Take Another Little Piece of My Heart: A Groupie Grows Up

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Summary: pass on this one
Review: Don't waste your time or money. This poor woman. Failed marriage when her husband Michael DesBarres finally sobered up he is humiliated when she writes about her slutty past in book one. She's like a birthday cake where everyone got a piece, and Michael Des Barres got one that everyone had their hands all over. It all began with her drunkard father who was never home then she began trying to get attention of high powered rock stars who used her up like toilet paper. You'll cry for her son who was plagued with emotional problems. Then you will cry from boredom and her awful writing.

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Summary: Don't Bother with This One!
Review: I'm sure lots of people have bought this book, hoping for more name-dropping, drug-taking fun, and like me have been very disappointed. Des Barres is no writer, and this story of her more settled-down wifely days is duller than dirt. If you enjoy reading an ex-druggie's regrets and lamentations about her husband's continued use (until he too goosesteps the AA way),her abject failure as an actress, and her son's (surprise, surprise!) messed up adolescence, go ahead and waste your money. The only amusing episode in the whole book (or at least the parts I didn't skip over through boredom) concerned Des Barres' infatuation with Sandra Bernhard, but that occupied but a few pages as Bernhard had the sense to avoid entanglement with the self-styled "queen of the groupies." Des Barres doesn't seem to understand that what made _I'm With the Band_ entertaining was that the things she was doing were fun and outrageous. Must be hard knowing all the good parts of your life are over. I hear there's a third book -- think I'll pass.

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Summary: I liked the book!
Review: Sure, it wasn't as wild as her first book, "I'm With The Band: Confessions of a Groupie", but she's starting to grow up! I guess it has to happen! I still enjoyed the book. There's a lot of growth here as a person. She's determined not to be a doormat and starts confronting issues head-on. Like her not so perfect marriage, her father's death, and past relationships. I love her description of Jimmy Page, how she started to see him in an entirely different way. IMO, he was a hypocrite to call her a "bimbo" and trash her book. Pamela is an excellent writer, even if the subject matter isn't quite as tittilating as her first book.