Books by Greil Marcus
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review 1: I was between the ages of 3 and 7 when the Doors were on the main stage. Too young, perhaps, to understand their lyrics, but not too young to know every one of them. Sharing a room with my brother, nine years my elder, I was raised on the Doors.This book went a long way toward ...
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review 1: Yes, 5 stars. I very much enjoy the author's style and bought this book confident that, almost regardless of the subject, the tangential journeys would keep me interested. And they did. I know enough of VM's music to have enjoyed this enormously. My "enough" is the generally well...
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review 1: The literary history of the United States through its more and less well-known writers, the speeches of presidents, declarations of independence, the birth of the Blues and Jazz to end with the election of the first black president. Although this manual was really long, it has be...