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Mountaineerdave

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Peter Ames Carlín: The Name of This Band is R.E.M.: A Biography (Doubleday)

In the spring of 1980, an unlikely group of musical eccentrics -- Michael Stipe, Peter …

I want to say I loved this book, but I didn't. There's something to the author's style that I liked in small doses that as the end arrived, amped up. Also, I heard him discuss the book in a podcast. How he described the book didn't really match up with what I read. It's a fun story about a group of guys who went from college kids monkeying around to becoming my favorite musicians of ever and always, but the author left me feeling... like I learned very little? I'm not sure. In the end, disappointing.

Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451 (Paperback, 1988, Del Rey / Ballantine Books)

Guy Montag was a fireman whose job it was to start fires...

The system was …

A Classic... that I absolutely disliked from page 5 forward...

A slog. The idea I get, but ugh. I hated the writing style, the way it progressed. I just did not like much of this book at all. Which is probably why I recall nothing about it from high school when I first read it 3x years ago.