A well crafted path through the history of NYHC. Differing perspectives offered throughout, no one viewpoint trumps another. The well known bands don’t get more airtime than those who slipped through the cracks. A thousand times more well written and worthwhile than American Hardcore.
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Hugh reviewed NYHC: New York hardcore 1980-1990 by Tony Rettman
Tony Rettman: NYHC (2014)
Oral history of the New York hardcore music scene.
Review of 'NYHC' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
Hugh rated Breakfast at Tiffany's and three stories: 5 stars
Hugh reviewed White butterfly by Walter Mosley
The police don't show up on Easy Rawlins's doorstep until the third girl dies. It's …
Review of 'White butterfly' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
“It’s a shame the way children will forgive parents their sins”
Walter Mosley is among America’s greatest living writers. Every time I pick up one of his books I read it impulsive and with an odd regret as I’ll never get to read it for the first time ever again.
Hugh rated Three Castles Burning: 5 stars
Hugh rated Born Fi' Dead: 5 stars
Hugh rated README.txt: 4 stars
README.txt by Chelsea Manning
An intimate, revealing memoir from one of the most important activists of our time.
While working as an intelligence analyst …
Hugh rated Truman Capote and the legacy of In cold blood: 4 stars
Hugh rated My Sad Cat Notebook: 4 stars
Hugh rated Awkward Black Man: 5 stars
Hugh rated The Moscoviad: 5 stars
The Moscoviad by Yuriy Ihorovych Andrukhovych
Lampoon of Ukrainians living in Moscow during the late times of the Soviet Empire. Each character presents a version of …
Hugh rated Abaddon's Gate: 5 stars
Abaddon's Gate by James S. A. Corey (The Expanse, #3)
For generations, the solar system -- Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt -- was humanity's great frontier. Until now. The …
Hugh reviewed Swastika Night by Katharine Burdekin
Swastika Night is a futuristic novel by British writer Katharine Burdekin, writing under the pseudonym …
Review of 'Swastika Night' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
Lots of big ideas (especially for the time) and critical themes. Hard to enjoy much given the stiff writing and the fact that most of the book’s meat consists of two long exposition dump conversations.
