Elvis and Me by Priscilla Beaulieu Presley Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Elvis and Me
Book Review: Give me, Give me
Summary: 3 Stars
I read Ms. Presley's book and I felt for her when she was only 14 and still a kid. Yet,as I read the book and seen how she said she loved him and how much her parents loved her. I had a very hard time accepting that anyone in the book really knew what it was to love another person. It was a book about lust of the flesh, disrespect for each other and what each self-centered individual could get off the other. More to say what they could get by being associated and in favor with Mr. Elvis Aaron Presley. The man became a bully, drug addict, prevert and why, because he did not know who he was anymore. He only knew what was expected of him financially and that all who said they loved him didn't have the guts to stand up and tell him that money was not the most important thing in the world to them he was;that he needed to take time and get his life pulled together. He was a fianancal product and nothing more to the people he was associated with. He is as much to blame for his bad life and death as all the others. The people closest to him should have united and stood their ground and gave Mr. Presley the strength he needed from them to better his life. Mr. Parker should have gotten him better acting roles. I am writing a paper on why Mr. Presley behaved the way he did. I am trying to get inside his head, to understand him as a person.Book Review: Good Book
Summary: 4 Stars
I haven't finish reading my book yet but so far I think i is really good. I can really relate to her liking an older guy/ singer. I personally wish what happen to her with Elvis would happen to me with Usher. Also i can relate moving around a lot because my dad is in the army. Anyways i really like this book so far.Book Review: Good insightful story.
Summary: 5 Stars
I originally saw the movie a few years ago and came across this book and had to get it. While it is not the "whole story" of their lives together, its a good look at it. The book is only just over 300 pages and that just cannot cover 14 years or whatever.
There are such mixed reviews and this book is compared to so many other stories that I have not read. But I still liked this book. No way does it tell everything, who would write a book that gave away all their memories and left nothing sacred for you to look back on?
One thing, after reading the reviews for this book I have to say that alot of people are sad. Elvis was with Pricillia for years. She was his only wife. Come on, there was no way he hated her or was pushed into anything. Give it up. Actions speak louder then words and all that. I do not think she bashed Elvis with this book. I think she told her story, and maybe she did embelish it a little. Who is to say? Who else was there but them to know what happened? She showed that she loved him enough to live how he wanted her to. How she tried to be everything he wanted. It also shows how Elvis brought her into his life and how her transformation happened.
Pricilla's writing is easy to follow and identify with. Obisouly it is going to be a one sided story, as Elvis is dead. Common sence, why would a superstar be with and marry a woman who he supposedly did not want to be with when he could have had anybody? Why did he not marry Ann Margret if she was his great love? Why did he keep going back to Pricilla if what he really wanted to do was let her go? Be real and let go of jealously.
I think that this shows a side of Elvis that no one would have known about if Pricilla did not share it. I fell in love with that side of him. Even if he was a little weird. Which he was.
I think that this is a good story and gives you a peak into Elvis's life from a point of view that no one else has. It is a good book and makes you want everything to work out. Only you know that it wont. I think that Pricilla was a lucky woman who had one hell of a life with Elvis. A life that many others wished for themselves.
Book Review: Graceland's Ivory Tower
Summary: 4 Stars
It's hard to imagine a world without Elvis. I was only 2 when he died, but I seem to vaguely remember it. He was larger than life, a constant presence, and one of the biggest hyped celebrities to have ever lived. It seemed there was no fascet of his life left unexamined, no stones unturned, and even the most private of moments was explosed (he did die on the toilet, after all).
Priscilla was the one we above all others wanted to hear from. What was Elvis really like? Who better than she to tell us about him? When her book was published it became an instant best seller, and we continue to study it to this day because we simply want to know. It is an amazing story, to be sure, how the daughter of a career officer in the army living on a military base in Germany would not just end up meeting Elvis, but becoming his wife.
It's sweet, really, to read this. Priscilla loved him, no question about that. There is an innocence about it, that she was a star struck child who fell for a man who was the closest thing to a god. We can feel her pain and tears, how she missed him during her lonely years in Germany, her joy of getting to spend Christmas with him, and her sorrows of having to leave (the visits, and eventually the marriage). These are the tears of a child, and remembering my own lost innocence, this is something that we will never get back. That first love is almost like a sickness, all consumming and overwhelming.
Her insights into Elvis, the man, however, are not tabloidly (if that's a word) but evoke as many questions as there are answers. We found out that he was a very insecure man, and demanded of her and others complete and total devotion. They had a strange relationship, as she was a sort of dress up doll that he wanted to mold and shape into his image of the perfect woman and she saw him as a combination father figure / lover. He loved to eat, he loved to pop pills, and he loved to party. We all knew that. There were a few naughty secrets revealed without being raunchy about their not so chaste sex life before they were married. (That was pretty funny about how she wore disguises to get more Polariod film at the corner drug store as she was afraid the clerk knew what they were taking so many pictures of! HA!)
There is a dark side to this as well, as Elvis would descend further in his addictions, weight gain and mood swings. It has long been an established fact that Elvis married Priscilla because he had promised her father that someday he would and refused to break the promise. He was not faithful to her either before or after they were married. Priscilla was expected to be more of an obedient child rather than only a submissive wife. She was discouraged from having any interests other than him, as Elvis, I believe, was secretly fearful that she would not devote herself exclusivly to him. The biggest secret revealed was that Elvis never approached her for sex again after the birth of their daughter, Lisa. With the addition of a child, Elvis's being gone at all times, his infidelity and ignoring of her needs, and Priscilla's ennui, she drifted from him (his worst fear coming true). It's not surprising that the marriage failed.
Why not 5 stars? There is probably a lot more happened that she isn't telling us. After Elvis died, Graceland Enterprises took a Disney approach and cleaned up his image to market. He's been dead for 30 years, and she still goes by Priscilla Presley because the minute she remarries she will be Mrs. Smith not his one and only wife and mother of his only legitimate child. But, I'm sure she did love him in a childlike way, and I'm sure a part of her always will.
Book Review: Great Book!
Summary: 5 Stars
I thought this book was great! I read it when I was 11 and just recently now and I am 16. I found the book great for Elvis fans to get to know him better. I like the book so much that I've let my friends read it, I would suggest this book to anyone!