{"id":1034,"date":"2016-09-11T19:22:20","date_gmt":"2016-09-11T19:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/?p=1034"},"modified":"2016-09-11T19:22:20","modified_gmt":"2016-09-11T19:22:20","slug":"book-review-henry-glenn-forever-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/book-review-henry-glenn-forever-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Henry & Glenn Forever & Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Dylan's<\/a>We ask all of our interns to choose a book and review it for our blog. Usually, when tasked with this assignment, they head downstairs to the warehouse and deliberate for a half hour. Sometimes it takes them a few days to choose. Not Dylan. He immediately knew. Here’s his review, and an appropriately tough selfie with the book:<\/i><\/p>\n

Tom Neely\u2019s Henry & Glenn Forever & Ever<\/em> is hilarious. The idea of taking two icons from the hardcore punk scene (which, at its height in the mid-80s, was taken over by macho assholes who made the scene about faux masculinity) and creating a fictional gay romance between them is just genius. <\/p>\n

The thing I appreciated most about the book, however, is its constant references and jokes about not just The Misfits and Black Flag but about heavy metal and punk music in general. This is also, unfortunately, what limits the audience of the book, since your average reader probably doesn\u2019t know who the hell King Diamond or Ian MacKaye are, but for people who do understand these references, they make reading this book all the more enjoyable. <\/p>\n

I myself lost it when aliens brought zombies to life and announced that their prime directive was to \u201cexterminate the whole fucking place,\u201d as well as every time I noticed all the random 138s scattered about. <\/p>\n

I would definitely recommend this book to anyone with reasonable knowledge about punk and metal music and culture.
\n\u2014Dylan Siegler<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We ask all of our interns to choose a book and review it for our blog. Usually, when tasked with this assignment, they head downstairs to the warehouse and deliberate for a half hour. Sometimes it takes them a few days to choose. Not Dylan. He immediately knew. Here’s his review, and an appropriately tough… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[21,35,73,29,27],"class_list":["post-1034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogifesto","tag-book-reviews","tag-comics","tag-henry-and-glenn","tag-punk","tag-punx"],"my_excerpt":"\"Dylan's<\/a>We ask all of our interns to choose a book and review it for our blog. Usually, when tasked with this assignment, they head downstairs to the warehouse and deliberate for a half hour. Sometimes it takes them a few days to choose. Not Dylan. He immediately knew. Here's his review, and an appropriately tough selfie with the book:<\/i>\r\n\r\nTom Neely\u2019s Henry & Glenn Forever & Ever<\/em> is hilarious. The idea of taking two icons from the hardcore punk scene (which, at its height in the mid-80s, was taken over by macho assholes who made the scene about faux masculinity) and creating a fictional gay romance between them is just genius. \r\n\r\nThe thing I appreciated most about the book, however, is its constant references and jokes about not just The Misfits and Black Flag but about heavy metal and punk music in general. This is also, unfortunately, what limits the audience of the book, since your average reader probably doesn\u2019t know who the hell King Diamond or Ian MacKaye are, but for people who do understand these references, they make reading this book all the more enjoyable. \r\n\r\nI myself lost it when aliens brought zombies to life and announced that their prime directive was to \u201cexterminate the whole fucking place,\u201d as well as every time I noticed all the random 138s scattered about. \r\n\r\nI would definitely recommend this book to anyone with reasonable knowledge about punk and metal music and culture. \r\n\u2014Dylan Siegler","my_excerpt_rendered":"

\"Dylan's<\/a>We ask all of our interns to choose a book and review it for our blog. Usually, when tasked with this assignment, they head downstairs to the warehouse and deliberate for a half hour. Sometimes it takes them a few days to choose. Not Dylan. He immediately knew. Here’s his review, and an appropriately tough selfie with the book:<\/i><\/p>\n

Tom Neely\u2019s Henry & Glenn Forever & Ever<\/em> is hilarious. The idea of taking two icons from the hardcore punk scene (which, at its height in the mid-80s, was taken over by macho assholes who made the scene about faux masculinity) and creating a fictional gay romance between them is just genius. <\/p>\n

The thing I appreciated most about the book, however, is its constant references and jokes about not just The Misfits and Black Flag but about heavy metal and punk music in general. This is also, unfortunately, what limits the audience of the book, since your average reader probably doesn\u2019t know who the hell King Diamond or Ian MacKaye are, but for people who do understand these references, they make reading this book all the more enjoyable. <\/p>\n

I myself lost it when aliens brought zombies to life and announced that their prime directive was to \u201cexterminate the whole fucking place,\u201d as well as every time I noticed all the random 138s scattered about. <\/p>\n

I would definitely recommend this book to anyone with reasonable knowledge about punk and metal music and culture.
\n\u2014Dylan Siegler<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1034"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1037,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions\/1037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}