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Elvis and Me

Elvis and Me

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: What a great book
Review: I have never really been an Elvis fan (persay) but My mother was. I was very young when Elvis passed away, so he really was not an Icon for me. However, my mother had this book and I thought I would give it a try. I started the book at about 9:00 in the morning and I could not put it down. I was finished with the book by 3:00 in the afternoon. I loved reading the fairytale love affair and knowing the secrets behind the love and marriage. This is a must see book for any Elvis fan, and even if you are not a die-hard fan, I would recommend it. It was really good.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Chilling story of life with Elvis
Review: I have read the book and have seen the film a dozen times... Chilling is all I can say... One minute he would be sweet and the next he would be a bully and sleeping around. Priscilla tells it from her POV. I came away with seing Elvis as 2 people.

1. Loving and caring for other people.
2. A drug addict

I really feel for her... She often tried to get him to quit the drugs, but I think that something was eating away at him... I often wondered what happened to him during the last years of his life.

I would screen this book before giving this to younger Elvis fans. I think that this is for 15 and up. Paints a very dark picture of the king....

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Good Book
Review: I haven't finish reading my book yet but so far I think i is really good. I can really relate to her liking an older guy/ singer. I personally wish what happen to her with Elvis would happen to me with Usher. Also i can relate moving around a lot because my dad is in the army. Anyways i really like this book so far.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Extremely insightful
Review: I love Elvis! This book rocks

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The Best Elvis Biography Ever !
Review: I onley got this book 3 days ago and have already started to read chap 4 they are a lot of Elvis books written but most contain lies,rumors or opinions witch this book does not have, I am not saying every little thing is true but has a lot more truth in it than any other book. lots of people studied Elvis and wrote a book but you cant beat living with him and writing a book about him.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: sharon's review
Review: I ordered this book thinking it would be wonderful.What a disappointment!I have nothing but respect for Priscilla Presley,but this book read like a trashy romance novel.Some of the stories she tells just do not seem to be the whole truth.I would advise people not to buy this book as it is pretty much fiction.Instead I think people should read Child Bride as it was was truthful and gets to the bottom of alot of things,and has interviews with several people who knew both Elvis and Priscilla.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: One-Sided Story
Review: I originally read Elvis and Me about 10 years ago and it left me with many questions concerning Priscilla's intentions. Was this book really intended to tell the whole raw honest truth of the king and his bride OR to gloss Priscilla's image and leave her with a whiter than white reputation ? I decided for myself that the second reason was probably the truth. I could not help but feel that Priscilla used this book to boost her image and to provoke pity onto herself. This , in my opinion, was a PR motivated move by Priscilla Presley. I could not help but feel that she still has some resentment inside her for the years that she spent in Elvis' shadow and this clearly comes across in the pages. She has stated in interviews that she needed to "tell the truth" for the sake of her daughter, however in reference to the so called "rape" section (at the end of their marriage), what effect would this have on your child..and to tell the whole world ??, I am sorry but I feel that nobodys best interests were at heart except Priscilla's. I felt that most of the "story" in this book was what Priscilla wanted you to believe and I did come away with many many questions and doubts. I have recently read Child Bride and these very questions and doubts that I had were unbelievably covered in this book. I really am sorry to say, that Child Bride, with its much researched evidence and reliable scources, seems to be the accurate version (in my opinion) of events and the truth, surrounding Elvis and Priscilla's relationship.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Good insightful story.
Review: I originally saw the movie a few years ago and came across this book and had to get it. While it is not the "whole story" of their lives together, its a good look at it. The book is only just over 300 pages and that just cannot cover 14 years or whatever.
There are such mixed reviews and this book is compared to so many other stories that I have not read. But I still liked this book. No way does it tell everything, who would write a book that gave away all their memories and left nothing sacred for you to look back on?
One thing, after reading the reviews for this book I have to say that alot of people are sad. Elvis was with Pricillia for years. She was his only wife. Come on, there was no way he hated her or was pushed into anything. Give it up. Actions speak louder then words and all that. I do not think she bashed Elvis with this book. I think she told her story, and maybe she did embelish it a little. Who is to say? Who else was there but them to know what happened? She showed that she loved him enough to live how he wanted her to. How she tried to be everything he wanted. It also shows how Elvis brought her into his life and how her transformation happened.
Pricilla's writing is easy to follow and identify with. Obisouly it is going to be a one sided story, as Elvis is dead. Common sence, why would a superstar be with and marry a woman who he supposedly did not want to be with when he could have had anybody? Why did he not marry Ann Margret if she was his great love? Why did he keep going back to Pricilla if what he really wanted to do was let her go? Be real and let go of jealously.
I think that this shows a side of Elvis that no one would have known about if Pricilla did not share it. I fell in love with that side of him. Even if he was a little weird. Which he was.
I think that this is a good story and gives you a peak into Elvis's life from a point of view that no one else has. It is a good book and makes you want everything to work out. Only you know that it wont. I think that Pricilla was a lucky woman who had one hell of a life with Elvis. A life that many others wished for themselves.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Give me, Give me
Review: I read Ms. Presley's book and I felt for her when she was only 14 and still a kid. Yet,as I read the book and seen how she said she loved him and how much her parents loved her. I had a very hard time accepting that anyone in the book really knew what it was to love another person. It was a book about lust of the flesh, disrespect for each other and what each self-centered individual could get off the other. More to say what they could get by being associated and in favor with Mr. Elvis Aaron Presley. The man became a bully, drug addict, prevert and why, because he did not know who he was anymore. He only knew what was expected of him financially and that all who said they loved him didn't have the guts to stand up and tell him that money was not the most important thing in the world to them he was;that he needed to take time and get his life pulled together. He was a fianancal product and nothing more to the people he was associated with. He is as much to blame for his bad life and death as all the others. The people closest to him should have united and stood their ground and gave Mr. Presley the strength he needed from them to better his life. Mr. Parker should have gotten him better acting roles. I am writing a paper on why Mr. Presley behaved the way he did. I am trying to get inside his head, to understand him as a person.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: I Really Liked This Book!
Review: I read this book when I was a teenager and I loved it, one of the best autobiographies ever written. It was very insightful, touching and sad! I highly recommend this wonderful book!


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