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Summary: Go get it!
Review: Do you like Bowie? Do you like pictures of David Bowie? Then go get the book. It is lovely, with a lot of pictures I never saw before.
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Summary: a fantastic pictorial...
Review: I had my doubts about the book based on the title "bowie style", but the ever in-the-know Joel Stones strongly recommended it to me, so i checked it out and couldn't put it down. Chock full of pictures from way back in the beginning--the usual childhood ones, but from the beginning of his career until the present, as well as pics of various influences on Bowie and people he has in turn influenced. Well worth it for the pics alone, with interesting information and stories scattered throughout. Extremely cool for Bowie fans, and very interesting for all music fans who enjoy tracing back the times and trends...
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Summary: a fantastic pictorial...
Review: I had my doubts about the book based on the title "bowie style", but the ever in-the-know Joel Stones strongly recommended it to me, so i checked it out and couldn't put it down. Chock full of pictures from way back in the beginning--the usual childhood ones, but from the beginning of his career until the present, as well as pics of various influences on Bowie and people he has in turn influenced. Well worth it for the pics alone, with interesting information and stories scattered throughout. Extremely cool for Bowie fans, and very interesting for all music fans who enjoy tracing back the times and trends...
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Summary: SIMPLY THE BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: Oh Lord, not another Bowie book! I was expecting it to be OK - you know, a few nice pix I hadn't seen before or had forgotten about, plus the usual mishmash of facts we've read in countless bowie biogs over these golden years.How wrong could I have been? This book is nothing short of trancendent. It would surpass the expectations of even the most uncritical of Bowie fans. Why? Well there's... The quality of the paper and reproduction of the photos and artwork, not to mention the stunning front and back covers - simply inspired. I can't remeber the last time I saw a book cover as suitably stylish as this . The many, many photos - literally hundreds of them. From what I can gather, there has never been a Bowie book with so many photos in it. The fact that so many of them are completely beautiful and, to my knowledge, never seen before (and I already own quite a few) makes this an essential point. The fascinating text - do we really want to read the same old yarns about insanity in Bowie's family and the ongoing feud with Angie? I think not, and we're spared them here. Instead the text effortlessly matches the relevant pix, with clever, insightful (and very English) prose and superb captions - at times extremely funny and entertaining, at other times highly informative (who knew that Ronnie Wood inspired the Duke's costume in 76, eh?). Oh I could go on for ages... but BowieStyle really lives up to it's title. An immaculate collection indeed. BUY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: Awesome Bowie Pictoral Guide
Review: This book is great for fans of David Bowie. It's loaded with awesome color photos spanning his entire career, from Ziggy's flashy red hair up to the late '90s and his ultra-cool Union Jack overcoat. Bowie has always been one to set fashion trends, and "Bowiestyle" is a very entertaining and enlightening look at David over his exceptional career. The written passages aren't quite as impressive, but they do hold lots of neat trivia-type information and very nicely augment the high quality photography. (and hey.. if you want a Biography, there are several available) Overall loads of fun to leaf through, and a cool look back at the styles and trends that this artist so deftly influenced.
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Summary: Awesome Bowie Pictoral Guide
Review: This book is great for fans of David Bowie. It's loaded with awesome color photos spanning his entire career, from Ziggy's flashy red hair up to the late '90s and his ultra-cool Union Jack overcoat. Bowie has always been one to set fashion trends, and "Bowiestyle" is a very entertaining and enlightening look at David over his exceptional career. The written passages aren't quite as impressive, but they do hold lots of neat trivia-type information and very nicely augment the high quality photography. (and hey.. if you want a Biography, there are several available) Overall loads of fun to leaf through, and a cool look back at the styles and trends that this artist so deftly influenced.
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Summary: Simply the best!
Review: This book is quite simply the best Bowie book out there.
If you're a lifelong fan, such as myself, you will thoroughly enjoy it from front to back cover!
It's quite simply Bowie Brilliant!!!
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Summary: A book strictly for fans - but well done!
Review: This book was a clever idea indeed. Why write another Bowie biography when there have been too many of them already? Personally, I like most of them and I strongly recommend the recently published "Strange Fascination", by David Buckley, even though it is only available in Britain at the time of writing. But quite a few Bowie fans have complained that they have no patience to read a long, detailed biography. So give them what they want: a glossy, coffee-table book full of pictures that will make female fans go WOW, plus bits and pieces of information that can be read piecemeal, in no particular order. Done by the wrong people, it could have been an embarrassing exercise in teenage-like worship. But these guys are experts and the results are more than worth the price of admission. Each chapter is devoted to an aspect of Bowie's life - there's even one about his favorite cigarette brands! This is really a fan's bible if there ever was one.
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Summary: Good book for fans
Review: This book was way better than I expected. First of all, something not immediately apparent when you buy the book off of Amazon is that this book is big, about 12" by 10". All the pages are glossy and filled about half with color photographs, the other half with commentary and quotes. The book isn't arranged in a linear timeline like a biography would be. Instead it breaks down by theme, with sections on topics like musical periods in Bowie's work, lady loves, musical influences, influential books (Bowie has apparently described himself as a "born librarian with a sex drive"), origins of Ziggy, people influenced by Bowie, etc. Each section is filled with relevant photographs, quotes, and historical info. Not only is it well-researched and great eye candy, but the author's insights are pretty interesting too. The author must be a fan or otherwise have some kind of photographic memory, since the text is peppered with obscure references to Bowie songs that are pretty fun when you notice them. If you're looking for a straightforward biography, then this isn't it. Although Bowiestyle probably contains as much information as a biography would, it's not ordered linearly by time like your average biography is. I found it all the more interesting to read for that, though. Of all the books I've seen on Bowie, I rate this the best. One Bowie fan to another, a good buy.
Rating:
Summary: Good book for fans
Review: This book was way better than I expected. First of all, something not immediately apparent when you buy the book off of Amazon is that this book is big, about 12" by 10". All the pages are glossy and filled about half with color photographs, the other half with commentary and quotes. The book isn't arranged in a linear timeline like a biography would be. Instead it breaks down by theme, with sections on topics like musical periods in Bowie's work, lady loves, musical influences, influential books (Bowie has apparently described himself as a "born librarian with a sex drive"), origins of Ziggy, people influenced by Bowie, etc. Each section is filled with relevant photographs, quotes, and historical info. Not only is it well-researched and great eye candy, but the author's insights are pretty interesting too. The author must be a fan or otherwise have some kind of photographic memory, since the text is peppered with obscure references to Bowie songs that are pretty fun when you notice them. If you're looking for a straightforward biography, then this isn't it. Although Bowiestyle probably contains as much information as a biography would, it's not ordered linearly by time like your average biography is. I found it all the more interesting to read for that, though. Of all the books I've seen on Bowie, I rate this the best. One Bowie fan to another, a good buy.
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