Black Coffee Blues (Rollins, Henry)
by Henry Rollins
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Author: Henry RollinsEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1997-08-01
ISBN: 1880985551
Number of pages: 120
Publisher: 2.13.61
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Book Review: Essential Rollins for the uninitiated and the true fan alike
Summary: 5 Stars
Black Coffee Blues is the first book in the Black Coffee trilogy, which now includes the installments "Do I Come Here Often?" and "Smile, You're Traveling". Black Coffee blues can be broken down into colections of essays, tour diaries and short thematic poetry and prose. Henry Rollins writes directly from the heart in an honest and stripped down fashion that immediadely mades the reader forget that this, apart from the tour diaries, is fiction. The first section of Black Coffee Blues is called 124 worlds and is a collection of 124 short insights into peoples lives. Surprisingly, the shortest insights, sometimes only a few lines long, provide the most stark and disturbingly horrific realities. Each "world" provides a new thought provoking reality, and the excellent use of third person naritive allows the stories to be told without resorting to uneccisary explaination or judgement. The second section, Black Coffee Blues is a collection of tour diaries written between 1989 and 1991. Henry Rollins destroys the misconseptions surrounding the glitz of fame and the music industry and allows a deeper insight into the effects of long touring schedules and crushing work loads. Henry talks frankly about the effects of isolation and loneliness while on the road along with the problems of exhustion and the constant movement from show to show. You can almost believe that Henry never intends for any of his tour journals to be read by other people, let alone be published. All of Henry's writing on the road is unbelievably honest and insatiably addictive. Black Coffee Blues drags you on a trip across Europe and lets you see the world in a way very few people could ever hope to achieve. The third section is a collection if longer essays which explore some of the themes identified in the tour diaries. These include loneliness - "invisible Woman Blues", Exhaustion -"Exhaustion Blues" depression - "Monster", and alienation - "I Know You". These essays provide a gateway into the mind and motivation behind Mr Rollins. The forth section is a collection of 61 dreams as recounted by Henry. Once again, Henry resists the temptation to spoil the writing by adding any uneccisry commentary or explaination. The dreams mearly are, and their interpretation is left to the reader. By the end of Black Coffee Blues you feel as if you have made a new best friend who you've accompanied on a great adventure. This book is fantastic as a travelling companion and is a constant source of inspiration and is always thought provoking. This book can be re-read a million times with the same enjoyment as the first as something new can always be taken from it. This book is an excellent travel companion which the reader should never be without on a long trip. Essential Rollins.
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