Glenn amatissimo egrave; un libro adatto a tutte le etagrave;; agli amanti degli animali e a chi li teme ma vuole superare le proprie fobie. Biografia; romanzo e poesia; letteratura colta e popolare; si sovrappongono alla luce di una rinnovata sensibilitagrave;. Percheacute; la storia di Glenn - cane vecchio e malato; che non sperava piugrave; di avere una famiglia - egrave; la storia di due anime affini che si trovano e affrontano insieme; con nuovo slancio; le difficoltagrave; che la vita presenta loro quotidianamente. Un taglio divertente e una prospettiva ottimistica prevalgono; malgrado la presenza di non pochi picchi drammatici; e ci fanno subito capire che non ci troviamo di fronte al solito libro ldquo;caninordquo;.Il libro ha ispirato il Premio Letterario Lord Glenn ed egrave; stato inserito in un ampio progetto culturale.Lrsquo;autrice sta scrivendo il Ciclo di Glenn; con lrsquo;augurio che possa contribuire a cambiare la mentalitagrave; di molta gente; per salvare le creature che non hanno voce; ritrovando se stessi.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful. A sociology breakdown of the album; track by trackBy Son of Flintstone MunchausenAn upper division undergraduate (or middling graduate level?) term paper run amuck. Two stars for the content; but its a five star book for the over-the-top style putting over the joke.This is one of those books; beautifully; gorgeously; at great and stylistic depth; that argues for artsy high-falutin social "meaning" in a pretentious kiddie rock record. In short; the author has written an elaborate joke in the vernacular of 70s teenage ideas of "great art;" and he has a blast establishing it (see the introduction; page 4; "that launched a thousand keggers;..." and you catch onto it) as a writing exercise.The method that Erik Davis takes is a simple method of telling an English Lit term paper; albeit polished; inflated; methodically built and argued; blown to gargantuan proportions: he methodically and in order retells the album tracks; interpreting them with a steam shovel helping each time as poetic interpretation. If youre looking for an ironic (like Machiavelli; you dont quite know if hes serious or pulling your leg) justification that this album is a great poetic statement; a study of meaning of life questions; an IMPORTANT art; this book is a loo loo of the first magnitude. If youre looking for the nuts-and-bolts about its recording/commercial background; nope you wont get it here. This book is both an elaborate joke about and for the bands disciples who take this ART (album as sacred; beyond "its a nice record;" religious icon) very seriously. In short; this book is about legend.Well; I (record junkie) only recently paid any serious attention to Led Zeppelins now old catalog; buying the first five albums because they are important; as part of the 60s audio soundtrack. Like picking up the works of Glenn Miller for a 40s flavor; or Pat Boone for the 50s; Im not a fan; er; devotee of rock gods; but Led Zeppelin; pre-disco Stones; the Beatles; Jefferson Airplane; and the Doors are the good dominant flavors of the period/genre. And they are part of the ground zero of the backward masking hoax; record burning goblin preachers casting Christian spells as proven fact; spooking beehived-doo-ed mothers to righteous panic in cigarette ash homes to fits of vinyl breaking and pinup shredding; scaring stereo junkies of my generation. Olivia Newton-John mightve been trying to seduce us to lesbian exercise rhapsodies; but Zeppelin; Judas Priest; and Styx were in charge of ferrying the dead when our albums played. I found what I was curious about; beginning page 126; Daviss; well; rather truncated explanations about "Stairway to Heaven;" which I unfortunately found lacking in this book. He does note that the hub-bub more or less dates back only as far as maybe mid-81; though he ascribes it to Michael Mills (more or less Battle Creek; Michigan); which I think is a dead end side alley. Since the book is written WELL after 1980; the backmasking treatment here is from long told tales.(Backward masking seems to have been invented/publicized out of Texas in mid-81 ("Satans Attack"); picked up and amplified up to Denver; then migrated to Southern California; where it blew up late April; 1982; and put to footnote print "fact" out of the Denver area in 1982 for endless distorted retelling; I think the catalyst for the affair was the introduction of built-in cassette recorders in cheap shelf record changers/AM-FM radio/tape decks replacing 8-track player/recorders. Anyone with a cheap record player and a $2.00 ferrous oxide cassette could test for satan secret messages. You could finally cue an Lp and make a tape easy and on-the-cheap in semi-hi fi; using your fingers to spin/grind records backwards with a ceramic cartridge $7 "diamond" split 78/45-Lp needle on a plastic free-spinning turntable and the tape punched "play-record." An out-of-the-box and plug-in-the-wall shelf stereo set cost about $150 bucks at Sears; Monkey Wards; or Radio Shack; it looked better than it sounded. Serious record addicts built up component stereos that started at $400; not including a tape deck.)0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Five StarsBy CustomerGreat0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. I thought the story of Percy and the origin of the songs was good. I enjoyed the line by line breakdown of ...By JimWe start with the origin of recorded music; then the cover art; then mysticism of the songs. The background of the runes just went too long for me. I thought the story of Percy and the origin of the songs was good. I enjoyed the line by line breakdown of Stairway. The price was too high for this book though.