The article overlooks the best of all, Gun Club.

You make it sound like Wild at Heart was good and Jad Fair is bad.

I haven't seen the book, but one of the best things about the blog is the links to other sites with more information about the stuff that he is writing about.

I thought it was his weakest so far. It had his usual good writing, and some good characters (some of whom seem recycled) but it was very, very short on cool ideas, which is what I read Stephenson for in the first place. It seemed like there was something stewing there for a while—the terrorists would actually be…

Carrie, I adore you as a guitarist, as a music critic, as a comedian, and even as a backup singer, but I can't get past the vocals on this record. Sorry.