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8.26pm
17 December 2012
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I'm sorry to say that some of the more glaring chronological/factual errors in the Lennon Letters actually hampered my enjoyment of the book somewhat – stuff like the caption for the photo on page 98 (surely that's not a picture of John by the pool at Kenwood but rather one taken somewhere in LA in late 1973 or thereabouts?), dating John and Paul's first meeting to 1956 (p. 206) and the Toronto festival to 1971 (214), or claiming (also 214) that John and Yoko appeared at George's Bangladesh concert. I just find it really weird that these things didn't get noticed during the review process I'm sure the book underwent. Does that make me a nerd?
3.08pm
25 January 2013
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I spotted an error in the book and decided to email the address that Hunter Davies put in there and was quite surprised when he actually mailed back.
3.15pm
3 May 2012
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Mocker said
I spotted an error in the book and decided to email the address that Hunter Davies put in there and was quite surprised when he actually mailed back.
What did he say? 
8.28am
25 January 2013
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haha, the exact response from Hunter is as follows:
Well spotted- several people have given the same explanation- and I am sure you and they are right… ta Hunter
(was with regards to Hunter thinking when John was talking about 'E's, he may have meant ecstasy but when you look his writing, it is clear that he is talking about the actual letter E! and how he writes them)
Was good of Hunter to respond.
1.47pm
29 November 2012
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Very good of him. And his response was all class, unlike that a-hole Spitz when people (rightly) pointed out the TRUCKLOADS of obvious errors in his "biography."
4.33pm
5 November 2011
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The only thing that annoys me about the book is there are a couple times where there is a letter from John to Cynthia where there are pages of the letters that don't remain, and it says something like, perhaps Cynthia ripped them up and threw away those missing pages, for they were to hard to read. Yeah, even though the letters were written like fifty years ago, let's not assume the rest of the letter just got lost overtime, but instead let's assume Cynthia ripped them up.
11.12am
3 May 2012
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Page 265 – letter number 183 (to Todd Rundgren). He says to him in the letter:
''I never hit a waitress in the Troubador. I did act like an ass, I was drunk. So shoot me.''
Ouch, I almost cried when I read that.
5.27pm
3 May 2012
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Finally finished it this morning! Feel a bit bad that it took me so long, usually I finish any music, and particularly Beatles, book in a few days, not 7 months.
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