Too Weird for Ziggy

by Sylvie Simmons

Book Overview

In "Pussy," the girl singer of the eponymous band cracks up after her lover and the band's creative center dies. When her manager tracks her down she is living anonymously in an East Village tenement, rarely going outdoors, and hoarding her own discarded hair, dead skin and other physical castoffs.
In "Greetings from Finsbury Park," a British rock star comes home from L.A. only to find that the customs agent going through his suitcase is an embittered...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802141560
• ISBN13: 9780802141569
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: Grove Press, Black Cat
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Connect The Dots Rock Starz

Second book I've read this summer, although I was some what disappointed with Too Weird For Ziggy it was much better than Lily Burana's STRIP CITY, however it now leaves me to find yet another book to satisfy my summer reading bug. What I felt was annoying was how the snippets would stop short, they never seemed to satisfy the juicy middles. It's a shame because the stories themselves were fab; each one was rich with intriguing plots, colourful personalities and believable wackiness. One chapter I skimmed was "close to you" I found it predictable and excruciating to finish so I skipped it and went on to the next chapter. What I found fun, exciting and a page turner, were the clues Sylvie gives the reader, to making the rock-star connections. What at first I thought were separate identities actually intertwined as the story progressed. Sylvie did such a great job building "pussy" that I sympathized and championed her character throughout the book. I can see this book being turned into a Hollywood Movie cast with well-known controversial celebs for a few quick EZ bucks but unless it was revised it would shortly after be sent to DVD. To the publishers, using the Sharon Osbourne blurb was a sly marketing device as it was what got me to check the book out from the library. All in all, I would recommend this book for a light summer read, it only took several days to finish which is good because I would have been highly upset if I spent more reading time on a book which I felt had quickly rushed endings.

Amazingly truetolife stories that only fiction can achieve

Terrific stuff. I loved the style, the humour and the thrillingly horrifying atmosphere of madness and chaos that (I'm guessing here), accurately reflects life in the music business. The book has particularly good similes, and has a great sense of comic timing. Naturally, I'm jealous of all these abilities - but not of the world it is set in. After reading the book, I was left wondering if anything would ever be Too Weird for Sylvie!

Superb Satirical Stuff

There are just enough well known traits in each of these characters to make you think you know who the author is writing about. Anyone with more than a passing interest in music will be able to decipher the composites. And that -- for me -- was almost as much fun as the plots and story lines, albeit they reach some new levels of debauchery and decadent humor. Long live rock's spirit, as told by Sylvie Simmons. I sure hope she writes another book.

Great, spooky stuff!

These fascinating tales are creepier than Hitchcock and funnier than Wilde. The stories wrapped around the music biz are natural fodder for the famous journalist but the others are even more bizarre and entertaining. Simmons' seamless style and wonderful wit will floor you. This is fiction in the rock'n'roll style!