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Title: The Nick Tosches Reader by Nick Tosches ISBN: 0-306-80969-9 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: 04 April, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.6 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A writers writers writers writers livers writers life
Comment: Read this, and then get all his other books. Die Happy.
This is power writing of the kind we need more of. Tosches' gift is an ability to look in the places where the stupid assumptions that cover things over say don't look, and then to say it sensuously, joyously, marvelously, with accuracies of his own making.
Read this, then get all his other books. Live Happy.
Rating: 4
Summary: Good Overview of a Great Writer
Comment: I first discovered Nick Tosches when Creem magazine published his essay on Wynonie Harris way back when I was a kid. I have been a fan ever since. His writing is highly stylized. Imagine a hard boiled crime writer waxing eloquently on rhythm and blues, the mob, and boxing and you have a taste of Tosches. This book contains the sentence "It was like slipping wilbur into a thermos full of hot oysters." That alone makes it worth the purchase price.
I turn to Tosches' work again and again, for insights into music, and jsut for fun. Buy this book and you will too.
Rating: 4
Summary: Newark
Comment: I've always enjoyed Nick Tosches. I read "Country" years ago in a Nashville library; I halfway expected to get arrested. "Unsung Heroes of Rock 'n' Roll" never fails to lift my spirits--it's one of the funniest things ever written. His novels are all right, too, and I recommend "Cut Numbers," the paperback edition of which I just bought and read in one evening. And, of course, I never travel without my hardcover of "Dino." This collection has a little too much of his poetry for my taste (although I relish his dissection of Raymond Carver's poetry), and stuff like "Frankie, Part 1" doesn't quite make it for me. The piece on George Jones is just about the best thing here and worth the price of the book. "The Sea's Endless, Awful Rhythm & Me Without Even a Dirty Picture," from "Stranded" (an otherwise undistinguished collection of essays on desert-island records), is great too. I myself never bought any of that peace-and-love jive, and I am a fan of Jerry Lee Lewis and late-'40s rhythm-and-blues, so I find Mr. Tosches a kindred spirit, even though he's from Newark and I grew up in Tennessee. He's a great prose stylist and, I've heard tell, a snappy dresser as well. I once worked with a very pretentious lady editor, from Seattle, who, most annoyingly, liked to refer to Raymond Carver as "Ray" (I think she workshopped with him once or something). I made her a copy of Tosches's piece on Carver, "Please Be Quiet-Please," and I never had to suffer her conversation again.
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Title: The Last Opium Den by Nick Tosches ISBN: 158234227X Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Country: The Twisted Roots of Rock 'N' Roll by Nick Tosches ISBN: 0306807130 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: September, 1996 List Price(USD): $16.50 |
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Title: Where Dead Voices Gather by Nick Tosches ISBN: 0316895075 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: 21 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Cut Numbers : A Novel by Nick Tosches ISBN: 0316896586 Publisher: Back Bay Books Pub. Date: 30 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Dino: Living High in the Dirty Business of Dreams by Nick Tosches ISBN: 038533429X Publisher: Delta Pub. Date: 13 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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