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Title: Horse's Neck by Pete Townshend ISBN: 0395905591 Publisher: Mariner Books Pub. Date: 21 May, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.38
Rating: 5
Summary: Quite interesting
Comment: A very good read, lots of creative imagery. I think you should know a bit about Pete before you read the book or you might be a little shocked! I used to be very confused by Pete Townshend, but this clears it all up for me. Really fun stories that compare to nothing I have every read before! Get it now...
Rating: 2
Summary: Pete Should Always Have his Guitar with his Pen
Comment: Having been a fan of Pete Townshend and The Who since I was old enough to rebel, I came into reading Horse's Neck with high hopes. After all, Townshend was the brain of The Who, its impassioned writer who made generations of teens to WANT to experience angst, and who made battling personal demons fashionable. But unfortunately, this collection of vignettes illustrates why Pete made it as writer of lyrics rather than prose. Horse's Neck, like James Joyce's Dubliners, is a sort of a chronological hodgepodge of character studies, rather than a set of short stories. Only unlike Joyce, Townshend is really only studying one character--his own. While traces of humor and poignancy present themselves in these semi-autobiographical tales, the writing is often clunky and pointless, particularly in one unnecessarily long detective drama. The true fan will, however, benefit from the book if only to see oft-used Townshend themes and phrases used in a different format. Take the lyrics of "Who By Numbers," have a dime-store novelist with a penchant for the perverted translate the lyrics, and you get the idea of what Horse's Neck is like.
Perhaps if Townshend had been a prose writer from the beginning, his work would have blossomed like his music writing did. After all, amazingly well-written gems like "The Song is Over" and "The Sea Refuses No River" were proceeded by deservedly less known songs like "I Can't Reach You" and "Faith in Something Bigger." That being said, the feeling here is that Pete would have been better off taking a shot at another concept album rather than writing Horse's Neck.
Rating: 4
Summary: Windmills--for Pete
Comment: I hate to admit it, but the reason Pete is my favorite R&B/country rock singer is his writing. I love his jumps, cowboy dance steps & windmills, but the rhythms of his short stories & poems are as romanic as his music. Horse's Neck is a bracing, astringent, lyrical collection of stories & poems, which I may read at the Who concert, if I make it out out of the house without some crazy idiot stalking me--it's nutty here! At any rate, I love his dialogues, monologues, lyrics--perfect for reading with a hangover, in the bathtub, while listening to Chinese Eyes, after breaking up with your boyfriend, on the bus, or the el! Pete IS the Quixote of rock! Bye, luv!
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Title: Lifehouse by Pete Townshend ISBN: 0743212738 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Intl Pub. Date: March, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title:Who's Next (Deluxe Edition) ASIN: B00008LOS1 Publisher: Mca Pub. Date: 25 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $23.99 |
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Title: Behind Blue Eyes: The Life of Pete Townshend by Geoffrey Guiliano, Geoffrey Giuliano ISBN: 0815410700 Publisher: Cooper Square Press Pub. Date: July, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Anyway Anyhow Anywhere: The Complete Chronicle of THE WHO 1958-1978 by Matthew Kent, Andrew Neill ISBN: 1586635913 Publisher: Friedman/Fairfax Publishing Pub. Date: 30 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: Pete Townshend: A Minstrel's Dilemma by Larry David Smith ISBN: 0275964728 Publisher: Praeger Publishers Pub. Date: March, 1999 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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