Alternative Literature: A Practical Guide for Librarians Book

This book was pretty wacky. Some of the info/analysis was insightful/useful, and much of the secondary material Siegel brought in was interesting. However, this thing frequently went off the rails, exploring wacky tangents and drawing together all sorts of material without contextualizing fully or explaining WHY various gothy things belonged together. Moreover, I really didn't get a good feel for how actual individual goths (beyond the author) experienced and organized all this gothy stuff. An interesting read, nonetheless, with some illuminating insights into goth culture.