Binding: Hardcover
EAN: 9780007197415
ISBN: 0007197411
Label: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Manufacturer: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Number Of Pages: 448
Publication Date: October 01, 2008
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Release Date: October 01, 2008
Studio: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd

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Rating: - Definitive and a great read
I have not read any other book about John Lennon so i cannot comment on the claims of "hackery" and my views are therefore only based on my reading of this book alone. And what a book. A brilliant read, very interesting details about his early life but also the book weaves the genesis of various songs and albums into the various stages of Lennon's life. I agree that the Yoko Ono years are slightly less interesting, however the final chapter, where Sean discusses some of his memories of John is really ... Read More

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Rating: - BEATLES JOHN LENNON
Well I have just read what has been the most interesting book on John Lennon's life. I have a few books on the Beatles and John Lennon for me this was a wonderful time capsule of this life. I loved the letters that Aunt Mimi received from a fan at the time of the Beatles success which Mimi seemed happy to correspond with. She even tells her of the pending move to the South Coast, sharing all this with someone she never met. Ok, it was interesting for me to learn about John's grandparents and also that ... Read More

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Rating: - Haunting
In The Word magazine (October issue), Philip Norman suggested, in passing, that his latest book was intended to be a biography of Lennon to set alongside similar volumes devoted to Churchill, Ghandi and Hitler: - an antidote to the flimsy paperback pop-biog formula, and a reflection of the musician's huge place in 20th Century culture. The sheer size of the book (853 pp, not the 448 in Amazon's product details) testifies to this hubristic ambition, and, at over 1/3 million words, the result is a true ... Read More

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Rating: - Hackery
I was expecting great things of this book given that Norman had access to Yoko but this is really a compilation of all that's already been written about Lennon with no credits, footnotes or bibliography referring to the authors whose shoulders he stands upon. What's worse, he doesn't even seem to have read some of the best of the recent books. He overlooks Lennon's brief conversion to Christianity covered by Steve Turner's The Gospel According to the Beatles, Geoffrey Giuliano's Lennon in America, Frederic ... Read More

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Rating: - A serviceable biography
I'm not working just now and like one of the other reviewers I read it in three days. I really enjoyed it. I was 12 when Love Me Do came out and my sister and I bought all their albums on the day of release for several years.

I was also around in London in the late sixties so enjoyed reading the detail about that period.

There are several things about this book which really impressed me however. One is the carefully built up and three dimensional portrait of Lennon's childhood, ... Read More

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