Weekend reading roundup

[nanila]

How did your weekend reading go? If you planned on anything specifically, did you read it? (Reminder link to intended weekend reading post)

(Posting a bit earlier than usual because I'm away until late Thursday night.)

Comments

[ed_rex]

Neil Young's second memoir, Special Deluxe. More focussed than his first one from a couple of years back, the new volume nevertheless is strangely compelling reading. Nothing like your normal celebrity tell-all, let alone the even more common self-hagiography, it is instead a pretty honest glimpse into the obsessions of one of pop music's most iconoclastic (who else has been sued by his record company for making music "unlike" himself?) and vital creative forces.

I'm guessing he wrote the book via a microphone. Like its predecessor it feels a lot like one is sitting in an all-night diner across the table from the author while he rambles on telling you stories that are important to him. And somehow, they become important to you.

A great book? Definitely not. It's not even a particularly useful look back at a time and place. But as a voyage into a creative mind, it's fascinating.