“A pop-music fairy tale linking the Beatles to Bruno Bettelheim.” — The Village Voice

“In the telling of Ray’s story, Lewis Shiner reflects the mythic nature of the music from a bygone era and yet, at the same time, he reminds us that we are creating our own myths with the music we listen to every day of our lives. “ — blogger J.P.

“Luminous…finally, a novel that understands rock and roll!” — Jon Pareles, The Village Voice Literary Supplement

“My personal favourite is Great Jones Street about the reclusive rock star and the hack writer who lives in the same building. Years he’s been at it. Success still elusive. And he keeps saying: ‘Fame. It won’t happen. But if it did. But it won’t. But if it did, but it won’t. But if it did. But it won’t.’ Class.” — blogger Adrien in a comment on LarvatusProdeo.net

“Hornby’s amazingly accomplished debut should definitely appeal to music fans (and snobs), but it’s his literate, painfully honest riffs on romantic humiliation and heartbreak that make the book so special.” — Booklist

“I found myself connecting with Rob’s business, with his slowly failing shop, and his attempts (admittedly not very dedicated) to get business through the door.However, persistence is all, and this is what Rob discovers for himself at the end of the book.” — blogger Jane

“This cheeky first novel by a Dublin native, punctuated with Irish obscenities and quotes from soul classics, informed by righteous working-class anger and youthful alienation, offers the entertaining and insightful chronicle of The Commitments’ rise and inevitable fall.” — Publisher’s Weekly

“[I]t provides a lot of entertainment and flow for an enjoyable read. If you’re a music lover, I’d recommend it wholeheartedly.” — blogger foibles_fables

“Ellison’s players are as finely crafted as ever. They are flawed creatures, some of them beyond redemption, some of them hoping to be more than the sum of their sins, but each of them believable and, in the case of Stag Preston, frighteningly intriguing.” — Dark Horse reviews

“[The Armageddon Rag] It highlights what was cool and significant in the sixties to show us why there are people who miss it so much they’ll do anything to get it back…” — BoingBoing.net

“It’s about the stage of life that very rarely gets written about, not the transition from youth to adult but the transition from young, idealistic, passionate adult to middle age and acceptance of one’s limitations.” — blogger Liz

“[A]n engrossing, non-stop excursion into a believable vision of Hell.” — Publisher’s Weekly

“Radio Free Albemuth is easily one of Dick’s most thought-provoking and provocative books. As a novel that includes many of Dick’s personal experiences, and Dick himself as a major character, the story takes on a strange, surreal quality that invades our reality and toys with our perception of the book itself – as fiction or as an allegory of actual events in Dick’s life.” — blogger Keith at Nut in the Shell

“[T]he pervasive passion for music [provides] the novel with a steady heat.” — Kirkus Reviews

“…the novel catches very honestly the unique flavor of a black musician’s life, a kind of melancholy swan song.” — Publisher’s Weekly

“Peter Guralnick is my favorite music writer.” — blogger awmercy

“Lazar has created a powerful, infernal prism through which to view the potent, still-rippling contradictions of the late ’60s.” — Los Angeles Times Book Review

“Lazar writes extremely well and provides a fascinating take on the end of the optimism of the hippie era, as well as providing deft fly on the wall style imaginings of the birth of the Stones and the death of Brian Jones…” — blogger Chris