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Title: Weak in all senses of the term
Review: A fine title but the book just doesn't live up to its own hype. The reviews are lazy and self indulgent with perhaps the worst offender being the dialogue between two writers dissing the Doors. (I wasn't actually aware there were any critics who liked the Doors and I dare say it would be more daring to mount a defence of them at this point but that's another topic...) The writers showing they are just as trapped in their own petty bourgeoise mythology as those they attempt to topple. The book seems another example of the sort of limpid navel grazing twaddle that mistakes itself for daring...this sort of thing makes one long for rigor, or Lenin even.(There is however one important exception, the demolition of U2 which while not exactly a tough target is done with the wit and verve sadly lacking in about every other whimper in this book.)
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