Members of the Dylan cult desire revelation, commandments brought down from the mountain. Until then, another book will have to stand in.

Lies. Deception. Secrets. Confusion. Suspense. All of these play a big part in Beautiful Lies as Ridley Jones, a freelance writer living in New York's East Village, finds out that her life isn't what she thought it was.

Honestly, having met hundreds of bands, it is hard to find more than a very few interested in much more than the cheapest food available. Kapranos and his mates readily admit to eating the usual bad band-on-the-road food, but they also appear to take advantage of their touring and search out the unusual and unique.

The books' strengths come from authorship. Many of the writers are people who live the lives of musicians and aspire to be the subject of one of these books.