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Like A Rolling Stone. Bob Dylan at the Crossroads
by Greil Marcus | Biographies & Memoirs
Registered by wingVictoriaWagtailwing of Bagarmossen, Stockholm Sweden on Tuesday, September 28, 2010
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Journal Entry 1 by wingVictoriaWagtailwing from Bagarmossen, Stockholm Sweden on Tuesday, September 28, 2010

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"For the fortieth anniversary of the recording of 'Like a Rolling Stone' - the definitive biography of the song that caught the questing spirit of its time and overnight changed the rules of the possible in popular music for all time.

In 'Like a Rolling Stone' Marcus locates Dylan's six-minute masterwork in its richest, fullest context, capturing the heady atmosphere of the recording studio in 1965 as musicians and technicians clustered around the mercurial genius from Minnesota, the young Bob Dylan.

This is the stage for Marcus's recreation of the song on the page - its emergence from fragments, its words, its sounds, its discovery of itself." 

Journal Entry 2 by wingVictoriaWagtailwing at Centrum, Stockholm Sweden on Tuesday, March 08, 2011

3 out of 10

I've tried and I've tried, but I just can't get through this book. Reading in english usually isn't a prolem for me, but maybe this particular book is too hard? I don't know.

Maybe some other Bob Dylan-fan can enjoy this book better then I did (I know of other ppl who really liked this book, so it's probably just me...)? 

Journal Entry 3 by wingVictoriaWagtailwing at Centrum, Stockholm Sweden on Thursday, March 10, 2011

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This book is heading out on a bookray-journey. Pm me if you want to join in.

PJLBEwdy - Australia (International shipping)
Perryfran - US (International shipping)
Kizmiaz - Portugal (EU shipping)
Jujuks - Portugal (EU shipping)
(you?) 

Journal Entry 4 by wingVictoriaWagtailwing at Centrum, Stockholm Sweden on Tuesday, March 15, 2011

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Released 1 yr ago (3/15/2011 UTC) at Centrum, Stockholm Sweden

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This book is now on its way to Australia, from Stockholm to Stockton ;) 

Journal Entry 5 by wingPJLBewdywing at Stockton, New South Wales Australia on Sunday, March 27, 2011

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Received the book safely and have already devoured the included chocolates! Thanks for including me in the Ray - I will look forward to reading the book. 

Journal Entry 6 by wingPJLBewdywing at Stockton, New South Wales Australia on Thursday, March 31, 2011

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Released 1 yr ago (3/31/2011 UTC) at Stockton, New South Wales Australia

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Posted to Perryfran in Utah, USA as the next recipient in VictoriaWagtail's Ray

Some aspects of the book were fabulous but he does go on a bit! While I do not underestimate the significance of certain songs, albums, concerts to the evolution of Rock'N'Roll I think that the postulations contained in this book go a bit far. As those other Stones put it..'it's only Rock'N'Roll but I like it'. 

Journal Entry 7 by wingperryfranwing at North Ogden, Utah USA on Monday, April 11, 2011

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Received in today's mail. Thanks VictoriaWagtail for sharing and PJLBewdy for posting from Australia - also thanks for the nice Australian calendar & Mike Bloomfield CD.

I will get to this soon and send it on to the next reader. 

Journal Entry 8 by wingperryfranwing at North Ogden, Utah USA on Saturday, April 23, 2011

5 out of 10

Well this book was not quite what I expected. I thought it was going to be a biography of Dylan but instead it was a somewhat pretentious narrative of how "Like a Rolling Stone" came to be and how it is probably the greatest rock song ever! Not sure if I totally agree with that even though I do like the song and Bob Dylan's work. The book doesn't go into hardly any details of Dylan's life but it does have some good background on Dylan influences such as Muddy Waters and Robert Johnson. It also talks about Mike Bloomfield who was the guitarist on "Stone" and his downward spiral because of drugs. But overall, I wouldn't recommend this one - I think Marcus tries to make too much out of a great song and how it was perceived at the time. I was especially disappointed after recently reading "Life" by Keith Richards of the Stones which I loved -- this one really got into the life of Keith and the Rolling Stones.

Thanks again for including me in this ray. I'll be getting it off to Kizmiaz soon. 

Journal Entry 9 by wingperryfranwing at Lisboa - City, Lisboa (cidade) Portugal on Saturday, April 23, 2011

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Released 1 yr ago (4/23/2011 UTC) at Lisboa - City, Lisboa (cidade) Portugal

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Winging its way to kizmiaz in Portugal. 

Journal Entry 10 by kizmiaz at Belém , Lisboa (cidade) Portugal on Monday, May 02, 2011

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Just got it, thanks perryfran and VictoriaWagtail.
It'll have to wait until I finish my current reading. 

Journal Entry 11 by kizmiaz at Belém , Lisboa (cidade) Portugal on Wednesday, May 11, 2011

5 out of 10

This is quite a study on one song and I don’t mean that in a good way. The author makes a thorough research and analysis on Like a Rolling Stone and Dylan circa 1965. Sometimes it gets to the point of being painful; I really don’t need to know the particulars about the rap versions of the song or how many times it was performed live, but it has its interesting moments none the less.
I felt sometimes the book veered for a more fan approach and at other times it stuck to a more serious take on the song, artist, musical and social settings.
The enclosed music makes a nice soundtrack but I found that Dylan’s No Direction Home: a Soundtrack, Volume 7 of the Bootleg Series actually works better since it’s all the songs that Dylan was making in that period.
I would have liked the book better if it didn’t fell into so much detail about some songs that really have little to do with the subject of the book, I mean… Pet Shop Boys version of Go West gets the full treatment just like t was one of Dylan’s songs, why?
It was entertaining and it brought some things about Dylan’s career and writing into perspective but the rambling tendencies of the author were interference to the subject of the book itself.
Anyway I’m sending on its way when I get an address and I leave all the readers with suggestion that you go and pick one of Dylan’s latest original albums (his latest is Together Through Life, from 2009) and see how far he really came in his musical ramblings and how he still is one of the greatest lyricists that Rock ever had. I wonder if Dylan knows about this over analysis of his song and what he thinks of it… my guess is he must have laughed a lot during the reading, but then again, being who he is, he wouldn’t even want to know about it.
 

Journal Entry 12 by Jujuks at Lisboa - City, Lisboa (cidade) Portugal on Thursday, June 09, 2011

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Arrived yesterday.Still got another book to finish though. 

Journal Entry 13 by Jujuks at Lisboa - City, Lisboa (cidade) Portugal on Tuesday, July 05, 2011

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The best thing about this bookray was the cd, the author just went on and on about one song for 300 and something pages and I had to skip some of those pages just to get to the end of the book. 



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