Advantages: Loud, experimental, totally cool Disadvantages: Not for the pop fan!
~~~A Personal History~~~
Sister is Sonic Youth's 5th album, but when it came out in 1987 it was the first of theirs that I had heard. 15 at the time, it blew me away. This is the album that fired me with a passion for music that has stayed with me to this day.
To my pubescent mind, Sonic Youth were the embodiment of cool, no one would or could ever criticise my musical taste - if they didn't like Sonic Youth, they should at least admire them, and if they didn't, well to me that just demonstrated their lack of appreciation of good music. There was a mutual respect between the band and other serious musicians (Pubic Enemy, for example - Chuck D guests on Kool Thing), and I sensed this would extend to their fans. As a Sonic Youth fan and as a 15 year old girl, I felt untouchable, all powerful. All this was crystallised at a gig ...
Advantages: Realistic, enjoyable, bittersweet. Disadvantages: Too short, some undeveloped characters, culture differences.
Written by Xiaolu Guo.
204 pages in paperback.
Written in first person.
Young Adult +
Can be bought new and used for £3+ on ebay.co.uk and new for £4.99 at amazon.co.uk.
After finding a copy of A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers in a nearby bookshop and being told it was a good read by others I decided to buy it, and then I discovered I'd left my wallet in my other coat.
A few months later after forgetting to come back to that bookshop and buying that book I discovered 20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth in my local library, naturally I picked it up so I could finally see how good of an author Xiaolu Guo was and see whether or not I should go look for the other books she has written.
I can tell you now that I am planning on looking for a copy of her other works, she's brilliant.
Fenfang has left the slow and boring ...
Advantages: very informative, great if your studying Disadvantages: the price
Youth and Crime
Youth and Crime is a book written by John Muncie who is a renowned professor of criminology and co-director of the International Centre for Comparative Criminological Research at the Open University.
The book itself details the many psychological, sociological and general statistics that connect youth and crime together. The book contains seven chapters with sub chapters within each main chapter, which I will detail below to give you an idea of how in depth the book really is.
The Chapters
Chapter One-Youth Crime: Representations, Discourses and Data.
This chapter details the threat of youth as such, about how the youth and the threat of youth and portrayed within the media and how crimes committed by youths have contributed to a moral panic of how youths are becoming more dangerous and in pursuit ...
