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Fascinating details on the punk music scene in East Berlin prior to the fall of the Berlin Wall, and how the young men and women who built that movement aided in the downfall of the dictatorship in East Germany. The audiobook was good to get through the German phrases and unique names, but I think print might have been better, just for absorption of more details.

“Don‘t die in the waiting room of the future.”

❤️

“In the West, we tend to harbor smug, simplistic views of the old Soviet Bloc...But we rarely look in the mirror.”

Ahh, I love the smell of American hypocrisy first thing in the morning. 🤦🏻‍♀️

If, like me, you are hungry for a time you‘ll never know, read this. These teens had so much strength. Some agreed to be informants to save friends from more jail time & thus blacklisted themselves. Others wouldn‘t stop being who they are in public despite reoccurring arrests. And ultimately, they wouldn‘t shut up about how unjust the system was, writing songs calling out the corruption and building a community to overcome the oppression. So cool.

Excellent reference for a whole host of events otherwise only documented in German-language primary sources. Not going for 5 stars because occasionally the narrative voice wavered between a dispassionate relating of the events and a rock journalist's borderline-gonzo fuck-the-man tone. Made the book feel like it was split between two goals, so to speak. 4.5?

Current mood.

This book is worth it for the pictures alone. 😂😂😂

Fuck yes! I‘ve been waiting on this from Interlibrary loan! Die Mauer muß weg!

Walked around the Brooklyn Book Festival today and saw lots of book eye candy!!
#brooklynbookfestival

Aaaaaaaahhhhh book haul day includes Burning Down the Haus which is amazing and I'm so stoked to see it out in the world, plus Love Letters to Jane's World which I started thanks to Netgalley and loved, and a volume of Sailor Moon, which somehow I've never actually owned! Also this book is super shiny y'all, it's so lovely!!!! #books #bookhaul #newcomics #happythursday

Fascinating history of Eastern Germany‘s punk rock scene in the years leading up to the fall of the Berlin Wall

So exhausted after 10 hours at #BEA. I‘m always amazed by the way Workman designs our booth with the giant books on top. If you‘re here tomorrow, (or at #BookCon on Saturday), come say hello at booth 2007!