Talking To Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man's Quest For True Love And A Cooler Haircut (2010) - Plot & Excerpts
Hilarious, entertaining, even suspenseful at times. It helps to be somewhere around 40+ (yes, I'm older than that), and have 80s (and some 90s) music mean something to you. Helps even more to be a music fan. But even without that, Sheffield's stories of "coming of age," and of his family, are more universal, so this could be engaging for just about anyone. Whether you think Duran Duran are fops, or if you worship them, you'll enjoy the DD references and will be hungry for more...like the...you-know-what. His writing is funnier than that reference - I'm just a poser. Rob Sheffield says the only two things worth obsessing over are music and girls. In this book he traces his dual obsession back to its roots. And I don't know of anybody who writes as engagingly on both of these subjects as Rob Sheffield. I'm about ten years older than him so I was obsessed with 70s bands not the 80s one that Rob loves. I honestly think I only know one Duran Duran song. But it doesn't matter; the feelings are universal. This book is worth the price just to watch Sheffield try to figure out Paul McCartney. "By the time he was 22, he knew for a fact that no whim would ever be refused him, whether it was sex, drugs, cars, gurus. Paul chose to be a husband. The Stones suggested that if you dabble in decadence, you could turn into a devil-worshipping junkie. Paul McCartney suggested that if you mess around with girl worship, you could turn into a husband. So Paul was a lot scarier."
What do You think about Talking To Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man's Quest For True Love And A Cooler Haircut (2010)?
A fun summertime read. Equal parts memoir and 80's pop culture primer. Can't recommend this enough.
—Ryuki
I feel like I was friends with Rob in high school. This one will bring you back to the 80's.
—ElJ
