Just Skimmed Through STORMS

[Nico]

Originally Posted by michelej1

But if you know it runs in the family, then its easier to keep it under control, because you get checked for it, take the tests even before you have symptoms and at a younger age than most of the population woudl, etc.. If you aren't in denial, of course.


Michele

Maybe Lindsey has become a health nut as of late. He looks like he eats nothing but sugarless Kashi Puffs and bean sprout sandwiches anyway.

But in that CAH book, which I finally found, there's a whole thing about Lindsey not really caring about his health. Like, he would avoid his epilepsy pills like the plague and Carol Ann would force feed them to him. Plus he continues to abuse drugs, alcohol, and all kinds of things he was told specifically NOT to do. Like even flying immediately after have a spinal tap. I mean...you have to do what you have to do, but I'm hoping he's done a 180 since then. I have to say, totally objective here, he has aged REALLY, really well. He's still got it. And you don't stay that way without some effort. So go LB! Keep swimming or eating vegetables or rocking out in your basement...whatever keep you in shape.

(I'm a HUGE workout advocate. I live to exercise. It's one of those variables I'm apt to abuse like some people shop or eat. Stress Reliever.)

[Mondener]

well I read the book. and I think before talking about, read it first. I mean saying that Lindsey was not too upset is kind of interpretation, I mean they both met after the split up and I also think you can read it everywhere that the thing between them is still going on, and i mean the kind of chemistry between the two, that is going on til today. I find it quite interesting to read the book and I totally have the feeling that she´s trying to write it in all honesty about her point of view. great lecture, fun to read

[Sorceress]

Originally Posted by kak125

I found what seems to be the entire book online if anybody is interested. I think its about 383 pages. I am reading it now.

http://books.google.com/books?id=Ha2...result#PPP1,M1

Thank you! I've been curious, but not enough to actually buy the book.

[DigYourGrave]

Do not be fooled by Google Books!
They will give you some pages and just when its getting to a good bit, they'll cut out like 50 pages and transport you to another incident. The opening is pretty complete up till like page 56 I think. But after that, the story is so fragmented, you'll get so frustrated with not reading chapters in their entirity that you'll just have to finish reading that bloody addictive book and will go out and buy it anyway.. or follow the Amazon link smack bang in the middle of the page you're reading!

[kak125]

Originally Posted by Sorceress

Thank you! I've been curious, but not enough to actually buy the book.

you are so welcome. i was looking around the net for it but didnt want to buy it either.

[kak125]

Originally Posted by DigYourGrave

Do not be fooled by Google Books!
They will give you some pages and just when its getting to a good bit, they'll cut out like 50 pages and transport you to another incident. The opening is pretty complete up till like page 56 I think. But after that, the story is so fragmented, you'll get so frustrated with not reading chapters in their entirity that you'll just have to finish reading that bloody addictive book and will go out and buy it anyway.. or follow the Amazon link smack bang in the middle of the page you're reading!

oh no that sucks! how many pages is the actual book? i really would hate to spend the money on this damm book, lol

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by kak125

oh no that sucks! how many pages is the actual book? i really would hate to spend the money on this damm book, lol

The book has 372 pages, but don't assume that those line up to the google pages. It seems like you are getting more pages than you really are online.

Michele

[kak125]

Originally Posted by michelej1

The book has 372 pages, but don't assume that those line up to the google pages. It seems like you are getting more pages than you really are online.

Michele

i gotcha, i guess it would be too good to be true for them to post the entire book online. if i find it on ebay real cheap or something i might buy it but that wont be anytime soon, LOL! i guess the google will have to do for now.

[David]

I just read part of the Introduction on Google Books, & I think the whole book must be phony baloney. Carol (or her ghostwriter) writes:

"All along the years, if tempers reached flash point during rehearsals, Mick would start to beat insistently & rhythmically on the bass drum, Lindsey would riff, & the band would move as one toward the mikes. ... Everyone in the drafty rehearsal hall would be chilled into silence, even Stevie's constantly giggling band of girl fans. And after the last shudder had died away, someone would ask, as the band members gave each other knowing smiles & got back on course, 'What was that all about?' I'd shrug & say, 'It's our anthem.' "

This is just a stupid rewrite of the exact same part in the cover story in Rolling Stone in 1980. Carol -- just like every other phony baloney plagiarizer & "adapter" who wrote a Fleetwood Mac book -- must be banking on the possibility that we readers never saw these articles back then, or at least don't & won't remember them.

[goldustsongbird]

It's too bad the entire thing isn't on googlebooks. I want to read it but I'd hate to shell out the bucks. I don't want CAH thinking just one more person is interested in her ****ty book.

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by David

I just read part of the Introduction on Google Books, & I think the whole book must be phony baloney.

Well, I wish you'd read the whole book so you could point out some of the discrepancies that others have overlooked. We all know that some things couldn't have happened chronologically like she said -- which doesn't just mean that she got dates wrong, but also means that she got motives for certain conduct wrong in her descriptions. But you are best for seeing that kind of stuff.

Michele

[CADreaming]

Originally Posted by David

I just read part of the Introduction on Google Books, & I think the whole book must be phony baloney. Carol (or her ghostwriter) writes:

"All along the years, if tempers reached flash point during rehearsals, Mick would start to beat insistently & rhythmically on the bass drum, Lindsey would riff, & the band would move as one toward the mikes. ... Everyone in the drafty rehearsal hall would be chilled into silence, even Stevie's constantly giggling band of girl fans. And after the last shudder had died away, someone would ask, as the band members gave each other knowing smiles & got back on course, 'What was that all about?' I'd shrug & say, 'It's our anthem.' "

This is just a stupid rewrite of the exact same part in the cover story in Rolling Stone in 1980. Carol -- just like every other phony baloney plagiarizer & "adapter" who wrote a Fleetwood Mac book -- must be banking on the possibility that we readers never saw these articles back then, or at least don't & won't remember them.

Ha! That's too funny. It wouldn't surprise me at all if she didn't write it. Who's to say it wasn't the same situation as Mick's and the book was written based on old news clippings and the interview CAH gave while sloshed in some bar somewhere...

[trackaghost]

Originally Posted by David

This is just a stupid rewrite of the exact same part in the cover story in Rolling Stone in 1980. Carol -- just like every other phony baloney plagiarizer & "adapter" who wrote a Fleetwood Mac book -- must be banking on the possibility that we readers never saw these articles back then, or at least don't & won't remember them.

Well, yeah, she's no great writer for sure (if it was ghost written I'd be surprised given the quality of her writing) but having read the book I can say for certain the whole thing isn't a big rehash, as previous books about the Mac have been. I'm not saying it's all true or she hasn't ripped off parts, but in a lot of ways I thought she captured what it was like to be part of the Mac machine at the height of their fame (even Bob Welch himself in this thread has said that) better than I've read in previous biographies of the band and there are anecdotes in there I've personally never read anywhere else.
I know it's the hip thing to do on this board to criticise this book, and I'm not saying CAH is a nice person, an honest person or that she should have written the book in the first place, but I really enjoyed it. She definitely paints herself in a good light, as this wide-eyed innocent and uses romantic, flowery language, but even if she has been dishonest I would highly doubt everything she's written is a lie, because, like it or not, the woman was around Fleetwood Mac for years during their biggest successes. To deny she witnessed some debauched stuff is just naive. It's best taken with a pinch of salt but it's still a good read, and dare I say, better than Mick's.

[fleetwoodtrick]

I'm reading the GB thing now. :/ Wow, what a bitch! She's all like 'It's our anthem!'... NO, IT'S NOT. IT'S FLEETWOOD MAC'S ANTHEM. YOU ARE NOT A PART OF THIS BAND.

Well, now that I got that little rant out... She keeps insulting Stevie. Just because Stevie is better than you in every single way humanely possible does not give you the right to bash her in a book. She acts like she won Lindsey over. Well where are ya now? Huh? In your mother's basement?! Lindsey's married now, and it's not to you. (Though it's not to Stevie though. ) We'll see if my opinion changes through out the book.
~Rhiya :/

[Nico]

Originally Posted by fleetwoodtrick

I'm reading the GB thing now. :/ Wow, what a bitch! She's all like 'It's our anthem!'... NO, IT'S NOT. IT'S FLEETWOOD MAC'S ANTHEM. YOU ARE NOT A PART OF THIS BAND.

Well, now that I got that little rant out... She keeps insulting Stevie. Just because Stevie is better than you in every single way humanely possible does not give you the right to bash her in a book. She acts like she won Lindsey over. Well where are ya now? Huh? In your mother's basement?! Lindsey's married now, and it's not to you. (Though it's not to Stevie though. ) We'll see if my opinion changes through out the book.
~Rhiya :/

Does she seriously live in her mother's basement? She's got to be like, what, 55 at this point? That's sorta sad. And I SO agree with you about her generalizations. She acts as though she actually wrote/sang/played in this band just because she was shacking with LB. Pitiful. It's like she was /is trying to live vicariously through their accomplishments and then, to top it off, slams Stevie. I admit she threw in 2-4 nice compliments like "pretty" and whatnot, but I ask you: how does that mean anything when you spend the rest of the time proclaiming her a dimwitted idiot?

I feel bad for Carol, but I have no respect for her. At some point she could have developed a backbone, some character, said f(*^ it and basically did her own thing, but she was way too passive and weak and I'm pretty sure Lindsey didn't have much respect for her other than her arm-candy-ness sadly. Not defending him or his behavior, but behind every strong man there needs to be a strong(er) woman, and Carol was just a lightweight wallflower to me. I know Stevie wasn't and I'm positive Kristen isn't. I can just see that.