- ISBN13: 9780316332972
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- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
“Here at last is the full, true, and mesmerizing story of Elvis Presley’s last two decades, in the long-awaited second volume of Peter Guralnick’s masterful two-part biography. Last Train to Memphis, the first part of Guralnick’s two-volume life of Elvis Presley, was acclaimed by the New York Times as “a triumph of biographical art.” This concluding volume recounts the second half of Elvis’ life in rich and previously unimagined detail, and confirms Guralnick’s sta… More >>
Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley
i read a good amount of books on musicans and artists and am excited to turn the page , both last train to memphis and carless love bored me stiff. I know i’m the only one who thinks this. Maybe elvis’s life wasn’t really that exciting , but i think it was and this book does not have exiting in it any where. I’ve read other books before that i didn’t like , but it wasn’t because it was boring , it just focused on one elment to long and seemed to be bias. I think i learned more about elvis in Led Zeplin book. These books from what i’ve read are supose to tell every thing there is about elvis. If this is true he was very dry and boring , i feel like i’m not reading a biography but a dry boring novel about some guy that happened to get famous. My over all Opinion is there are other and probably better books then these on Elvis.
Rating: 1 / 5
Another quick book, although it is one of the better ones.
what I can’t stand is to see these people crawl from beneath rocks and write a book on Elvis, a man they never knew.
I don’t want to read a book by someone who only stole the information from at least 500 other publications on Elvis!
Not my cup of tea
Rating: 1 / 5
Well I can’t put it anyway better.
This book was all stolen material from past books/publications.
The publisher LITTLE BROWN, should reevaluate who they deal with. From one of the best books on Elvis, UNSEEN ELVIS to this. What a drop!
I can’t imagine anyone getting paid to steal material, rewrite it and then package it into a large hardback book — and have the nerve to sell it for this much money!
Sorry about this review … but I couldn’t stand it. I liked his first volume better!
Rating: 1 / 5
The dumbing down of the book publishing industry brings us trash like this .This volume tells the reader nothing new .Nor does it send anyone out and about to buy an Elvis CD. Just why anyone would want to listen to an entertainer who needed drugs and backup singers to fill in high notes is a total mystery . Is this book a put on??
Rating: 1 / 5
While searching for something to read in the Munich bahnhof in 1994 I picked up Guralnick’s ‘Last Train to Memphis’. Never having been particularly interested in Elvis in the past, the book seemed to center on the only period of his life that interested me: the inspirational time of his emergence. I found the book to be a well-told tale of a determined, decent young man with talent rising to the top of the entertainment world through a combination of willpower, talent and luck. I have been eagerly awaiting the last installment of Guralnick’s yarn since then. But now I find myself in a quandry. Never have I seen such a polarization of intelligent opinion about a book. The reader reviews in Amazon go from the sublime to the damned with readers rarely falling in between those categories. The bulk of credible criticism seems to be centered around the Johnny Rivers controversy. If Guralnick is wrong, either by error or intentionally, why doesn’t Mr. Rivers engage in litigation rather than simply writing a complaint in Amazon? That would lend far more credibility to his contention in my mind. And what makes blpitcher think that his unsupported “I know the Johnny Rivers/Memphis accusation is a falsehood” statement hold anymore weight than anything Guralnick has written? I am anxious an willing to consider blpitcher’s statement, but not on the weight of his good word…he should be bound by the same rules of ethics to which he holds Guralnick. Indeed, the other critics who’ve attacked Guralnick’s “Rivers/Memphis” story seem equally convinced. I’m open-minded: convince me
Rating: 3 / 5