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The Armageddon Rag Paperback – 14 Feb 2013

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  • Paperback: 384 pages
  • Publisher: Gollancz (14 Feb. 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0575129557
  • ISBN-13: 978-0575129559
  • Product Dimensions: 13.2 x 2.5 x 19.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (34 customer reviews)
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"The wilder aspects of the 60s--the frenzied idealism, the cultism, the orgiastic rock music--roar back to life in this hallucinatory story by a master of chilling suspense." --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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Magic, music, drugs and rock'n'roll in an early novel from George R. R. Martin, author of A GAME OF THRONES.

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5.0 out of 5 starsTruly magical writing sent to us by a very gifted man
By Alexianna on 13 Jan. 2017
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George RR Martin is one of the greatest authors ever. His writing quickly pulls you into the story, gets you caring about the characters, who are all so real, more real than some fiction characters. They are believable, imperfect people. You are quickly lost in the beauty of the musical world and the cleverly written story which transcends time and materialistic things. It leaves you with a yearning for times gone by with all their innocent beauty and ugly violence, times that existed before I was even born and know little of. The finale is so beautiful and glorious and satisfactory. You are drawn right there into the concert, which does not appear fixed in time, but floats between decades. The only thing that matters, once you have began reading this book is finding out what happens at the end. This is my first time opening a Martin book, but I am now a fan.
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4.0 out of 5 starsA trip back to the sixties and forward to the end of the world.
By Jason Mills VINE VOICE on 27 Mar. 2011
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The Nazgûl were the rock band that had it all, but their career was extinguished at its peak when their singer was shot dead at a concert in '71. Now it's 10 years later and their erstwhile promoter has been ritually murdered in a manner that connects with that earlier killing. Sandy Blair, a failing novelist and ex-journalist, finds himself embarking on a quest to get to the bottom of the murder.

The journey takes him across America, interviewing the remaining members of the Nazgûl and meeting up with his old friends from the '60s. In everyone he meets he sees the disillusion and dissolution of the '60s dream, and he struggles to reconcile his life now with the idealism of his youth. Meanwhile he discovers that Edan Morse, suspected years ago of social agitation that verged on terrorism, is trying to engineer an unlikely reunion of the Nazgûl, for some dark and disturbing purpose.

The novel is a requiem for the 1960s: its hopes, its liberation, its friendships and most of all its music. I found myself wishing I was at the concerts Martin so thrillingly describes, and that I could go on amazon and order the Nazgûl's albums! But a bigger ambition than nostalgia becomes apparent, as the book edges into supernatural territory and Sandy Blair's fight to maintain his ideals becomes crucial to the future of the world.

Like everything George R R Martin writes, the novel is smoothly engineered, peopled with richly sympathetic characters, deeply felt and boldly imagined. A powerful and satisfying read.
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3.0 out of 5 starsSilly
By B. Burgess on 26 Sept. 2014
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I was initially intrigued by the idea of a rock and roll murder mystery. But this is ultimately a very silly book. There are far too many dream sequences (yawn) and I found it impossible to believe in a story if which legions of revolutionary people would follow such a stupid, rubbish band.
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1.0 out of 5 starsArmageddon Drag!
By Dean on 24 Nov. 2015
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As a fan of George RR Martin’s ‘A Song of Fire and Ice’ series, and of music and general popular culture from the 1960s, I was very eager to read this book.

But I was bitterly disappointed.

The story concept is a good one. In early 1980s America, an ageing rock band, once popular but now well past-their-prime, reforms during the midst of a murder investigation of their former manager. A music journalist, and old associate of the band, begins to investigate the murder which leads him to reluctantly work alongside the very people he chiefly suspects as being responsible. A murder mystery layered with pop rock references, and incorporating elements of fantasy and mild horror should go together like Simon & Garfunkel and a Greenwich Village folk festival.

But it doesn't.

The story struggles to form a coherent piece of fiction. In a relatively small number of chapters, the story arc (which starts off slow and measured), beings to progress at a rapid rate. The protagonist, who isn’t particularly likeable and spends a good number of chapters detailing his somewhat exaggerated and repetitive visions caused me to lose interest in him. He also frequently benefits from a lot of good fortune and unrealistic favouritism from the books other characters which always places him in very convenient situations just as the story needs to progress from one phase to next. I continued reading the book believing that the story would unravel to something of epic proportions (this is George RR Martin after all) but the actual revelation of the murderer is such a let-down and the ending is just a massive anti-climax.

I struggled with it.
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5.0 out of 5 starsFantasy, Horror and Rock Mix Together for the Greatest Gig on Earth!
By A. Whitehead TOP 500 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on 3 Sept. 2007
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Sandy Blair is a former rock journalist turned novelist whose latest project isn't turning out as well as it should. However, when the former manger of one the most vital rock bands of the 1960s - the Nazgûl - is murdered in a satanic ritual, Sandy finds himself drawn into an investigation that leads him back to his roots and to some unsettling home truths. Meanwhile, an engimatic promoter is determined to reform the Nazgûl for a reunion tour - difficult since their lead singer was shot dead a decade earlier - that will have a startling outcome.

Like the opening volume of A Song of Ice and Fire and Fevre Dream, The Armageddon Rag (1983) is only superficially a genre story. The SF&F trappings don't kick in until very late in the day (actually far later than either of the first two works; nearly three-quarters of the book go by before any SF or horror elements creep in at all), and once more the focus is squarely on the fascinating characters GRRM creates. There is more of a hint of nostalgia here though, as GRRM also grapples with the death of the ideology of the 1960s and 1970s amidst the rise of ultra-capitalism in the 1980s.

The book thrives on fascinating details: the carefully thought-out Nazgûl album covers, the songs, the setlists. Creating a fictional band and making them feel 'real' is an incredibly difficult task, arguably only successfully achieved in parody (Spinal Tap being the obvious example), but GRRM pulls it off here. Knowing that 'The Armageddon/Resurrection Rag' and 'Ragin' don't actually exist doesn't stop the reader wanting to go and download them from iTunes.Read more ›
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rea .sonable story , a bit long winded

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