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“since it's mostly transcripts of his stand-up it gets a little repetitive but he was a fascinating thinker ”
nathan x wrote this review Tuesday, May 6 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Beautiful, outlandish and wild. There will always be a place in my heart for Bill Hicks.. Wonderful read”
Josh R wrote this review Wednesday, January 2 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“This book is a great effort to cherrypick some of Bill's more potent and poignant thoughts, but there was just so much to cover, even in a life cut so short..
Smaug wrote this review Sunday, December 16 2007. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
He was the greatest. Bill, we hardly knew ya. RIP.”
“He’s been called Lenny Bruce on steroids. Another of my favourite comedians. Needless to say, we both share the same view of the world. Or am I thinking of Postman Pat?”
theophobiac wrote this review Tuesday, August 7 2007. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Bill Hicks needs a compendium of his words, writings and thoughts, similar to Kafka's "Parables and Paradoxes," or the collections of the great rock critics of the 1970's (specifically Lester Bangs, Richard Meltzer & Nick Tosches). This is not that collection. Sure, it has the texts of all his commercially available recordings, as well as numerous interview transcripts, noteboook entries and correspondence from various parts of his life, and his jarring insight and furious zeal for enlightenment cuts through almost as well as it does on stage. But there are more typos, continuity errors, excess repetition of various bits and thoughts, and unfinished concepts that leave off without explanation than I've seen in any book in a long time.
chicobangs wrote this review Wednesday, December 27 2006. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
If someone was to hand this book to a real editor, someone who was a fan of Hicks' work, and have them clean it up, copyedit it, write an introductory paragraph or even a sentence or two to give some of the pieces a little context, and maybe rearrange them so the pieces flowed together a bit better, then this could become the only Bill Hicks volume you would ever need. Hell, I'll do it.
If you're familiar with his work and are looking for a reference volume, this will do the job, but hopefully they'll clean this up by the next printing. Hicks was too great, too influential, and too important a standup philosopher to deserve anything less.”
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