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| From | rob@splitsville.com |
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| Date | Wed, 07 Feb 2007 17:52:25 -0500 |
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I read 'Moon' a few years ago and loved it all the way through. Tough to look away from a train wreck. Lots of foolish hedonism, but that's what he was all about, sadly.
I think Fletcher offered some proof (or a hypothesis, anyway) that Moon was basically an undiagnosed sufferer of bi-polar disorder. Poor bastard. Just another waste.
What I enjoyed the most were the quotes from people like Peter Cook, brilliant British comedians, who said that in terms of timing, quickness of mind and true humor (particularly when dropping an insulting Witticism), Moon was there equal. Watch Kids Are Alright and you can see that.
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>AT Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 12:25:28 Christopher
>wrote:
>
>>I don't think anyone has mentioned "Moon" by Tony
>Fletcher. Hilarious,
>>but tragically sad. Even if a fraction of the
>Keith Moon stories are
>>true, it's well worth reading.
>>
>>As is "Shakey" about Neil Young. But not funny
>like Moon. But just as
>>interesting.
>
>My only complaint about the Moon book is that
>Fletcher's hyperbole
>concerning Moon's excessive behaviour was always
>anti-climactic when you
>realized that for every line that ended with "Moon
>was taking more drugs and
>drinking than ever before" was followed by a line
>that read "...and Moon was
>taking more drugs and drinking more than ever
>before."
>
>Moon's life of misbehaving peaked about 1/3 of the
>way through the
>book....so chapter after chapter follows of the
>same old same old and
>there's no true climax leading to Moon's
>demise...it's rather a dull wimper
>cause Fletcher blows the hedonistic wad so early in
>the story. I realize
>it's Moon's story and it played out that way, but
>it would have been just as
>easy to leave out 150 pages and still get the same
>overall impression...that
>Moon was a fucked up timebomb.
>
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