
>Dan
>
>
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