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STANDING IN TWO CIRCLES The Collected Works of BOYD RICE
Kindra RavenMoon's Book Reviews:
STANDING IN TWO CIRCLES The Collected Works of BOYD RICE
Edited by Brian M. Clark
This is the first ever comprehensive compendium of the works of Boyd Rice. If you are a long time loyal fan or if you have never heard of his name before I assure you that you will be intrigued and astonished with what you will read within these pages. This Boyd Rice bible contains everything and anything that one has ever dreamed to know about Boyd Rice.Covering his humble beginnings as a Noise musician ,his stuggles with acceptence into the art world or just into the world itself for that matter and how he has gathered a cult following over the years through his roles of musician,actor,photographer,writer,deejay of off beat quirky musics,performer,student of the occult,Satanic priest,filmmaker/actor,tiki bar/culture revivalist,plus more.. with every role becoming more challanging,more daring and more contraversial you begin to wonder if Rice is an insane genius or just one or the other haha. Seriously you dont need to be a Boyd Rice fan to enjoy this book. Just knowing about his adventrues both good and bad,his successes and his downfalls you will be inspired and will gain insight of this world through Boyd Rice's experiences As a newcomer to his works you may fall in love with his trickster nature just as a loyal fan may be totally surprized of what they may read here causing them to turn against all what they precieved Boyd Rice to be.
Standing In Two Circles also features a medely of experimental and fetish photographs some never before published and holds a great taste of Rice's song lyrics from over the past 17 years and again most never before published until now.
Also previously published as well as unpublished essays all very provocative covering subjects such as Charles Manson,the Hellfire Club,Abraxas,rape and lighter subjects such as the cocktail culture and Mondo Films.
Standing in Two Circles is a must read and is a fine collectable for all Boyd Rice fans and fans to be. Love him or hate him the intelligent mind will be curious to know what lies within these tell all pages.
If I must rate this fine work I do highly recommend Standing In Two Circles giving it a 5/5++
By Kindra RavenMoon