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Originally Posted by SteveMacD
Funny how she doesn't seem to understand that it's his story, too.
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Well the 'his story' stuff would've then just been the stuff about his dog and the girls he dated and the working stuff in production. But once you start talking a lot about other people and their lives and personalities then it's not just your story anymore. Because you're giving a lot of perspective into them and they don't have the opportunity to speak for themselves (albeit in this case, he asked them to contribute). That's how it always is with any tell all that involves a kind of 'nobody' author involved with a lot of 'somebodies' (to the general public), it rarely ends up being mainly your story.
CAH's book is a fantastic example of this. You hardly learn anything of depth about
her. Let's be real, her book is not some memoir about her life-- it's a book about Fleetwood Mac and Lindsey in their heyday, giving juicy anecdotes and gossipy things and stories that the fans will want to read about their favorite band. Yes, she put up with a lot of crap but there's even some reason to believe (from things other people have said) that she twisted the truth around a little bit about certain things to make herself look more favorable so that it could spinned as a 'survivor's story' towards the end.
I can imagine Stevie probably didn't read Ken's book in entirety or even close to it and she just grouped it as another trashy tell all/people selling other people out/gossipy gossip type of thing. So I get where she's coming from.