Lipstick Traces by Greil Marcus

[King Bob]

I gave up on this after about 75 pages. I was interested because he wanted to trace a line from the Dadaists through the Situationists to Punk. Unfortunately it didn't really work for me. I found it terribly overwritten, like he wants to be poetic when it would be better just to say it straight. And he takes tenuous connections and correlations and treats them as causal or plays them up in ways I found unconvincing. No wonder I've seen so many used copies.

[Drunk Monk]

Do we need a 'Books that were so godawful, even I couldn't get through it' thread? It'd be akin to this: http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomFor...p?tid=3296

Because I could rule a thread like that. If you think martial arts movies are B-grade, martial books are more like F-grade.