Reviews for Rolling stone magazine

The average rating for Rolling stone magazine based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-01-09 00:00:00 Ned Kozlowski Exhaustively researched, which I appreciated even though the subject doesn't pack the cultural weight it did when it was written in 1990. I got tired of reading about Jann Wenner too. The book obsesses over him, and with good reason - "It's Jann's magazine," people said frequently - but by the epilogue, I was Jann Wenner'd out, especially after reading 400 pages of how horribly he treated most of his journalists. The Hunter S. Thompson parts were worthwhile - the clashes he had with the magazine over his trip to Vietnam, and following Nixon on the campaign trail only to have the story killed. "We will chase them like rats across the tundra," Thompson pledged when hired as a columnist at the San Francisco Examiner, and that struck me as a classic Thompson line. The book also contains a classic Thompson excerpt from his 1968 Pageant article about Nixon (p. 208): "Richard Nixon has never been one of my favourite people, anyway. For years I've regarded his very existence as a monument to all the rancid genes and broken chromosomes that corrupt the possibilities of the American Dream; he was a foul caricature of himself, a man with no soul, no inner convictions, with the integrity of a hyena and the style of a poison toad. The Nixon I remember was absolutely humorless; I couldn't imagine him laughing at anything except maybe a paraplegic who wanted to vote Democratic but couldn't quite reach the lever on the voting machine." It also points out that as Thompson's life continued, his popularity and income became inverse to his actual output. Wenner, meanwhile, became a rock star in his own head.

Review # 2 was written on 2017-02-19 00:00:00 Wade Bare I was surprised to find this a pretty illuminating tale about entrepreneurship. The founder of Rolling Stone, Jann Wenner, may believe his ultimate success was based on his own hard work and canny ability to predict trends. In fact, he was mostly lucky and supported by dozens of hard-working and dedicated employees who worked ungodly hours to get the magazine out on time. Read this then watch The Founder, the movie about Ray Krock and McDonalds. This will tell you everything you need to know about the essential qualities of entrepreneurship.