Just Skimmed Through STORMS

[Betsy]

Originally Posted by Boots

...I'm getting a bit deeper into the book. It's fascinating and tedious all at the same time...

I take issue with her own portrayal of herself back then. I don't see her as a young woman who had a real plan to be a sound mixer or produer. I see her as a young woman who wanted to go to Hollywood and be part of the glamour...

...there's no doubt that Lindsey loved her and needed her to be with him at all times. However - I think she pats herself way too much on the back ... it makes ther reader (me) lose any sympathy for her.

... I get this sense that Carol ... is tapping into memories of a 20-something girl ... The years have not provided a shadow of wisdom or humility in the telling of this story...

Another negative element in this book, is her way of telling a story. Not all the flowery, pretty prose can mold a biography into place. She would have ... let US figure things out for ourselves ...

... her relationship with Stevie and how she protrays it, is manipulating to the reader. She doesn't write the situations with enough information to let the reader ... figure out Stevie or anyone else in this FM kingdom.

... Stevie took Carol aside to give her some advice on how to handle LB when he's in a violent mood. Carol never really fleshes out what Stevie said to her. Instead, she provides a very biased view of the conversation, where we do not have the slightest clue as to what Stevie said, but we are left feeling that Nicks was being controlling and weird to her.

... Harris' writing is very one dimensional. I don't know who is right or wrong here - I only know I'm being manipulated in siding with a glorified groupie, whose remembrance of incidents from 25 years ago are tainted with the view of a young, not very bright, woman.

This is one of the best book reports/reviews, I have ever read....and I wasn't smart enough to draw it all together like Boots did. This states the frustrations I have with the book and my difficulty in finishing it.

On another matter, I am enjoying this thread and others like it. It is fun to be reading the same book and get so many different opinions and interpretations, and not just about the book but the subject matter as well.

Thanks for making my "hot-as-a-pizza-oven" summer more enjoyable.