The current featured contributor at
Writers Read: Ian Christe, author of
Sound of the Beast: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal and
Everybody Wants Some: The Van Halen Saga.
Part of his entry:
Bill Landis' Sleazoid Express is a perennial favorite, so is Otto Bettman's The Good Old Days--They Were Terrible! Sleazoid is a guide to exploitation films that brilliantly places them in the milieu of early-80s Times Square. Bettman founded probably the world's largest historical photo archive, but this book is a cold jolt of water to nostalgia dreamers; it's exactly what the title says it is, and it's hilarious! I haven't read current #1 bestseller Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World yet, but it was co-written by the editor of Sound of the Beast, so anything's possible.[read on]
Learn more about Ian Christe and his work at
his MySpace page,
blog,
the official The Sound of the Beast website, and
the Bazillion Points website.
Iain Ellis called Christe's
The Sound of the Beast "an incredibly comprehensive historical survey (and analysis) of heavy metal from Black Sabbath to the present."
Listen to his "
Bloody Roots" radio show on Sirius Satellite Radio.
Writers Read: Ian Christe.
--Marshal Zeringue
Learn more about Ian Christe and his work at his MySpace page, blog, the official The Sound of the Beast website, and the Bazillion Points website.
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