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Ahmad Albrakti albrkati — I would have given this book five stars if it had a more cohesive sense of continuity, but with the sheer amount of ground Reynolds covers, I don't know if that would have been possible. Each individual chapter, typically covering a group of stylistically or otherwise related artists, usually in a particular city or region, reads more like a standalone article, though the chronological ordering of the chapters and the web of mutual influence among the artists made it inevitable that certain names would pop up throughout the book. There are general themes that Reynolds touches on throughout, perhaps the most fascinating being the fact that the musical climate left in the wake of the '70s punk bands was largely responsible for the development of both noisy, confrontational, disturbing bands like Throbbing Gristle and Whitehouse, and groups like The Thompson Twins and Simple Minds, who seemed to personify the most innocuous, disposable pop of the era. I was continually surprised when ideas that were patently absurd on the surface, like Depeche Mode being the recontextualization as pop music of the sounds of metal-banging early industrial groups like Einsturzende Neubauten and Test Dept, made a lot of sense when I really thought about them. If you have any interest at all in the post-punk music that came out between 1978 and 1984, Rip It Up and Start Again is an absolutely essential read. Bands like Joy Division, Wire, Gang of Four, Talking Heads, Public Image Ltd, Pere Ubu, The Fall, Devo, Cabaret Voltaire, and dozens of others are treated in depth, with hundreds more mentioned in passing. It took me months to finish, not because its content wasn't compelling, but because I was constantly stopping to spend weeks tracking down and listening to music from numerous artists who were either unfamiliar to me, or whose more creative (and typically earlier) work I hadn't heard. [Get the British edition, with the yellow cover, if at all possible. A lot of material was cut in the U.S. edition ]

Stoyan Iliyn _boy — Although this is a novel it reads like a true story. It is a very touching book.

Earl Downs zonadowns228d — In my efforts to read Agatha Christie's books chronologically, I had to read this book a little bit out of order. This was written (or at least published) after "The Secret of Chimneys," but I finished this book before "Chimneys" since I had it on loan from the library's inter-library loan. They don't allow renewals for ILL! Regarding the book itself, this was not my favorite Poirot, although it does have classic buffoonery from Hastings. The plot is spaced out over almost a year's time, which is a bit different from the Christie's I have read recently. Many of those take place over a much shorter period of time, with perhaps a trial taking place a little while after most of the action occurred. In "The Big Four," almost every chapter occurs a month after the previous, and there are several seemingly unrelated mysteries covered. I say "seemingly" because Poirot realizes these mysteries are all from The Big Four.