BY Just Kids

so so so so good

In good condition!

Patti smiths writting is quite different from what you would expect after having listened to her music for so long. You can notice she doesnt tell the stories in detail and has her privacy in mind but this, for me, leaves the impression that what IS being said is genuine. I am not sure if she has a ghost writer, but I dont really think so. Love the frank, almost innocent, manner in which the book has been written thus far, I am almost 2/3rd into it. The seller! The book did not arive by the time it should have, but the shop sent another, then both of them arrived at the same time, and the seller gave me the option of a refund or a big discount for late delivery etc. A great shop, to be fair. Sent the extra book back and refused the discount, Patti would be might proud.

Tolles Buch, hab es mit Freude gelesen

Je ne l'ai pas encore fini

have been really excited for this one! it came in very good condition and also arrived one day earlier than the ordered said!:)) super happy with my this book:)

Patti Smith forged a formidable reputation from her performance on stage + in front of the camera whenever she gave interviews. But behind the Rebel Yell lay a person of incredible warmth , good humour + generosity of spirit. As she grows up in the counter-culture we hear all about her adventures , encounters + formative influences. Rock fans will love her memories of chatting with Jimi Hendrix just days before his death or the night she spent consoling Janis Joplin when yet another man let her down. If you adore the beatnick writers then you'll be intrigued to learn one of them once mistook her for a pretty boy + tried to pick her up ! But if Just Kids has anything to teach us it is surely that Love comes in many different forms. And at that time the Love of her young Life was Robert Mapplethorpe. Only later did she discover he was homosexual + quite willing to sell his body to men for sex. But he then developed an interest in Bondage + Sadomasochism which he maintained was entirely artistic but poor Patti had her doubts. Yet the bond ( ! ) between them remained as strong as ever. Their Love had undergone a strange alchemical change : now they were like brother + sister . Even when Robert was dying from AIDS an older , more mature + now married Patti was still by his side. She'd had her first child with Fred Sonic Smith + her second was on its way...living within her as Robert lay dying... As Patti so beautifully puts it : We were as Hansel + Gretel + we ventured out into the black forest of the world. There were temptations + witches + demons we never dreamed of + there was splendour we only partially imagined. No one could speak for these 2 young people nor tell any truths of their days + nights together. Only Robert + I could tell it. And , having gone , he left the task to me ...