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This book is a great snapshot of its time and place in history. Imagine walking into your "local" and finding Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, Country Joe and the Fish, and Jimi Hendrix all in there eating shrimp and downing pitchers of sangria and bottles of tequila. It was in the late sixties and early seventies when artists of different codes all seemed to be in and around the Hotel Chelsea and became the group of people Patti mixed with.
I knew of Patti Smith as a vocalist in a band,but not ...more
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I'm rating this on how well it is written. I'm going to be brutally honest. Given the plethora of well written memoirs by famous and not famous people, this just doesn't hold up. (Name-dropping) Period. I give her credit to keeping her promise to Robert. I respect their love for each other. It's really an amazing and cool thing. But that,in itself, does not give credence to the quality of the book. (Name-dropping) Repetition, endless detail of her outfits (probably from a diary) and well, name-d
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This book is one of the best books I have ever read. It is about Patti Smith, the singer and writer, and her relationship with Robert Mapplethorpe, the artist. It also is about the start of her musical career and other artists the she met and/or collaborated with. It is very interesting to read and I recommend it to everyone interested in art, music and of course Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe. You won't be disappointed after reading it, but you might think 'Hey, didn't know that much about
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What a life!
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