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by Joe Pernice (Author)
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  • Paperback: 102 pages
  • Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.; Widescreen Ver edition (1 Nov 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 082641494X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0826414946
  • Product Dimensions: 16 x 11.8 x 0.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 199,554 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Philadelphia Inquirer, November 2003

Dead-on depiction of how it feels when music articulates your pain with an elegance you could never hope to muster.


The Times, December 2003

It is beautifully written.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The best Smiths book _not_ about The Smiths, 28 April 2004
This book really is fantastic. It's part of an ongoing series of bookspublished by Continuum press, each about a specific album.
Whereas the other titles have been mostly _about_ the albums (analysis ofthe content, stores about the making of, etc.) Joe Pernice's book is anovella. In it, he recounts a semi-autobiographical tale of growing up ina working class suburb in the US, going to a Catholic School, feeling likean outsider, obsessing about girls, and falling in love with the titularSmiths record.
One reviewer here complained that the book wasn't about The Smiths at all.I think he missed the point. I'd have thought that the story recountedhere ... one of loneliness and alientation, would have been familiar to99% of Smiths fans. The book is beautifully written, witty, and capturesthe essence of everything The Smiths stood for.
(While you're at it, why not also buy "Yours, Mine & Ours" by JoePernice's band, The Pernice Brothers. It was easily the best album of 2003
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A short story inspired by one of the best albums ever...., 1 Mar 2004
By pez_75 "burning in vain" (bored at work...) - See all my reviews
...written, this is part of the thirty-three-and-a-third series by Joe Pernice. The author is a musician himself and I personally am a fan of his music (The Pernice Brothers being his most recent incarnation) and even moreso of the Smiths.

The story is a chapter in the life of a teenager, and his ongoing relationships around him, at the time when he was obsessed by this particular album. It is a well-written and perceptive book, and is well worth a read, regardless of whether you are a fan of the Smiths.

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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Inspired by (but definitely not about) the album, 19 Jun 2004
By Siriam (London United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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As stated in the last sentence of the book's backcover about the writer, "This is his first work of fiction" and so anyone wanting the more standard coverage for "books of the album" of how the original LP was written and recorded; it's reception at time of release, and the Smiths story before and after, will be inevitably disappointed.

Instead against a US Boston catholic school college setting, the writer covers his experiences in 1985 as a teenager where four friends die in a car crash and another one donates a cassette of "Meat is Murder" before they commit suicide. While the writer goes through the many emotions covered by the albums songs, of personal loneliness, initial romantic feelings and feeling alienated from his educational and social surroundings plus his family, the album simply provides the writer's musical backdrop to his story.

Apart from a few limited references there is little on the Smiths or individual songs and while it is fascinating to try and make connections between this US based story and a very English setting of the original LP songs (especially given Morrissey has since moved as an exile to Texas it seems) the book is ultimately a brave attempt in a unique series of books on classic albums that gives the writers free rein, to transport the emotions of the album to the impact they had on the lead character's life at that same time in 1985.

As such it is a brave attempt but as a fictional story I fear while an interesting read, is not one that I expect I will be reading again, whereas the LP is a firm favourite.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The best 33 1/3 - what a great little book!
I am not a fan of Joe Pernice's music needing to like the book too. I'm not a fan of the music. The book though really is excellent. Read more
Published on 21 Feb 2007 by Simon Turner

5.0 out of 5 stars My favourite 33 1/3 book so far...
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1.0 out of 5 stars NOT really about The Smiths.
This small book contains no pictures of the band. It is a story inspired by the album. I returned my copy.
Published on 6 Dec 2003

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