Reviews and Comments

This book is awful.

This is the longest 186 pages I’ve ever read.

Poorly defined characters, terrible dialogue, clumsy narration, plot points you can see coming from 100 miles away, and a very strong anti-abortion agenda made this one of the more unpleasant reads I’ve had lately.

A good rule of thumb that I always try to follow: if Stephen King recommends a book, it is almost always terrible. Guess who has a gushing quote on the back jacket of this book?

This was fine. Not Amor’s best, but still worth reading

Dr. Gordon was one of my teachers and said directly to me many of the things he wrote about here. It was delightfully nostalgic to “hear” them again and to spend a few more moments in the presence of this great man.

This book gets an “A” for effort, but is not good. It reads like a series of blog posts, with occasional profundity (the succinct entry on “Jealous Guy” is one of the better assessments of Lennon’s admitted domestic violence that I’ve read), but more often it comes across like an college undergraduate term paper, complete with references to now dated celebrities and technologies.

It’s just so unfortunate, as this kind of book - one that analyzes the solo output of the ex-Beatles, but together and year-by-year - is sorely needed. But this ain’t it.

There are so many factual errors in this book that I actually lost count of them.