talking to girls about duran duran – One Young Man’s Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut by Rob Sheffield
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LANGUAGE
VIOLENCE
SEXUAL CONTENT
ADULT THEMES
(Available July 2010)
Author of the National Bestseller “Love is a Mix Tape”
Ratings Explanation
Language: This book is laced with nearly every profane word. Each word of profanity is used with grammatical variation – as a noun, verb and adjective.
Sexual Content: Teacher/Student Affair. References to a blow job, gorilla condoms, sex-cookies, raging hormones, masturbating, sex, gay sex, bi-sexual sex, and a friction boner from wrestling.
Violence: The ice cream wholesaler says he will break Rob’s ankles if he ever hears of him selling anything other than ice cream out of the truck.
Adult Content: Rock Star Lifestyle. Drugs. Alcohol. Sexual Promiscuity. Adultery. Bisexuality. Homosexuality.
Summary
This is Rob Sheffield’s memoir.
“Rob Sheffield has been a music journalist for more than twenty years. He is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone, where he writes about music, TV, pop culture, and regularly appears on MTV and VH1. He is the author of the New York Times Bestseller Love is a Mix Tape, which has been translated into French, German, Swedish, Italian, Japanese, Russian, and other languages he cannot read. He lives in Brooklyn New York.”
Each chapter is the title of a song. Sheffield writes of his progression and transformation from pre-pubescent male to manhood via weaving each artist/song’s significance with his personal experience.
The Go-Gos, “Our Lips Are Sealed”
David Bowie, “Ashes to Ashes”
Ray Parker Jr., “A Woman Needs Love”
The Rolling Stones, “She’s So Cold”
The Human League, “Love Action”
O.M.D., “Enola Gay”
Culture Club, “I’ll Tumble 4 Ya”
Hall & Oates, “Maneater”
Roxy Music, “More Than This”
Bonnie Taylor, “Total Eclipse of the Heart”
Haysi Fantayzee, “Shiny Shiny”
A Flock of Seagulls, “Space Age Love Song”
Chaka Khan, “I Feel For You”
Prince, “Purple Rain”
Paul McCartney, “No More Lonely Nights”
Madonna, “Crazy For You”
The Replacements, “Left of the Dial”
The Smiths, “Ask”
The Psychedelic Furs, “Pretty in Pink”
Lita Ford, “Kiss Me Deadly”
Tone Loc, “Funky Cold Medina”
New Kids On The Block, “Hangin’ Tough”
Big Daddy Kane, “Ain’t No Half Steppin'”
L”Trimm, “Cars With the Boom”
Duran Duran, “All She Wants Is”
Admittedly, I was sucked in by the hilarious title. (Yes, judging a book by the cover…I am aware.) This book is entertaining, and, I do love Duran Duran. I enjoyed reading Sheffield’s navigation of how to communicate with females. If you choose to read, “Proceed With Caution”, this is loaded with language and sexual references.
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