Day: February 17, 2020

Book review: The Walking Dead Compendium 4

The Walking Dead Compendium 4.The Walking Dead Compendium 4 by Robert Kirkman.
My rating: 5 of 5 stars.

So this is where it all ends. The final instalment in the saga of The Walking Dead, in which a bunch of favourites will die, and the world will go on.

Probably not, man.

Or will it?
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Book review: The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones

The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones.The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones by Stanley Booth.
My rating: 5 of 5 stars.

The Stones are now a band that it’s impossible to view independently. They’re like a Mount Rushmore in dick-sticking jeans, or a Statue of Liberty with a drug problem: something that defies description.

Fact: you can smell this photo.

And yet, Stanley Booth’s book made me feel like I was closer to understanding the blokes in [an iteration of] the band than any number of tell-all interviews or coy promotional bullshit. (more…)