Stories We Could Tell by Tony Parsons (2006)
Read: June - July 2010
Now I wasn't a huge fan at all of Tony Parsons when I read a few of his last year that were passed onto us, so I guess you're wondering why I'm reading him again. Well in Dahab way back in April I think it may have been Scotty was caught short without a book to read. OK in Dahab you can just chill and no need to read, but we were about to get on the public bus home -a ride that takes at least 8 hours - and he needed something to entertain him. This was the pick of the two second-hand bookstores in Dahab as it was about music journalists and going to gigs in the 70's
I've picked it up now at the end of the school year to fill in the gap before getting to a new load of books we've ordered into the UK. I'm hoping to finish it before we fly back, and I don't, so then I hope to finish it in London before we fly to America, but I don't. I think I finish it after nearly 2 weeks in America, because once the holiday started we really didn't have time to read much as we'd flop straight into bed after busy, awesome, days.
I definitly enjoy this more than the other two books of his I read. It's written from the point of view of three guys who all work for a music magazine. Their antics getting to, into, and kicked out of gigs are entertaining and the scene that they work and live in is set very well in the mods and rockers. The three stories are woven together, then torn apart and finally collide towards the end. This narrative at times was difficult to follow, but as the book closed I could see how it had been cleverly written to tie the characters together.
