Into the Void: The new autobiography from Geezer Butler, bassist and lyricist of heavy metal music pioneers Black Sabbath

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Speaking of Lanoree… I struggled to identify with her and root for her. I did support her from the basic position of I hoped she would stop disaster from happening, but other than that it was difficult to empathise with her. She was a fairly distant character, and whilst I didn’t dislike her, I didn’t like her either. Tre Sana and Dam Powl were more interesting. I wanted to know what secrets those two were so obviously hiding. At times I outright disagreed with Lanoree’s actions, specifically, her using the Force to intrude upon her brother when they were young. I get that she was well-intentioned, and obviously Dal has issues with personal identity and purpose, but Lanoree couldn’t respect or accept his boundaries and choices (misguided as they may have been) and that made me downright annoyed with her. That said, I must praise how Lebbon handled Lanoree and Tre. As the story progressed I felt that things were subtly progressing towards a Lanoree/Tre pairing, but Lebbon subverted my expectations and instead of leading us down that path leaves the question open and ambiguous at the end. Butler has a lot of ground to cover in his memoir and he hits the highlights and chooses short, fascinating stories to emphasize events and to color situations. Some of the stories we have heard before either in interviews with Geezer or from the perspective of Ozzy Osbourne and Tony Iommi, who have published books of their own. It is great to get Butler’s perspective. It is not that he contradicts the other accounts, he just tells them in his own words. As a writer, he's not especially funny but the sheer absurdity of some of these stories make the book very, very funny at times. It's also fascinating to find exactly what so many of his lyrics (until the Dio era, Geezer wrote almost all the words for Sabbath) were about.

A simple story of a family torn apart and pretty much the adventures of a Lanoree, a Jedi who's traveling around getting into trouble. Immediately, this book drew me in with the appearance of a green glowing light that compels people to follow it, get on their knees in apparent ecstacy as their skin boils away and they peel their skin and tissue from their bodies. Osbourne won the "Literary Achievement" honor for "I Am Ozzy" at the 2010 Guys Choice Awards at Sony Pictures Studio in Culver City, California. Ozzy was presented with the award by Sir Ben Kingsley. This mission seems kind of important, so clearly they should only send one person. Maybe everyone else was busy with a trade dispute on Naboo.

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Yeah, you'd never be able to guess because you'd be going for something new. Also, they use the force and swords and have masters and apprentices. So it's definitely an origin story and not just an exact replication of the jedi we know and love. Finding myself in a serious holiday malaise and more entranced with my trial DC Universe subscription than reading, this was the book I finished out 2018 with. And it was entertaining enough. Unsurprisingly, the best stories are of Sabbath's early days - penniless and gigging all over the country, getting into trouble, usually while drunk as part of a tightly knit group of friends. Later, as the wheels fell off and the increasingly coke-ravaged band grew apart and into money/rights-related acrimony, a lot of the fun goes out of his tale.

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