The Beatles Bible - Topic: Best Beatles Book?

DrBeatle on Best Beatles Book?

Thu, 23 May 2013 16:45:23 +0100

Linde said
Oh the last paragraph is not THAT special and surprising really.

Yeah...perhaps we oversold it a bit But it *is* sad when you consider she's pushing 80 and still feels that much regret and resentment. Understandable that she does, but still...it's sad.

Linde on Best Beatles Book?

Thu, 23 May 2013 15:58:16 +0100

Oh the last paragraph is not THAT special and surprising really.

AppleScruffJunior on Best Beatles Book?

Tue, 21 May 2013 21:15:31 +0100

Ah no thanks but cheers for the offer. It'll probably have more of an impact on me once I've read the entire book

DrBeatle on Best Beatles Book?

Tue, 21 May 2013 19:40:12 +0100

I can type it out for you if you want to read it and don't mind not being surprised (mildly) when you read it...up to you. It's nothing shocking or revealing, it's just really sad.

AppleScruffJunior on Best Beatles Book?

Tue, 21 May 2013 19:19:27 +0100

Damn you guys I can't get this book until next month and I really want to know what the final paragraph says now :/

DrBeatle on Best Beatles Book?

Tue, 21 May 2013 19:14:09 +0100

Interesting...I'd been thinking of picking up Pattie's book, at least on my iPad...perhaps I will now!

Linde, glad you liked Cynthia's book. I agree with you, it seemed like she NEVER got over John, even to the very end, but it was a bit sad how much it held her back in the 70s. Still, I supposed it's understandable. Although when you read that final paragraph, it's really quite sad and puts the rest of the entire book in stark relief.

fabfouremily on Best Beatles Book?

Tue, 21 May 2013 18:39:16 +0100

^^ As Katie said, she doesn't reveal anything new about George or her marriage to him. I enjoyed it though. I didn't know that much about her before I read it and now I do so it's good enough for that reason alone, in my opinion. Depends if you're interested in her life before she met George, as she speaks a fair bit about her childhood and young adulthood in London in the middle of the Swinging Sixties.

AppleScruffJunior on Best Beatles Book?

Sun, 19 May 2013 16:16:28 +0100

Linde said

Yeah it made me very sad too. But maybe she would've been right by saying no.

By the way, is Pattie's book any good? I've heard many different opinions on it.

It was OK, nothing great but I liked her section on her marriage to Eric more then George's. I wished she'd told me one-off anecdotes or stories about her marriages to either of them (but particularly George's of course). She told it as it is but we'd already heard all of the little bits she mentions George cheating on her with Maureen, Eric's ex etc. Nothing new really but ...

Linde on Best Beatles Book?

Sun, 19 May 2013 16:09:59 +0100

Yeah it made me very sad too. But maybe she would've been right by saying no.

By the way, is Pattie's book any good? I've heard many different opinions on it.

fabfouremily on Best Beatles Book?

Sat, 18 May 2013 13:54:02 +0100

^^ I cried. A lot. Glad you enjoyed it

Linde on Best Beatles Book?

Fri, 17 May 2013 22:54:24 +0100

I've finished the book. The ending was indeed kind of sad. I really liked the book. Can't wait to start on a new book about the Beatles!

AppleScruffJunior on Best Beatles Book?

Fri, 17 May 2013 22:13:28 +0100

I think I'll have Cynthia as my secondary source (I have to have 2 in my history project) maybe Julia for the other secondary source and the killer (obviously) for primary. I've always liked Cynthia she seems really sweet in all the interviews I've seen of her and read and the way Julian talks about her. From what I can remember of having read Pattie's book she never really seemed to be the whole "even through my struggling marriage with Eric, I knew George still loved me" which is what I like about Pattie she just seemed to be "c'est ...

Linde on Best Beatles Book?

Fri, 17 May 2013 22:03:52 +0100

@AppleScrufJunior and DrBeatle I'm almost at the end of the audiobook, completely forgot about it lol. I really like it, though all this ''I loved him and I knew he loved me'' crap is getting a bit old. I'm at 1976 right now and while I gained a bit of sympathy for Yoko (or Hokie, as Julian used to call her) after the Jonathan Ross interview, I've now nearly lost all of it.

She had a few dates wrong though. She could've easily looked them up on the internet.

I'm halfway through part 35 now and it has 39 parts, so I'll ...

fabfouremily on Best Beatles Book?

Thu, 09 May 2013 10:05:05 +0100

There is a book that somebody mentioned the other day (mmm?) which discusses each theory surrounding John's death. My parents bought it a few years ago and we don't have it any longer, I dunno if it's still in print. That would be quite good if that's what you're doing your essay on. Maybe try ebay?

Have you read J.L. letters? I know it's not a biography as such but some of the letters reveal quite a bit about where his mind was at different times in his life? Could be useful.

AppleScruffJunior on Best Beatles Book?

Wed, 08 May 2013 16:38:00 +0100

I want to buy that book ^^ for the summer so I can read it during my holidays along with a couple of other books on John (I'm doing my final history report on John's murder) so it's basically an excuse to get loads of books on John Can anybody recommend any good books on John, that are still in-print and if you know one that focuses on his murder then even better. I'm also planning to get Julia Baird's book!
And maybe another George book