JD/NO Books.....

I'm looking to buy a book or two to read out in the garden when the sun finally arrives here in Norway this summer.....

Amazon have a fair selection, but what do you fellow-minded Members recommend as decent reads?

Thanks in advance.

These threads pop up every so often, and i always seem to reply first.

Cant go wrong with the Middles Book, "From Joy Division to New Order." Although young Shug got Touching from a distance from HMV for four quid. Not sure if that offer is still on. Both very readable books though.

I tried to read Middles book (well, i didn't try very hard yet), but his attempts at colorful descriptions/ metaphors seem really excessive and annoying IMO. am I being unfair? should I give it more of a chance?

Middles book is full of inaccuracies, he doesn't even get Ian Curtis's death date right

And he does tend to use twenty words when one will do...

Touching is a must read really, Debbie Curtis may be out for the sympathy vote at times, but it seems a pretty honest account of what actually went on.

The two "History In Cuttings" books also make for a good read, even if a lot of Volume 2 is in Dutch!

...History In Cuttings Vol.2 mostly is written in English, some gig reviews and articles are written in Dutch, German and French...

...HIC is on of the best written books about JD/NO...

The Saviour

Originally posted by Old Blue And he does tend to use twenty words when one will do...

whatever you do don't read Nothing by Paul Morely. He takes 20 pages to say what 2 sentances would. i got so bored i started to skip pages, then eventually gave up.

Quite frankly 'Inside OLE2 by Craig Brockshmitt' was a far more rivitting read. (windows programmers of the mid 90s should understand that reference. if you're not, it was the most boring dry long winded book on programming ever. and that takes some doing)

Touching from a Distance is great. It does seem to be quite acurate and moving. The only thing that annoys me about it that Deborah Curtis seems to use explanation marks far to often!

I can confirm that HMV still have these at £3.99, at least both Manchester Market Street branches do anyway.

Originally posted by Mr Ben > Originally posted by Old Blue And he does tend to use twenty words when one will do...

whatever you do don't read Nothing by Paul Morely. He takes 20 pages to say what 2 sentances would. i got so bored i started to skip pages, then eventually gave up.

Quite frankly 'Inside OLE2 by Craig Brockshmitt' was a far more rivitting read. (windows programmers of the mid 90s should understand that reference. if you're not, it was the most boring dry long winded book on programming ever. and that takes some doing)

It can't be worse than ASP in 24 hours, it seems to dedicate 20 pages just on response.write

PHP is better anyway :p

Originally posted by Old Blue And he does tend to use twenty words when one will do...

it seems like Middles is trying to pad the word total to meet a required total length, or does he think he is being clever? you could literally easily edit out 33% from his writing and not lose anything because so much is completely unneccessary... its really fookin' annoying, so I gave up on reading Middles book.... does he always write that pretentious way?

Originally posted by Old Blue And he does tend to use twenty words when one will do...Touching is a must read really, Debbie Curtis may be out for the sympathy vote at times, but it seems a pretty honest account of what actually went on.The two "History In Cuttings" books also make for a good read, even if a lot of Volume 2 is in Dutch!

Have owned TOUCHING since it came out but STILL have not read it yet,Must get round to this soon.Cheers for the REVIEW OLD BLUE.

MAJOR is DOUBLE DELETING the new DOUBLE POSTING or have you just drunk too many Doubles?