Best books on the band?

erikdees

I really like PJ20. It is written from year to year and every album has it's own few pages with some nice info. Could have been more. I have books about the Beatles, The doors and Nirvana that have stories on every song. Song by song.
Back to PJ 20 apart from handeling the albums it further has a day by day walk through the year. Telling something about every note worthy event. It alot of cool pictures. It is a bit pricy, but well worth it. I'm reading it for the second time and in between the first and the second read I have used it to look up info alot of times.

I agree that None to frigile isn't the best book.
Pearl Jam by Mick Wall is a good read and it has a nice Seattle family tree.
The Allan Jones book is fun as well, it has photo's as well which is rather limited in the other one.
Both cover only the earlier years. PJ 20 is more complete as it is newer and covers the band until Backspacer.
The Mick Wall book and the Allan Jones book are easy to fing for a lower price, but like I said PJ 20 is well worth the money.

fox_mulderX

aennil wrote:

Don't waste your time on Five against One. It is good to write critical journalism and be skeptical, but that book seems like a PJ-tabloid magazine, where every little thing get blown up into big dramas. And every chapter ends in this weird way, as on the peak of the drama.
You can probably find a lot of interesting stuff in the book, but i got really annoyed by the tone it is written in.

My biggest issue with the book is how in depth it went into Ed's life and not the other members.

TheGMan

Going to very belatedly check out PJ20 based on the advice in here. I had forgotten I had read Five Against One, which maybe says something in itself.

PJammin'

I read Five Against One a long time ago. I remember being very intrigued with the book. However, I really don’t know how accurate it is.