Title: Ray's storytelling is best suited to his songwriting.
Product review: I am a huge Kinks and Ray Davies fan. It is clear that Ray is playing up his new "Storyteller" image that he created with the first installment of the VH-1 series and his solo CD. But his storytelling is best suited to his songwriting and one-man show. The stories in this book are disjointed and make no sense. Ray may be trying too hard to be some kind of existentialist poet and pays too little attention to plot. For the benefit of Kinks fans, he throws in the lyrics to Kinks songs that have little to do with the stories except for their titles. The stories are a lot like his film "Return to Waterloo", which had little plot but benefitted from the great music. The music, of course, is missing from this book, unless you plan on playing each song mentioned as you read it.
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