David Toop: Haunted Weather

[V Knid esq]

I think this book deserves its own thread outside the reading thread because IT'S JUST GOOD. Best book about music and perception I've read, anyway. A lot less poetic and a lot more understandable than his previous books.

[phonudja]

only a slight tangent here:

...coming over to London in 2 weeks and as usual intending to stock up on reading matter. What's a good address in London to find this kind of thing - literature on 'pop' music (Toop, but also Dan Sicko, Lawrence's "Love Saves the Day", etc.).

[Boing!]

I'm reading it at the moment.

It's a good read, despite his excursions into personal discourse which are quite similar to Iain Sinclair. Both I think are trying to do the same thing, mapping out their world, and more often than not doing a great job of it, but the problem is that their worlds are often just too dense for others to make out.

[Boing!]

Originally posted by phonudja
only a slight tangent here:

...coming over to London in 2 weeks and as usual intending to stock up on reading matter. What's a good address in London to find this kind of thing - literature on 'pop' music (Toop, but also Dan Sicko, Lawrence's "Love Saves the Day", etc.).

Most good bookshops like Blackwells or Foyles will have them. The latter in particular is a superb read. Highly recommended.