Reviews for Hand Drums for Beginners

The average rating for Hand Drums for Beginners based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-05-11 00:00:00 Khary Bethea Decent send up of creepy love songs We need to first acknowledge that everyone has their own version of creepy love songs. For me, this book is missing an entire section: I've Been Watching You Grow Up, Now You're Old Enough To Bone. See also, many '50's and 60's love songs. (Shudder.) I enjoyed the author's first book on depressing songs and wanted to give this one a go as well. It surprised me with some song meanings (Alive, really?) but I wasn't familiar enough with some of the others to know them. Due to them being creepy love songs, I didn't want to look them up either. While it was an amusing way to pass time, I'm happy it was a Kindle Unlimited selection, thus free. The author excels in verbally skewering bad music, but goes overboard here in trying to do so in poems, letters, and a poorly executed lesbian love scene.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-08-23 00:00:00 Joe Cecala I loved Reynolds' book skewering depressing pop songs ("I Hate Myself and I Want to Die"), and this collection is just as funny. He doesn't actually hate everything he covers--he likes the band Angels F*ck, and the German metal group Rammstein, among others--but he pokes holes in the hubris and pretension of so many deserving targets, with a pen (or rather, a cursor) dipped in acid. His "dear diary" chapter on "Fergalicious" is just one highlight. It's a great, funny book that says things we all feel, but says them in a far funnier way than we would.