Hank Bordowitz has thought long and hard about this question: "If U2 were a book, which book would they be?"
Blame Creedence Clearwater Revival. Bordowitz, the man behind The U2 Reader: A Quarter Century of Commentary, Criticism and Reviews, also gave the world Bad Moon Rising: The Unauthorized History of Creedence Clearwater Revival. As he was working on the latter, a fellow music journalist told him such a book could become "the rock and roll version of Bleak House."
So if John Fogerty and Co.'s dealings conjure comparisons to a Dickens novel (one about a lawsuit that drags on until everyone associated with it is dead), what work of literature does U2 call to mind, Hank?
"The Fountainhead. It has to do with success by sheer force of will."
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