A fantastic read, and I know there's a few of you fine folk in here who would really enjoy this.
 
And a real bargain - Amazon.com~$22.36/Amazon.co.uk~£12.79 - for a 700+ page hardback.
 
 
 

Looks awesome.
Crossing my fingers that they have it in Kindle format as well.

 
I'm not much of a Kindle fan to be honest Krist, I just love the feel of 'real' books I guess. LOL, I've got enough of them on various bookshelves all around my house 
 
And this tome is just begging to be handled, especially for the copious amount of excellent photographs it contains.
 
 

And it's the oral version to boot!
 
(The other version is a pain in the arse.)

I used to hate reading on the computer but the Kindle app changed that somewhat. It makes it easier to navigate the book, you can adjust text size, it automatically recalls where you left, etc. For trivial stuff like biographies and such, I love it. I can just sit in my studio, magnify the text a bit, grab my guitar and practice scales and such while I'm reading.
 
It's also nice to have all the tools at your fingertips to look up word's definition or to check a wiki entry about something. Sometimes when reading a regular book, there's some things I'll simply let slide.
 
That being said, sometimes, I wish I had both a printed version and the Kindle version.
 
And for anything which requires more attention like philosophy or history books or such, there's just nothing like the real thing.

Incidentally, I've read this one last week.
 

 
Nice book w/ a few cool stories, short chapters, nothing too in-depht - pretty much what I'd expect from the Riffmeister.
 
One cool and odd thing I've learned which threw me off... Iommi mentions that the first Sabbath album (as well as the following) was recorded at Regent Sounds. I had heard the name before and maybe read it in Hendrix biographies, but never made a clear mental image or looked it up, not until I read this book where Iommi mentions that the studio was actually little tiny place where they were practically sitting on one another.
 
I had always imagined that the first Sabbath record had been recorded live in a huge room somewhere, maybe something like a disaffected gymnasium, or an old theater or such. To me that's how it sounded, that's the picture I had created in my mind. Not anything like this:
 

 
 
 

 

Rain
Incidentally, I've read this one last week.
 

I've got that too mate, it's an excellent read.
 
And I recently read this, it's a bit patchy in places and sparse in detail (probably quite understandably!), and not as good as Iommi's book, but it's interesting all the same:
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Ozzy's would have to be taken from third-party accounts since you know Ozzy can't remember a thing!

Rain
..... Iommi mentions that the studio was actually little tiny place where they were practically sitting on one another.
 

Very similar to many of our home studios.

(Note to self: When in the Thousand Oaks studio, cover eyes if Bapu picks up a hammer.)