what is the story with Mick Middles?

I also felt that I should be reading it with a grain of salt. ack!

His Manics book is pretty, er, strange for lack of a better word. Middles rambles on for pages about things like the history of Wales, obsesses weirdly on certain aspects of his subjects, rarely quotes anyone directly, never provides sources and doesn't stick to any coherent chronological order. He also talks about the Fall a lot for no apparent reason. For all that, I actually found it pretty interesting. So yeah, read with a grain of sand, but

...to finish that sentence, read with a grain of salt, but he's not totally dismissible by any means.