The Day John Met Paul: An Hour-by-Hour Account of How the Beatles Began
by Jim O'Donnell
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Author: Jim O'DonnellEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2006-09-20
ISBN: 0415979331
Number of pages: 192
Publisher: Routledge
Book Reviews of The Day John Met Paul: An Hour-by-Hour Account of How the Beatles Began
Book Review: Very Little Content, Very Fluffy Writing
Summary: 1 Stars
I'm so disappointed in this book. Overall, it's like a bad teenage research paper. There's about 5 pages of content stretched into 138 pages of fluff. Admittedly, it has a narrow focus, but the author spends endlesss paragraphs talking about the weather and 'Rock-N-Roll lightning' striking instead of actually giving us insight into the people involved.
The author claims to have interviewed dozens of persons there that day but confines his narrative primarily to imagining how Paul and John felt. It would have been much better to just relate different persons observations about what they saw and remembered that day with a bit of narrative in between.
A representative example of the fluff throughout this book from page 102, "Like a dexterous pickpocket, a passing cloud steals the sun from the long gray vest of the sky. The cloud edge is black frosted. The shadows of the Liverpool field become more ill defined. It's a summer evening of deepening dampness. The humidity hangs in a dim blue haze. A sudden breeze whispers a warning of whimsical weather."
If you want to read a book of such poetry with a wee bit of Beatles info, then buy this book.
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