Thursday, October 29, 2009

Bob Dylan Chronicles - Bob Dylan





I picked up this book because the premise sounded interested. An upcoming struggling folk artist in the 80's greenwich village trying to make it big. Its a 1st person narration by Bob Dylan himself to the point where a lot of the chapters just seem like brain farts. He doesn't seem to have any structure at the book level or chapter level. There's a vague chronology of all the events happening in his life but it's really hard to follow and includes A LOT of references to obscure artists that probably only folk music historians would know.

I found myself losing interest in this book about half way through, because frankly I picked up this book to get some interesting stories about his upcoming struggles but it was more of a walk through his Bob Dylans mind.