{"id":1748,"date":"2013-07-07T17:36:59","date_gmt":"2013-07-08T01:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=1748"},"modified":"2013-07-07T17:36:59","modified_gmt":"2013-07-08T01:36:59","slug":"review-you-dont-know-me-but-you-dont-like-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=1748","title":{"rendered":"Review: You Don&#8217;t Know Me But You Don&#8217;t Like Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>You Don&#8217;t Know Me But You Don&#8217;t Like Me<\/em> is kind of hard to get a handle on.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not quite the sort of travelogue that it seems like it might me from the title\/blurb. Nathan Rabin does take us on a tour of both Phish sub-culture and Insane Clown Posse sub-culture with interviews and first person accounts, but somehow neither the bands nor the fans take center stage for long.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not completely a memoir, because the whole narrative is viewed from the viewpoints that these sub-cultures come to represent.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a strange book to put a label on.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also a difficult book to put down.\u00a0 Rabin underwent a reluctant transformation during the time he put this thing together, and those personal experiences are the core of the book. This is the kind of transformation that ends with &#8220;and what the hell&#8217;s coming next?&#8221; not &#8220;and we all had a good laugh looking back.&#8221;\u00a0 Rabin does an excellent job telling his story honestly, neither trivializing the small personal moments nor generalizing for false universality.\u00a0 While I think many people will be able to relate to his journey, it is very much his journey.<\/p>\n<p>Rabin&#8217;s writing supports this unusual narrative.\u00a0 When he is introspective and analytical about what he has experienced, his thoughts are clear on the page.\u00a0 When he&#8217;s spinning a yarn that happened to him on a Greyhound somewhere his descriptions are vivid and memorable.\u00a0 Both of these make the story work.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, an unlikely melange of memoir and reporting that is intelligent, diverting, and honest.<\/p>\n<p>Recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You Don&#8217;t Know Me But You Don&#8217;t Like Me is kind of hard to get a handle on.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not quite the sort of travelogue that it seems like it might me from the title\/blurb. Nathan Rabin does take us on a tour of both Phish sub-culture and Insane Clown Posse sub-culture with interviews and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1748"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1750,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748\/revisions\/1750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}