Stories We Could Tell - Tony Parsons

"Stories We Could Tell" details a few nights of three youths who work at a music magazine in London. The three boys in their teens go through the night and each come out the other side with a little bit more wisdom and a whole lot less drugs in their pockets. The book is probably one of the weakest books I've read because the plot line doesn't match the age of the characters and the characters are boring and predictable. For instance, a newspaper editor wouldn't likely send a 15 year old boy to go out and interview John Lennon. This happens in the book. However, there are some interesting notes about the era that the characters ...  Read the complete review

I got this book based upon a review I read on this site and I found it to be an enjoyable read. The main character Terry works for a trendy music magazine which employs mainly young writers, Terry is a punk and writes about the music of that era, set over a single twenty foour hour period Terry is meeting the legenday Dag Wood at a club after writing an article about him however Dag is a woaniser and drug addict who is intent on stealing Terry photographer girlfriend. Meanwhile two other reporters on the magazine, Ray and Leon are on very different missions, Ray must get an interview with John Lennon to keep his job while Leon is attempting to get to a gig ...  Read the complete review

I was a bit young to partake in the summer of hate, the whole punk thing came too early for me and my friends, I did catch up a couple of years later and my mate Selwyn (not his real name he looked like the TV character Selwyn Froggat) had a Mohican while I settled for a pair of bondage trousers and a ripped t-shirt. By then the whole punk thing had become main stream and commercialised, who would have thought just over thirty years later and one of the svengali of the time would be on TV advertising butter dressed like Chris Eubanks illegitimate half brother. This piece of fiction from Tony Parsons attempts to recreate the whole punk vibe in an entertaining ...  Read the complete review