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The reviews came in slowly. I have since learned that reviewers are only human, and 10 times out of 10 they come to a book carrying some kind of subjective agenda. I can accept that. Here are bits and pieces from the ones whose agenda I agreed with. (If you want, you can skip the blurbs and procede to the next installment of the "The Story Behind...Party Out of Bounds." Although you might should read them. It'll only take you a minute.)

Selected quotes:

"Party Out of Bounds" really captures the rhythm and feel of the Athens music scene. Rodger knows. He was there from the beginning."

— Peter Buck - R.E.M.

For fans of the bands, rock historians, and followers of the indie scene, this is a “Party” worth attending.

— Billboard

A book about the interconnected lifelines of the artists, students and musicians who dominate the Athens music scene is a challenging project at best, and Brown has done a better job than anyone would have thought possible. He delineates the tangled spheres of influence and the hundreds of threads of potential that kept – and keep – the Athens music scene alive.

— Athens Magazine

His foot heavy on the accelerator, Mr. Brown speeds his readers through the Georgia darkness from keg parties in rural love shacks to packed warehouse dance marathons in town…Without turning maudlin, Mr. Brown captures both the joy of Athens’s youthful exuberance and the pain of a generation’s loss of innocence to cynicism and AIDS.

— Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Luminous…wittily written…Brown’s musical and sociocultural insights unselfconsciously pierce like perceptual spears….With a book like Brown’s, as with the B-52’s Cosmic Thing, we can revisit, again and again, a mythic place of lust, youth, music and eyeliner; fragments of our past, shards of our present, refractions of our future.

— The San Francisco Bay Guardian

Party Out of Bounds is an entertaining and wistful work which chronicles the origins of Athens, Georgia’s rock scene…The book also recaptures the musical rush of the late 1970s, when challenging new sounds seemed to cut through the air like determined stilettos.

— The Memphis Flyer

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