Mick Farren As An Author

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I've only read bits & pieces here and there in anthologies, but he seems pretty consistently good. "A Limey At Large In Music City USA", his 1976 NME piece on Nashville, is really great. Anybody read the autobiography yet?

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Sunday, 22 February 2004 19:27 (twenty-two years ago)

i love the stuff he writes for Ugly Things. I'd love to read the autobiography.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 22 February 2004 19:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I started reading Jim Morrison in the Afterlife, but I couldn't get into it.

― otto, Sunday, 22 February 2004 19:35 (twenty-two years ago)

In the intro to the Nashville piece he complains that he wanted to do a real Fear & Loathing thing with it but it got edited down, but that seems OK by me - there's a bit of "oh i'm all the hungover in the motel room watching American TV" stuff in it, but the best parts are the interviews with Lynn "Rose Garden" Anderson & Dolly Parton. You also have to wade through him rambling about waitresses' tits and stuff, but it's not overpoweringly "gonzo" or whatever. Nice work, NME editor of 1976!

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Sunday, 22 February 2004 19:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I read the autobiography ('Give the anarchist a cigarette'). I think I said something about it somewhere on ILE or ILM. It's a great read. He's posted on ILM before..

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 22 February 2004 20:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Did he write _A Time For Feasting_?

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Sunday, 22 February 2004 20:27 (twenty-two years ago)

My Mick Farren thread

His post to ILE!

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 22 February 2004 20:34 (twenty-two years ago)

He did write it! It was good, esp. for a pulpy vampire novel.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Sunday, 22 February 2004 21:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Farren wrote "The Black Leather Jacket," an extended essay on the subject. With the photos and art-house "leatherette" jacket, it was
a decent book.

Years ago, he wrote a column for the departed LA Reader. It was entertaining and cranky in a manner that's hardly ever seen in LA pubs.

― George Smith, Sunday, 22 February 2004 21:49 (twenty-two years ago)

no way! that aol email address on the other thread: I added it as my buddy and guess who just signed on! mick farren is my buddy!

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 23 February 2004 02:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Mick Farren's books are alot of fun. If you like Philip K. Dick or Robert Anton Wilson, you probably will like Farren's SF books. His books get twisted and druggy like some of Dick and Wilson's work and there is a sense of humor in each novel.

"The Feelies" is the best one of the three I have read. The parts about the reality show are very on the mark. The working stiffs in the cooler are also quite funny., It would be a great book for someone to make into a movie as it wouldn't have to be a huge budget to work.

"Necrom" is a fun read. A drugged out rock star ends up in the middle of some war between demons, voodoo assassins, and all sorts of paranoid freaks. There are some really funny parts.

"The Long Orbit" has a similar feel. The main character is a Sam Spade/Bogart wannabe who ends up trying to help this drugged out corporate king's daughter and ends up in a battle on a ghetto space station. There are a lot of laughs about these gothy and corporate types that are chasing after him. There is a funny scene at a strange sex/truck stop that is quite good.

I've got the DNA Cowboys triology reprint, but haven't yet gave it a read.

― earlnash, Monday, 23 February 2004 02:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Cozen you are to stop stalking aged music journalists.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 23 February 2004 02:59 (twenty-two years ago)

twenty-one years pass...

I really want to find my copy of the DNA Cowboys and give it another read. There is a section in the second novel where they go through a horrible wasteland into the city where the rich live that has been on my mind quite a bit lately.

― earlnash, Saturday, 22 March 2025 03:16 (one year ago)

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