Nine Inch Nails by Martin Huxley Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Nine Inch Nails
Book Review: Definitely Buy This 5 Stars
This is a definite buy for any NIN fan. After reading this book, you will definitely have a new outlook on Trent and NIN. Although I try not to believe everything I read or hear unless it comes from Trent's mouth. Everything in this book sounds true to the best of my knowledge, and believe me I've done my homework. Trent is a very non-public person, you will appreciate learning more information about him, his background, the way he thinks, his music and the coming together of Nine Inch Nails. You will be impressed by this book.........go buy it! Trent...your in *A Warm Place* in my heart!Book Review: Even the most dedicated NIN fan will learn something new.
Summary: 5 Stars
Since there a very few books about NIN, this book is perfect for any NIN fan. I enjoyed learning some interesting things about Trent's early life and the secret to his songs. I believe that even the most dedicated fan will learn something new.Book Review: For hardcore fans only (I think)
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a pretty good lookout on stuff on NIN. If you want to collect data on artists or want to know some on Trent Reznor, this is the exact place to go. There is the Maximum Nine Inch Nails book, but it is kind of a ripoff of this book. However, if you don't already own this, check that one out. BUt the only added part is a more updated TDS-era section. This is mainly on magazine interviews (How can you know Trent said it if you didn't see him say it?) and some stuff on people like Steve Gottlieb of TVT who he had a problem with (sort of) on doing his work there. Many of the quotes are from stuff like ROllingStone and Request magazines, but it didn't matter too much to me. However, if Manson has made an autobiography, it would be cool to see a book on NIN. It would be real cool. Because Trent and him actually know each other well and it would be some more.SO if you are a casual fan not too much into the music-type stuff, then dont buy this. If you're an NIN fan, why haven't you picked this or the Dan Winter book?
Book Review: For those who know the music but want to know the man.
Summary: 4 Stars
I'm a huge fan and have all the major albums plus a few and thought I knew alot about Nine Inch Nails. Then I read "Self Destruct" and i realized I didn't know half of what there was. The info I gained from reading the book made me appreciate Trent Reznor and his music even more. The book is also great for people who have not yet been introduced to the band and want to learn more. It's great reading- fast paced and even funny in some parts.Book Review: Good summary of NIN
Summary: 4 Stars
I've always been a pretty big fan of Nine Inch Nails, as Trent Reznor is one of the few people with an actual musical vision or views worth listening to. While the book skips most of Reznor's adolescent life and teen-years, unlike the later released "The Long Hard Road Out Of Hell" by label-mate and fellow shock-rocker Marilyn Manson, the book does a better job of telling Trent's story of how he evolved into the music industry and how his life turned into using the studio itself as an instrument. While Manson's autobiography was pleasing in it's disturbing details of the lead singers troubled youth, "Nine Inch Nails" is better off leaving such details out, as Trent has always really wanted things to be about the music and not a bunch of out-played "my parents hate me, I was abused" drivel that would probably be in any book written by a member of KoRn or similar bands.Instead Martin Huxley decides to focus more on Trent's musical career prior to Nine Inch Nails, with the various successes and failures which filled his life in the musical world, also discussing the making of all the albums up to "The Downward Spiral", the stress of touring and writing an album, and Trent's fallout with one-time bandmate Richard Patrick of Filter.
Piecing together pieces of articles and interviews, along with his own views on Nine Inch Nails' honest and disturbing message, Martin Huxley does a good job of compiling some of the best information on one of the best industrial artists in history (even though Trent prefers not to be called "industrial"). After all, genres can be real limitations. Pick this up whether you're a hardcore fan of NIN or not. Either way it's well-written and interesting and you'll learn something about the band that you didn't know before.