Husker Du book

http://www.amazon.com/Husker-Du-Noise-Pop-Pioneers-Launched/product-reviews/0760335044/ref=cm_cr_dp_all_helpful?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1&sortBy=bySubmissionDateDescending

Anybody read this?
Any good?
Appears to have beaten Mould's off the press? I am assuming that the latter remains scheduled?

Really want to read some more reviews before I invest time into it. Tired of reading "When I was in 8th grade and heard Zen Arcade for the first time..." memoirs.

Just picked it up this week after skimming a few pages here/there and stumbled on Greg Norton's take of the business-side fallout of the breakup. Those couple paragraphs made it seem worthwhile (plus it was 40% off at the Michigan Ave. Borders going-out-of-biz sale). In the intro, the author specifically says he did not want to write a my-mind-was-blown-in-8th-grade-type book and that Mould did not participate b/c he was working on his own. Will update as I get into it.

Ha, I picked up this exact book at the same Michigan Ave. closing sale but put it back because I was already spending way too much.

Uh oh...there's a couple of other books there that I've got my eye on. I better stash them in the home improvement section or something. You don't happen to work at Northwestern, do you?

No, I don't. I probably won't be back in that area any time soon, so your books are probably safe.

I'm just about done and...it's alright, I guess. Fine enough, but pretty underwhelming. Now I'm surprisingly looking forward to Mould's book, though Grant Hart probably deserves better than this as his side. It's heavier on the pre-Flip Your Wig era. The part I referenced above was about the only really interesting part for me and it was only a few paragraphs. Hart refers to Mould's ego in a few places and I got the sense that the author was trying to remain relatively neutral, since Mould wasn't contributing/there to defend himself.

Regardless, there wasn't enough detail and it's poorly edited -- e.g. a series of paragraphs appears twice, he repeats himself in other ways throughout, the quotes are unnecessarily verbatim and Norton is once referred to as "Horton".

^ OTM. Funny how in the afterward, he mentions going up against a deadline.

He says as much from the beginning that he was going to talk more about the music and its influence, but there really was a lack of detail to the relationships between the bandmembers. There is a bit where Hart says he was forced by Mould to make a decision between a piano part on "Books About UFOs" and a slide guitar part on "Girl Who LIves on Heaven Hill" because it was just a given that Mould wasn't going to allow both on New Day Rising. And, between that and all the other "Bob was a bully" stuff, I just never got a feel for why that was allowed.

There are more details in the Our Band Could Be Your Life chapter, like the methadone leaking out in the sink before the final show, and even more from Hart in an Onion A/V interview from 2000. And a bunch of other nit-picky stuff, like some other facts that were a bit off and weird editorializing. I enjoyed reading it because of the subject matter and I could tell that the author's heart was way into it, but I kinda wish I had checked it out from the library.

I am in the middle of it and enjoying it. I've only ever been a fan from a distance so it's pretty much all new to me.
The editorial mistakes are pretty odd, though, and the straight repetition of chunks of text seems real clunky.
The first time a certain legendary zine gets mentioned it is called Young Flesh :-/