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Summary: If you were a geek...
Review: ... then you can identify with a lot that Hank says in these five books. Altougth the tend to run together, this is a great combination of prose and poetry. First find Get In The Van, then pick this book up.
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Summary: If you were a geek...
Review: ... then you can identify with a lot that Hank says in these five books. Altougth the tend to run together, this is a great combination of prose and poetry. First find Get In The Van, then pick this book up.
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Summary: Certain demographics
Review: Henry Rollins appeals to a very specific demographic: That being the young, misfit of society, usually lives in a small town and has been ostracized their whole life. You devour every page, every note, every word of artists like Henry Rollins, because nobody in your school likes you, because you're working a really bad job trying to get through college, because things never got better when you got out of school, just a meaner continuance of what came before. So you draw strength from Henry and his madness. Me, personally I'm tired of his books because I've moved on from the phase of life but if you're 14-26 you should read this stuff.
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Summary: Very Insightful
Review: Henry Rollins has written 12 books in his life. They seem to be all very good and well written in my eyes. People should take his work for what it is. He is not a god or prophet and at the same time he is not evil. He is just a man who is writing about his personal experiences...that is all. He is writing about what is on his mind. We should all do that.
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Summary: 4.5 actually
Review: I've read Hank's other books and I love them all; not just because they're good reading, because they're true. And this one is no exception. These first five collected books are a great look back at how it all began for a man that became such a voice for hard reality, pain and strength. If you don't want to have to think about any of those things, I wouldn't recommend this book to you, or maybe I would, because it's always good to view both sides of the coin in life.Though fictional, with the exception of his journal entries, all the short prose and poems have an edge to them that makes you wonder if maybe they could be true; as if your reading the story of someone else's life or even your own. Rollins has a masterful grip on how people think, feel and interact and he's not afraid to delve deep into the darkest parts to put them on paper.
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Summary: So good, my grandma felt it!!
Review: Originally, I thought that a book written by Henry Rollins would be nothing but an angry, cold-hearted jerk-fest. As I read on, however, I found that there was true emotion and heart-felt anguish that the reader could relate to. The best part was when he talked about drug-addiction. There was no more wrenching part in any book that I can think of. Well-placed references to his life in one of the most popular punk bands of the 80's gave insight to the trials and tribulations that he must have endured living as such. There is no better book for the modern poet to read and learn about how real reflections into life are, not sonnets and ballads to your loved ones, but pain and fury.
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Summary: very disappointed
Review: Saw his spoken word show ten years ago and loved it. Fully expected to love this book, but I was wrong. I'd go into more detail, but my last review didn't make it through the censors, so I'll stop here.
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Summary: Learn not to flinch
Review: The First Five is undoubtably one of the densest volumes of pain ever published. Mean and to the point, Rollins puts down with fury prose poems jammed full of the loniliness of the road, the wounding and scarring of heartbreak, and the strength required to walk through it and walk away with a lesson learned. This book contains Pissing in the gene pool, Bang! High Adventure in the Great Outdoors, Art to choke hearts, and One from None, with the texts re-edited this His words take hold of you in the deep dark parts of your heart and mind that many find too painful to dwell in on the nights alone, and drags you through it all and out the other side. Leaving you changed and looking at everything and everyone slightly different from there on out.
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Summary: must have!
Review: The intensity of Henry Rollins early works is unmatchable. Henry is a prophet, a visionary, a force of nature, and a genius. BUY THIS BOOK, IT WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE!!
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Summary: kiks ass
Review: this book has gave me courage to write some of my thoughts in poetry form and connect with a part of me that i don't let others see, it gave me a chance to speak out how i feel and what's wrong with this world
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