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meanmistermustard said

Has anyone read both Coleman’s and Philip Norman’s? I’m looking to read either author’s book on John but was wondering which one is worth spending the time on over the other.

I still need to read ‘Tune In’.  <sssssssssssiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiggggggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh>

I haven’t read Coleman yet but I am about to. I sold back the Norman book because he goes over very insignificant details such as what brand or style of clothing John wore, and what color. In fact, he pays so much attention to John’s wardrobe, I assumed he was gay. And he throws in a lot of words that you have to look up in the dictionary–like let’s say (this is not a real example) a four syllable word and you look it up and it means “dog.” Obviously to make himself look smarter, he had a thesaurus nearby. He also paints John as a megalomaniac and a bully. I agree with Yoko that he was too “mean” in his portrayal of John. If you want to read a book where you come away from it liking John less, I recommend this one.

AppleScruffJunior said

^ I read Norman’s book 2 years ago and don’t really remember much about it but what you’re saying reminds me of William Styron’s writing (author of  Sophie’s Choice)

“I recalled once more (how many times had I summoned their sound?) the pellucid indecencies Leslie had uttered, and as I did so – the view-finder of my mind reshaping each crevice of her moist and succulent lips, the orthodontically fashioned perfection of the sparkling incisors, even a cunning fleck of foam at the edge of an orifice – it seemed the dizzyiest pipe dream that this very evening, sometime before the sun should fulfill its oriental circuit and rise again on Sheepshead bay that mouth would be – no I could not let myself think about that slippery-sweet mouth and its impending employments.”

 

^ I mean really, there is writing poetically and beautifully like Nabokov and there’s this. 

 

Back on topic: I haven’t bought any Beatles books in a while, I saw a new Lennon biography which was only €7 a couple of weeks back but I looked through at it looked just like another copy-and-paste jobs. It was around 400 pages and looking through the index 300 pages of that was about The Beatles era. 

That brings me to a pet peeve: I hate when biographys particularly of Beatles members spend 80% of the book writing about their Beatle career, I mean John, Paul, George and Ringo did do other things despite being in a  1960’s band- yeesh 

So what is Leslie’s mouth about to do? It sounds kind of erotic to me.

AppleScruffJunior said

Leslie is being dirty- like always, with her filthy ways.

Maybe she needs to be sent to that special room in the Beatles Bible house?

There is that torture room I read about. Something to do with Fifty Shades of Beatles Bible. Obviously the best place for dirty Leslie and her filthy ways.