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There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. Not as easy a read as The Redneck Manifesto but it's entertaining. You'll be wondering how this guy made it thru childhood. Mostly an autobiographical history of Goad's life, mainly focusing on his relationship with now-deceased wife Debbie and his violent dance with a girlfriend which led to his two year incarceration. Along the way, Goad also lists various outside influences which he feels shaped his angry personality. He admits to making bad decisions, but also loudly states that others share the blame.
Some people will throw a fit and accuse Goad of dodging all responsibility. But, regardless of what you might think of his self-justification, the writing is good. As for the previous reviewer who reduced the writing to mere shock value, I disagree.
Aside from maybe the intro page to each Answer Me! He just has an aggressive writing style and a very sharp wit. Although a couple of Magnet's rants get repetitive, most of it is very gripping.
Take a chance, and buy a copy for yourself. I don't think there's anything out there quite like it. It is a heartwrenching account of infidelity,obsession, hatred and full-blown psychosis. As always he is brutally honest, and admits his part in spousal abuse and his flaws as a human being. You seldom get such honesty in mainstream authors anywhere else. There are no smoke and mirrors here. The book also covers Goad's childhood and latter-day incarceration. One person found this helpful.
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When I first read this book about 7 years ago my favorite-author allegiance changed from Tom Robbins to Jim Goad. You should buy this and all of his stuff. Jim Goad is a man I admire His social criticism is cutting, accurate and iconoclastic. But by his own admission, he is a severely screwed-up individual. This book is his paean to the pitch black comedy psychodrama of his life.
In a world where every loser rich boy wishes they were a street-wise badass, Goad is a street-wise badass For this reason, this is one of my favorite books of all time. This book succeeds because it gets the tone exactly right. Goad overturns every single rock in his past, but does so without trying to wring sympathy out of the reader. He talks about how his parents beat him, his homosexual dalliances when he was a teenager, and his marital infidelities, leading up to his ill-fated affair with Anne Ryan, the psychotic groupie who got him jailed.
But the remarkable thing is that he doesn't try to deflect blame or run from his past. Goad fesses up to his responsibility in these events with wit and vitriol. Like his other writing, this book is a breeze to read, as Goad rattles off sentences like a Satanic street preacher on meth. He has spent a career frequently priding himself on the disconnect between the sentimentality of his work and his personal life.
Sure, Merritt was never a Rockette, an alligator wrestler, or an ancient vampire, but his essence is splattered all over his storied and frequently excellent career. Since throwing in the kitchen sink with his first multi-disc epic, 69 Love Songs , he has never held onto an aesthetic for more than two albums straight, has let top-tier songs land on side projects, and has never attempted to alter his notoriously dour attitude in interviews if you sit through any of them, you will see his insight and good humor frequently crack through.
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Aside from being a brilliant wordsmith, he doubles as an arduous studio rat, obsessed with sound, genre study, and arrangement. While not a collection of 20 masterpieces although there are a few , there is nary a Merritt release that passes by without at least one of his best songs. Now in his 50s, he is still creating music that is surprising and affecting, in addition to managing ways to fold in weird sounds he discovers along the way.
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His career path is certainly long, but rarely boring. Compiling highlights from three plays Merritt scored for theater director Cheng Shi-Zheng, Showtunes is the only Merritt album on which every song would stick out like a sore thumb if you took every album on this list and shuffled them into one big playlist. It has some value, though, among Magnetic Fields fans. You can hear a lot of the delicate acoustic production Merritt would use on Realism , and the song itself could have fit nicely into the diverse fabric of 69 Love Songs.
Elsewhere, though, the album is littered with squirmy synth dirges and a bunch of throwaway interludes. Considering how great this album starts, sitting through its mostly barren tracklist is nothing if not frustrating. The sounds are softer, sparser, and more acoustic-based, and the influences dive further into the American songbook than, say, They Might Be Giants. So while not entirely 69 Love Songs: Like every Merritt album, there are great moments. These two alone are what pulls this one ahead of Eternal Youth , and they have also made me put this album on many times in the past hoping to find other values.
The fact is that every song on Realism sounds very different, but all of it could be described as folk for lack of any desire to articulate something more specific. Merritt writes lyrics and sings alongside Claudia Gonson, her first crack at lead vocals that would soon lead to some truly great turns on 69 Love Songs two years later. Of course, much like the 6ths, whose debut album came only months earlier, the Gothic Archies are more or less the Magnetic Fields in a Halloween costume, using the same arsenal of equipment but with a more ghoulish spin.
The album is barely long enough to include on this list, but it uses its time well. Cranking the microphone reverb, keeping the fretting high up on the bass, and dropping in some cheap haunted-house noise here and there, the album is equal parts homage and parody. But Love At The Bottom Of The Sea was no throwback; all of the synths used on the album were brand-new creations, some so new that they were purchased and put on the album the day they were put on the market.
The album opens with a brilliant one-two-three punch. Mar 20, Ivanna S. I read Answer Me! This autobiography was enlightening, honest, interesting and well-written - and made me really really sad. All the wrong people vilified Jim Goad when they should have been defending him for being the extreme that proved their points.
Shined a light on the worst part of this society. Jan 25, Anita Dalton rated it really liked it Shelves: Jim Goad is a man who did some questionable and, at times, violent things in his past, but his biography lays his life bare before the reader. You can read more of my review at http: His writing is at turns brilliant and childishly sarcastic, but never boring. If you envision an angry teenage boy from an abusive home who never mellowed but instead grew angrier with age, Goad is that but with a gift for the written word he uses to browbeat the reader into submission.
Mencken and the influence is unmistakable. Who the hell is Jim Goad? Goad also recounts the triple suicide of some young, British neo-nazi fans, which he describes with his own darkly descriptive flare. Jim begins an affair with a younger, deranged fan and fellow Zine writer named Anne. The affair continues as Debbie is diagnosed with cancer and for this affair Goad demonstrates genuine regret. Despite several violent arguments with Anne including a restraining order which Goad files against her, Goad continues to see the woman.
Like Icarus flying closer and closer to the sun, Goad pushes this toxic cycle too far. He uses Anne for sex one time too many and once again they fight, but this time Jim snaps and takes her on a violent ride, beating her to a bloody pulp in the process. Recounting this violent episode, Goad shows zero remorse and instead writes with an energized zeal about finally giving Anne back the violence she delivered to him sevenfold.
Of course, Ann calls the police and Jim is incarcerated for two years. Goad ends his prison sentence claiming that the experience traumatizes the convict and makes men into animals or institutionalized dependents, however he offers nothing as an alternative for felons which allows his bitterness to outshine what could have been a constructive critique of the prison system.
Which brings us to the modern day. These days Jim Goad writes a regular column for Taki Mag as well as books, he also survived his own bout with cancer, and more importantly, became a father. Aug 02, Andrew Arbow rated it it was amazing.
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I first learned of Jim Goad after I learned he was an accomplished writer who wrote for the same magazine I write for in Portland. This book is amazingly honest in it brutality and is written in a sense that its hard to argue with anything he says, even if its wrong. It's no wonder why his work is so polarizing. Jim says things that won't be said and things people don't want to hear. Everything is articulated in a valid sense even if it may or may not be correct. The book captured my feeling ab I first learned of Jim Goad after I learned he was an accomplished writer who wrote for the same magazine I write for in Portland.
The book captured my feeling about living in Portland and really feel that he brutally makes the reader empathize with what a pit his life was.
I've never met Jim Goad but I've met plenty of people who have A lot of people have said that in a personal sense he's actually really pleasant to be around. In fact my senior editor at my college newspaper dated him after he got out of prison and said he was the best boyfriend she ever had. Compared that to his career and there really is another layer of honesty that seem to be at a more logical sense to show how sincere he really is, be it BRUTAL honesty that I think lends itself to his integrity as a writer. This book has been one of the best books I've read in the past 3 years.
May 30, Nate rated it liked it. Oct 11, Tpeter rated it really liked it. Extremely entertaining book by a wonderful guy Jim Goad is an angry white male and makes no excuses about it. Dec 25, Shannon Barber rated it really liked it. Enjoyable if you don't have tender sensibilities. I enjoyed reading this book quite a bit, I'd enjoyed Jim Goad's writing prior to reading this book and it didn't disappoint. The Author lived in that zoo know as Portland.
I had hoped to learn more about the City and not just about the one oddball woman. Worth your time if you are interested in our prison system.