is it healthy to listen to Dark Globe a dozen or more times per day?

a timely and rather chaste novel describing life in a research lab setting in Cambridge, MA and a dilemma of interpersonal and scientific ethics….nice depictions of relations between and among members of the lab ecosystem (profs, postdocs, techs, even mice) and lots of name-checking of places in & around Harvard Square.

Alas, I did not make it all the way through “Rip It Up And Start Again”—I obtained it through interlibrary loan and ran out of renewals and had to send it back. (Disappointingly few libraries own it.)

However, unlike too many rock journalism books I’ve read, I found this one to be well-researched and well-written, with the author standing out of the way for the most part and letting the bands tell the stories. I missed out on this era of music while it was happening but have been getting into post-punk lately; this book was a nice complement to listening to the actual music.