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Summary: a slight disappointment....
Review: Let me begin by stating that Sting is a wonderful writer. His vocabulary and the flow of the words is a joy to read. He really gets inside his head and talks about his life. My big disappointment is that the majority of the book focuses on his life up to the point of beginning the Police. On one page the Police are starting to do well and on the next page he jumps ahead several years and ends the story. It was like the book just ended right in the middle of the story. I would like to read the second half of his story.
Rating: 
Summary: Riveting and Thought Provoking
Review: I would expect nothing less from Sting. The words danced off the page and created the most vivid details in my mind. It was almost undescribable and it felt more like I was watching a movie then reading a book. I believe there are certain books in our life that we don't select, but rather, the book picks us. If you find yourself drawn to this book then read it, because it will expand your mind. At times, it will make you laugh out loud (the passage about going parking with his lover and getting his car stuck while his father and date smoke a cig) or cause your heart to ache with regret (when he silently follows his mother's car on his bike and learns her horrible secret). Or it makes you so violently angry (the passage when he is being beaten at school)or it makes your spirits soar (the passage about giving the murdered woman a proper burial). This book takes you through every human emotion and you are fortunate to be let inside the mind of musical and literary genius. If you are a Sting music fan then this book is even more intriguing. The song 'When we Dance' takes on a whole new meaning when he is able to articulate a war scene in graphic detail in the book's opening passage. Before he writes another book, he would do well to read
Neal Walsch's 'Conversations with God Volume 2' this will get rid of his religious guilt and anger. He raises so many questions that can be easily answered in Walsch's book. Overall, a work of literary genius that has awakened and stirred my soul. I hope there are many more to come.
Rating:
Summary: Riveting and Thought Provoking
Review: I would expect nothing less from Sting. The words danced off the page and created the most vivid details in my mind. It was almost undescrible and it felt more like I was watching a movie then reading a book. I believe there are certain books in our life that we don't select, but rather, the book picks us. If you find yourself drawn to this book then read it, because it will expand your mind. At times, it will make you laugh out loud (the passage about going parking with his lover and getting his car stuck while his father and date smoke a cig) or cause your heart to ache with regret (when he silently follows his mother's car on his bike and learns she is having an affair). Or it makes you so violently angry (the passage when he is being beaten at school)or it makes your spirits soar (the passage about giving the murdered woman a proper burial). This book takes you through every human emotion and you are fortunate to be let inside the mind of musical and literary genius. If you are a Sting music fan then this book is even more intriguing. The song 'When we Dance' takes on a whole new meaning when he is able to articulate a war scene in graphic detail in the book's opening passage. Before he writes another book, he would do well to read
Neal Walsch's 'Conversations with God Volume 2' this will get rid of his religious guilt and anger. He raises so many questions that can be easily answered in Walsch's book. Overall, a work of literary genius that has awakened and stirred my soul. I hope there are many more to come.
Rating: 
Summary: O.K. book for a non-fan
Review: My wife really like this book so I read it after her. I am 38 and grew up with the Police, but they weren't my favorite band. And I never got into his solo stuff. I say that because it probably affected my view of the book. Sting can write. He has a great vocabulary and his writing is lyrical. The problem is that Sting is full of himself with an ego the size of Britain. And the stuff that I wanted him to get into, like his affair, or his time with the Police, were not in the book. I guess the book was o.k., but I can't recommend it.
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Summary: One Man's Coming of Age
Review: In my opinion, Sting's autobiographical book Broken Music, is the most original writing that I have had the pleasure of reading in a long time. The moment I read his introduction I decided to buy the book right then and there. I was intrigued because the introduction was written by him and not somebody else and it communicated to me that this book was not about a modern day rock star's search for fame and glory, but it was more of a coming of age as a man.
I like Sting's writing style because he communicates very personal stages of his life that deal with his family that are not very pleasant, but he does it with complete honesty and clarity without letting his emotions get in the way. From reading the passages that deal with his parent's fragile relationship I understood how driven Sting was for his music in spite of his disappointments. Sting lived his own life and followed his own dreams and some of his stories are incredibly funny and some are sad but they are all very descriptive.
I love to read and Sting's book has done a good job of transporting me to his world in a very natural way without exaggeration or over simplification. When a book does that for me then I feel that the author has done his job.
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Summary: Haunting and beautiful
Review: This book is achingly honest, and so beautifully written, it reads like poetry. If you look at Sting's vast lyric's catalog, this is not surprising, yet it is still a lovely revelation of his talent seen from a new perspective. It is vulnerable, without sinking into the realms of pity. Startling sometimes, yet without artifice. Baldly truthful without being arrogant or self-serving. And in the end, it is so very readable.
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Summary: A LIFE WELL TRAVELED
Review: I have to say that "BROKEN MUSIC" is the best entertainment biography I have personally read since "MY FRACTURED LIFE" purely because it doesn't follow the paint by numbers philosophy of "how I became a star and why you should love me" writing that many biographies take. Sting has crafted an actual entertaining book that could be about anyone's life, it just happens to be his. It takes the luster off his stardom and ironically propels him further onto a pedestal in my eyes as a result.
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Summary: Extremely well written
Review: It really should come as no surprise -- though for some reason it did for me -- that Sting would be an exceptionally talented writer. He clearly has a gift with verse, whether 3 minutes in duration or 300 pages in duration.
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Summary: A Great Storyteller
Review: Although I'm not a huge fan of Sting's music, I thought "Broken Music" was an excellent memoir. I admired Sting's honesty and humility throughout the story. His early struggles in the music business were insightful, and I offer him kudos for acknowledging musicians with more talent. My favorite parts of the book were in the end, where he reflects on his life and family. This is where Sting's writing is most powerful. Here's an excerpt from page 300: 'Long periods of separation in my own little family may have been the price of ambition, but they were equally destructive in the long term. I may have wanted to escape the consequences of my parents' dysfunction by living a life on the run, as dramatically different and removed from them as possible, but unconsciously I carried the seed of their unhapiness with me wherever I went. My mother had always looked longingly away from home for her salvation--and I had internalized this in the compulsive aspects of what would become twenty-five years "on the road."' The book basically covers the time period from his birth up to the point of his success. I hope he writes more about his life and continues to entertain us with the use of his favorite word: conundrum.
Rating:
Summary: Excellent autobiography
Review: I have been a fan of Sting's since he began his recording career with The Police. I also love his solo career CD's.
Who would have known that his talent for music would also apply to his talent for an author? I think this book revealed much of what he relates to us through his music and I admire him greatly for letting us know about his childhood, i.e., his mother's affair and his father's emotional distance.
He is a wonderful performer and writer and I recommend this book for anyone who would like to know more about him or anyone interested in well-written, to-the-point autobiographies!
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