Just finished "Unknown Pleasures", Peter Hook's fantastic book about being in Joy Division. Really recommend it to anyone with more than a passing interest in the band. Hard work towards the end, as you might imagine, but before that it's genuinely funny in places and there is some fine, fine bitchiness towards Bernard Sumner that raises a few smiles. As a bit of a JD obsessive there are bits in this book that are almost revelatory; both albums are dissected song by song in separate chapters. Not for everyone, these bits, granted.
I rattled through it in two days, which I think was exactly the same for his book about The Hacienda and what a disaster that was. I like him as a writer. His book about New Order should be good when it comes out, I reckon. I find myself warming to him as I read his books - I always thought he was a bit of a nob when I used to go and see New Order regularly, even if I do love his bass playing. He comes across as very human in this one, particularly at the end when he really bares his soul about Curtis' suicide. One of the best books about music I've ever read, this.
