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132 reviews
Tom Wolfe

Picador, 2008

Interesting and well-written
Tom Wolfe takes us through part of the acid-movement of the 60's with Ken Kesey (author of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest") and company as they embark on their journey across America to popularize acid. Wolfe writes in a way that sort of makes you feel that you are on acid too. His writing style in this book is very unique and he has an incredible way of describing things which is one thing I ...

Gothic: Dark Glamour
Valerie Steele, Jennifer Park

Yale University Press, 2008

From its origins in the eighteenth-century literature of terror to its contemporary manifestations in vampire fiction, cinema, and art, the gothic has embraced the powers of horror and the erotic macabre. ?Gothic? is an epithet with a strange history ? evoking images of death, destruction, and decay. Ironically, its negative connotations have made the gothic an ideal symbol of rebellion for a wide range of cultural outsiders. Popularly ...

The Brotherhoods: Inside the Outlaw Motorcycle Clubs

15 reviews
Arthur Veno

Allen & Unwin, 2004

Pretty darn good
This book is one of the few that I have read that didn't have the sensationalistic jargon attached to it that so many other's of it's type often do. It was just a good, solid and informative read. Although I feel that the author defenitely has/had an agenda, it was, in my opinion still a well written tome. It was also refreshing to get the view from the other side. If you are interested in ...

Subculture: The Meaning of Style (New Accents)

9 reviews
Dick Hebdige

Routledge, 1981

Excellent Resource
Hebdige's book is an excellent text that is enjoyable and informative to read. It is academic and poetic all at once, mirroring certain aspects of the self-conscious scene he describes. He takes on the challenge of recording both the history and method of cultural creation and change in Britain, and leaves the savvy reader at a good place for interpreting later subcultural movements (US punk & ...

Hiding in Hip Hop: On the Down Low in the Entertainment Industry--from Music to Hollywood

37 reviews
Terrance Dean

Atria, 2008

The Down Low Manifesto!
Hiding In Hip Hop: On The Down Low In The Entertainment Industry-From Music To Hollywood is one of several books published within the last several years about being black , gay, closeted in an environment that is hostile towards openly gay men. Closeted masculine black gay, bisexual and straight identified black men who have sex with other men is referred to as Down Low. The marketing ploy ...

Honor Few, Fear None: The Life and Times of a Mongol

19 reviews
Ruben Cavazos

William Morrow, 2008

Mongols MC go Madison Avenue
I guess it was only a matter of time before the Mongols MC, similar to Sonny Barger and the Hells Angels MC, embarked upon a public relations campaign of their own. In "Respect Few, Fear None" Mongols MC president Ruben "Doc" Cavazos presents his side of the story concerning the rivalry and clashes with the Hells Angels MC, the ATF undercover operation, and the history of the club. Doc's ...

Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk (An Evergreen book)

16 reviews
Legs McNeil, Gillian McCain

Grove Press, 2006

As authentic as it gets.......a riveting roller-coaster of a read
Sometime in the late 1960's, a bad mojo was beginning to well up within the ranks of the flower power movement. There were quite a few disaffected outsiders that seemed to have figured out that the revolution was not destined to last, that it was in fact quickly becoming a sham. As corporate America began to swallow and repackage the 60's, some of the folks left behind by the peace and love ...

Party Monster: A Fabulous But True Tale of Murder in Clubland

90 reviews
James St. James

Simon & Schuster, 2003

Love this book!
oh James St. James! I fell in love with the movie and wanted to read the book oringinally titled Disco Bloodbath, yet its price was always so high. I stumbled on the Party Monster book and bought two, sending one to my son. We both read the book nonstop until done. We siply lovethe way James writes. He is witty, completely well spoken and an absolute roar with the way he thinks.

Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground New Edition

137 reviews
Michael Moynihan, Didrik Soderlind

Feral House, 2003

great book
This is a great book if you are wanting to know more about the underground world of black metal. It also has subjects of diff. religions, Nazism, Fascism, Norse Mythology. It also has very good interviews with Black Metal musicians.

American Nerd: The Story of My People

15 reviews
Benjamin Nugent

Scribner, 2008

Worth reading, not purchasing
I got this from the local library, as I was intrigued by the title and content matter. I think the author provides a nice broad overview of some aspects of geek culture, but tends to give too shallow a treatment of them. For instance, his chapter on competitive video games. He contrasts Halo 2, a game that can be played online with people miles away just as easily as in a competition ...

Burning Book: A Visual History of Burning Man

6 reviews
Jessica Bruder

Simon Spotlight Entertainment, 2007

Best Burning Man book yet....
There is nothing out there that captures the experience of Burning Man better than this book. With its inventive graphics and many pictures, and a very well written account by the author, it seems this book was created for both veterans and the merely curious.

Stake That! (The Blood Coven)

12 reviews
Mari Mancusi

Berkley Trade, 2006

the best book ever!!!!
Stake That is an awesome book filled with mysterious vampires, vampire hotties, and twin girls that are as different as night and day. What more could you ask for. I found that I liked Rayne being the narrator better than Sunny. I just agree more with the way that Rayne views the world and her situations. I also enjoy the fact that she's not only a vampire, but she's also a vampire slayer, with a ...

Getting into Guinness: One Man's Longest, Fastest, Highest Journey Inside the World's Most Famous Record Book

40 reviews
Larry Olmsted

Collins, 2008

Full of surprises on any page
I found that I could open this book to any page and enjoy reading as much or as little as I wanted...and looked forward to picking it back up. Full of surprises and unbelievable feats and failures. The Guinness Book editors are painted as mysterious, all powerful, invisible judges who determine the acceptable course of pop culture and reward those it deems worthy. There is more to the book than ...

Psychic Vampire Codex: A Manual of Magick and Energy Work

20 reviews
Michelle A. Belanger

Weiser Books, 2004

An excellent read for the open minded only
This book cannot be read by someone without an open mind (vampire or not). There are alot of good details that I have found in this book, basic techniques such as grounding, centering and sheilding which can be used by anyone, all the way to feeding techniques that are for vamps only. This book isnt just all about techniques and feeding. It tells about the basic principal of a vampire all the way ...

The Rough Guide to Conspiracy Theories 1 (Rough Guide Reference)

5 reviews
James McConnachie, Robin Tudge

Rough Guides, 2005

Compulsive reading
I bought this book as something I could dip into but found I couldn't put it down! It was full of conspiracy theories I'd never heard of as well as fascinating insights into the classics, like JFK and the Dead Sea scrolls. The authors seemed open-minded and realistic in equal measure - just the right balance. Established theories and crackpot conspiracies were all analysed with the same ...

Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers

17 reviews
Tom Wolfe

Bantam, 1999

Fiction and Journalism
The cringing white liberal and the self-serving bureaucrat, the sychophantic Jewish silver-spoon socialist and the cunning black race-baiting political opportunist -- these are the types of characters that Tom Wolfe elucidates with wicked satire in his stories, which are a titillating admixture of acid fiction and scathing journalism. The types in this book, moreover, seem to be a fixture of the ...

Hippie

26 reviews
Barry Miles

Sterling, 2005

Hippie
Hippie by Barry Miles ***** One of the greatest and most interesting coffee table books in history. Hippie is bright with vibrant pictures of the hippie movement, which in this book is depicted as more than just a small gathering in San Francisco, California in the mid to late 1960's, but something that was much bigger and basically covered the entire globe. Packed with great and ...

The Politics of Ecstasy (Leary, Timothy)

7 reviews
Timothy Leary

Ronin Publishing, 1998

DO NOT READ THIS BOOK...
...if you wish to stay the same because believe me, once you read it, you never will be. I got this book when I was about 26-27 years old when I felt as though I was just passing through life and not really living it. I felt like everything was "ho-hum". All of my senses were set to dull. Inside of me there was just this gnawing ache that there has got to be something more...not just "out ...

Vice Dos and Don'ts: 10 Years of VICE Magazine's Street Fashion Critiques

10 reviews
Suroosh Alvi, Gavin McInnes, ...

Grand Central Publishing, 2004

like taking a $@#! on heroin
(That's a quote from somewhere in the book) I haven't stopped laughing since I picked up this book and now I also can't stop finding Do's and Don'ts all over the streets of Chicago. I'll be giving this book out to unsuspecting friends for Xmas this year.

Can't Find My Way Home: America in the Great Stoned Age, 1945-2000

6 reviews
Martin Torgoff

Simon & Schuster, 2005

GREAT BOOK FOR UNIVERSITY COURSES!!!
I'm reading this book a bit at a time. Each part is like a little history lesson - full of specific people, places and things that I've heard a lot of stories about - usually from folks who didn't have a great deal of clarity when they were either living through them OR speaking about them. Torgoff has that clarity and there's humor in his prose that gives it a certain kind of bop. Yes, it's ...

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