It's all a load of Cannonballs in here! This is the virtual Arsenal pub where you can chat about anything except football. Be warned though, like any pub, the content may not always be suitable for everyone.
flash gunner wrote:Im not being controversial here and not taking the piss either but has anyone ever read Mein Kampf? I havent but always wondered what its like and wondered about getting a copy purely for historical purposes im not a Fascist/Rascist
it's very very dull, not worth the time. if you want to understand more about hitler try:
flash gunner wrote:Im not being controversial here and not taking the piss either but has anyone ever read Mein Kampf? I havent but always wondered what its like and wondered about getting a copy purely for historical purposes im not a Fascist/Rascist
it's very very dull, not worth the time. if you want to understand more about hitler try:
i got it out of my uni library once...think i must have been hungover...read the 1st few pages but found it too difficult to read...the sort of thing you find yourself reading the same paragraph 3 times to take it in. that and the fact it was an old copy with tiny print i gave up.
flash gunner wrote:Im not being controversial here and not taking the piss either but has anyone ever read Mein Kampf? I havent but always wondered what its like and wondered about getting a copy purely for historical purposes im not a Fascist/Rascist
it's very very dull, not worth the time. if you want to understand more about hitler try:
Read it while i was at aschool, put it down after aabout 80 pages, fcuking bored with it.
Am reading Steve Adler's biography at the mo, Original drummer from Guns'N'Roses (not the current Axlrose gnr tribute band thats doing the rounds at the moment)
pretty darn good.
Anthony Keidis(?) from the Chilli Peppers has the badest biog i've read of a musical variety well well worth it.
12thGooner wrote:Read it while i was at aschool, put it down after aabout 80 pages, fcuking bored with it.
Am reading Steve Adler's biography at the mo, Original drummer from Guns'N'Roses (not the current Axlrose gnr tribute band thats doing the rounds at the moment)
pretty darn good.
Anthony Keidis(?) from the Chilli Peppers has the badest biog i've read of a musical variety well well worth it.
Is it as no-holds-barred as Slash's autobio? A great read that one.
12thGooner wrote:Read it while i was at aschool, put it down after aabout 80 pages, fcuking bored with it.
Am reading Steve Adler's biography at the mo, Original drummer from Guns'N'Roses (not the current Axlrose gnr tribute band thats doing the rounds at the moment)
pretty darn good.
Anthony Keidis(?) from the Chilli Peppers has the badest biog i've read of a musical variety well well worth it.
Is it as no-holds-barred as Slash's autobio? A great read that one.
Enjoyed Keidis's book too.
I've finished it now, in 2nd fastest time for me and a book
the thing about Steve Adler's book compared to slash is he got chucked out // left the band as they hit the big time. so it ends up not as much about the band and more his personal story up until 2009. Having read slash's biog first this offers an alternative angle on quite a few aspects especially when they were kids to just before steve left the band.
its brutally honest and its easy to read and has some great stories in it that i can only dream of doing.
If you were a fan of the band in the 80's 90's this is definately worth a read, any new fans i think this would be lost on, primarily because i remmebr reading and watching about these events as a kid so they have meaning to me.
Rage Against the Machine: Stage Fighters [Paperback]
Paul Stenning
Its not about the members of the band as individuals although it does touch upon that in the early stages. This is more of the politicla motivations and background and actions of the band as an entitiy and what they were/are about in that respect.
Definately one for anyone who paid attention to the lyrics of their music or has the belief that giving a finger to the system is better than not.
Bill Hicks: Love All the People: Letters, Lyrics, Routines
For those of you that don't know who he is. He's basically a white stand up version of Richard Pryor. I say that as this guy like RP had the balls to say exactly what he wanted and not give a shit what anyone thought and to a large degree many stand ups since him have taken a lot of 'inspiration' from his material.
As the cover says this is edited transcripts from lots of shows, so unfortunately there is some overlap in material. Why no one thought to only include unique references is beyond me. But this only every amounts to a couple of paragraphs every so often.
The interviews are really telling of a frank and honest guy.
Its transcript so yu have to get past the fact that he's actually takling to you while you read, but once you do its effing hilarious.
worth a read if you like having a chuckle while reading, its seriously helped with this insane commute i've taken on.
Bill Hicks: Love All the People: Letters, Lyrics, Routines
For those of you that don't know who he is. He's basically a white stand up version of Richard Pryor. I say that as this guy like RP had the balls to say exactly what he wanted and not give a shit what anyone thought and to a large degree many stand ups since him have taken a lot of 'inspiration' from his material.
As the cover says this is edited transcripts from lots of shows, so unfortunately there is some overlap in material. Why no one thought to only include unique references is beyond me. But this only every amounts to a couple of paragraphs every so often.
The interviews are really telling of a frank and honest guy.
Its transcript so yu have to get past the fact that he's actually takling to you while you read, but once you do its effing hilarious.
worth a read if you like having a chuckle while reading, its seriously helped with this insane commute i've taken on.
RIP Bill Hicks.
Read it. Enjoyed it. Loved Hicks. One of the best stand-ups. But for anyone that doesn't know him, he was very different to RP (who I loved too) in that BH was all about modern society, politics, government, corruption etc but I agree they were similar in that neither gave a fuck about authority and weren't afraid to say it as they saw it.
The material overlap apparently was to show how his routine "developed" over time but to me it stank a little of being a "filler". Still it didn't take away from a great read.
I'm still reading Pity the Nation, by Robert Fisk.
It's taken me months to get to page 487, which is about 3/4 the way through.
Thank you to whatever bastard from here recommended it.
It's a seriously good read about the Israeli invasion of Lebanon. Quite an eye opener. The author is an Irish journalist. Quite impartial, in my judgement.
As a non-Jewish loosely aligned to Israel type of person, I found it quite an eye opener.
Anyone else read it? And can the culprit who got me into it please step forward?
olgitgooner wrote:I'm still reading Pity the Nation, by Robert Fisk.
It's taken me months to get to page 487, which is about 3/4 the way through.
Thank you to whatever bastard from here recommended it.
It's a seriously good read about the Israeli invasion of Lebanon. Quite an eye opener. The author is an Irish journalist. Quite impartial, in my judgement.
As a non-Jewish loosely aligned to Israel type of person, I found it quite an eye opener.
Anyone else read it? And can the culprit who got me into it please step forward?
I have a feeling it might be DB10?
hmmm... might have been... I've recommended it to a few people. Fisk is not very popular with the Septics as he is very critical of their 911 response and post war efforts in Iraq. But he does try and give a balanced view.
I know he went to college in Dublin but I think he is actually English by birth though...
Just finished reading Out of this world: the story of Muse.
Great read written by a former/ freelance music journo. Its a well detailed rise from small town boys to current stadium filling status. Its written thrid party so there is some 'interpretation' in the bands actions but the author has pretty unprecedented access. There is a great description in the political ideology that goes behind the songs so if your a muse fan there some good insight there, albeit a little bizzare , depending on your own political point of view and if you're not then you should be from the first album to the current one its a great massive finger to the system.
