I'm slightly mixed on this one. As a document of Black Flag and the punk scene of the early 80s, it is pretty fascinating (about 1/3 of the text). For a few years, Black Flag really did play everywhere all the time. Stretches of 100 shows over 100 days is totally insane. It is amazing that the band made it that long, when they were in actuality sleeping on top of each other in the van every night.

But in some ways, that's the only time Rollins is alive. About 1/3 of the book is written during his time off in LA (when he was living in the tool shed in Greg Ginn's backyard) and he seems to go crazy with the idleness. It is only when they are back on tour, that he comes to life. Although, he does seem to be to thrive on the pain of the road because of sadomasochism, self loathing, and an overly active work ethic (maybe why he lasted much longer than the others with workaholic Greg Ginn). He spends pages and pages cutting himself, thrilling in the violence of conflict with audiences, then hiding from them so he doesn't have to interact with them.

About 1/3 of this was also pretty terrible. Long sections of violent fantasies and hated (self and otherwise) which I mostly just skimmed over.

At the end of this, I think I probably like Rollins less than I did before I started but I did enjoy learning lots more about this era of music.