Stephen Davis

Advantages: Riveting, no holes bared, read.
Disadvantages: That it ends.

...It may not need to be re-stated but I am a pretty big Aerosmith fan. Then again, I would have probably bought this book were I not, thanks to the warm response and celebration that Walk This Way received from critics when it was released. At the time of its publication Aerosmtih were touring the album Nine Lives (the first Aerosmith album I was album to buy upon release) and all I, and most over fans, really knew about the band was what had been disclosed in interviews and press releases and the somewhat short and concise biog that had come with the Pandora's Box booklet. With Stephen Davis' book all that changed, beyond all expectations too. Stephen Davis was previously acclaimed as the writer of the Led Zep biog Hammer of the Gods and, recently, the Jim Morrison story. Walk This Way is an unflinching account of life in Americas... Read review

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Advantages: common myths and misconsceptions explained in plain English
Disadvantages: unorganised content pages, hard to find questions again

..., if that's what you thought. "The Book of General Ignorance" is often mistakenly accredited to Stephen Fry who's the quizmaster in the TV show but apart from a foreword by him he doesn't actually contribute much else. Even Alan Davies has a few words to say - four to be precise. The book is actually compiled by two Johns, John Lloyd (of '"Not the 9 o'clock news", "Spitting Image" and "Blackadder" fame) and John Mitchinson. The book is actually a collection of topics raised in the TV show. If you've watched all of them then you will know the questions and - if you paid attention - remember some of the answers. Reading some of the answers I still have Stephen Fry's voice bouncing around in my head. I can imagine that some of the passages in the book were lifted straight from the crib-sheets Fry takes his information from. As I mentioned... Read review

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Advantages: Cracking good read
Disadvantages: none

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