Review by Publisher's Weekly Review
Heavy metal frontman Corey Taylor of Slipknot and Stone Sour fame offers this fascinating insider look at paranormal investigation and how the otherworldly has affected his life. Taylor's performance ability is undeniable, and he's clearly comfortable talking about even the most bizarre and outrageous subjects with ease, making this an absolutely compulsive listen for fans of his music or the macabre. Taylor's delivery is straightforward and unabashed. While the subject matter is, for the most part, quite dark-e.g., spirits and ghost busting-Taylor brings an air of nonchalance to his reading that allows humor and dark comedy to abound. A Da Capo hardcover. (July) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
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Review by Library Journal Review
Taylor's (Seven Deadly Sins) sophomore offering promises ghost stories galore, but the lead singer of metal band Slipknot takes a while to deliver the chills. He begins with his childhood exploration of a neighborhood spook house with friends, then diverges for a lengthy spiel on atheism (he's for it). Taylor's an entertaining narrator, but he's written two books in one. Once he returns to his exploration of the world of modern ghost hunters, the listener's patience is rewarded. With Slipknot's The Document, a career retrospective CD/DVD scheduled for release this fall, Taylor is tagging all bases of multimedia. Verdict Recommended for larger libraries.-Kelly Sinclair, Temple P.L., TX (c) Copyright 2013. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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Review by Kirkus Book Review
Slipknot singer sees dead people. Apparently, Taylor (Seven Deadly Sins: Settling the Argument Between Born Bad and Damaged Good, 2011) has backstage passes to the spirit world that not many of us are privileged enough to get: He not only sees ghosts on a regular basis, but he's also convinced that the same spooks are haunting him everywhere he goes. His first recollection of seeing ghosts was around the age of 9, when he and some friends went on a Goonies-like adventure to a scary-looking old house in his suburb. In that house, he saw his first sinister apparition, which seemed to be an old man who wanted the young whippersnappers out of his house. From then on, according to Taylor, his life has been one big spook-tacular extravaganza filled with supernatural occurrences. (Later in the book, the author does his tedious best to scientifically prove that these spirits can, in fact, walk the terrestrial plane among us.) Taylor recalls stories about seeing a shadow man in a cornfield trying to attack him; he was once pushed down the stairs by a malevolent, otherworldly force; every time he buys a new Munsters-style mansion, it turns out to be haunted by the spirits of dead children. To Taylor's credit, all these anecdotes about his close encounters with the spirit world are told in exacting detail, and you certainly want to believe him. Unfortunately, insecurity about how his theories and stories will be received comes to the fore in a big way: Taylor alternates between annoying self-deprecation and smug self-congratulation, spending too much time on humorless, expletive-laden rants against those who would dare question his place among the elite few who have regular interface with supernatural beings. Mostly fun campfire ghost stories marred by pseudo-scientific babble and a self-conscious rock-star attitude.]] Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
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