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Title: A bit of a bummer
Review: I enjoyed the coverage of the Cleveland scene and there is a nice chapter on Suicide, but on balance this book is irritating. Much of it reads like a wrinkly love letter to Patti Smith, Heylin absolutely loathes British punk and the book ends with a "Postlude" that is both a bilious screed against any and all other writers on punk and also a frank mash note to Smith. That's hardly writing on "The Birth Of American Punk Rock," as per the subtitle, but rather some kind of personal emotional problem better suited to a therapeutic setting. See p. 331 for Heylin's sad description of Jon Savage's "England's Dreaming:" this is just unforgivable. So: find a used copy and pick out the interesting bits, ignore the rest.
