Title: The Truth about Joel McIver's opinions
Review: I walked away with the distinct impression this book was more about Joel McIver than about Metallica.About 80% of it is his opinions on the bands music and the thrash metal genre overall, with some quotes from people within the genre included, and about 20% hard information on the band, it's members, and it's history.A big question to ask after reading any biography is what did you learn about the topic of the biography that you didn't already know. Unfortunately with this book, the answer is almost nothing.However I now do know what Joel McIver "informed" opinions are of Metallica, their music, the thrash metal genre, other bands in the thrash metal genre, and his opinions of those other bands and their music.While I understand any author will include their own thoughts about a subject in a biography, when they let those take over the majority of the work, they're misrepresenting what the book is really about.
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