Elvis and Me

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Summary: A Great Book
Review: This is a great work of fiction. How can we deny or comply with the words written? It's for Priscilla Presley alone to know if the truth was written or not. But, once you start the book, it's very hard to put down. The material immediately grabs you and hangs on for the remainder of the story. If you are looking for a book that hints at a biography, includes history, shines as a love story, and reads like a best selling fictional book, then this book is for you.

Enjoy!

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Summary: "I will never write a book about me and Elvis"
Review: Those were the famous words of Priscilla Presley after the death of Elvis. I knew it was only a matter of time before she caved in and righted all the wrongs which were quoted in the many books written about her and Elvis preceding her own. It took ten years but she finally wrote this book, Elvis and Me. I was waiting so earnestly for this book because I felt that Priscilla was probably the only one close enough to the 'real' Elvis to tell us the true background details of day to day life and I was right in my opinion. I felt this book was raw! Priscilla didn't mince words or try to coat the truth. She told it as it happened, in true detail. Priscilla starts her book by telling us where she was when the news of her ex-husbands death reached her. Her book then goes back to the beginning. Her first meeting with Elvis in Germany. How Elvis wanted to "see her again" and even ended up visiting her parents to make this happen. Although the book is filled with the many tender moments she spent with Elvis, it's also a shocker when you learn of his drug dependency. A pill to sleep and a pill to wake up! His many 'hanger-on's' who were constantly at his side whenever he was awake. His free spending ways towards friends and family to the almost abusive way he took over Priscilla's mind and body. She lied constantly to her parents we find out. Especially when she was visiting Elvis for vacations. Elvis thought nothing of telling Priscilla's parents one thing then totally doing the opposite. Then there's the fact that he refused to have sex with her until their marriage night and how it completely stopped after Lisa Marie's birth. Just reading inbetween the lines of this book, you can tell how frustrated Priscilla was. She had everything yet her life reached a point of such emptiness and dispair with Elvis that she left him. Priscilla doesn't leave anything out which surprised me a little. She tells of his numerous affairs during their relationship, his strange habits, and just when you think there couldn't possibly be anything else to talk about, she shocks you with yet another revelation. Do I think you should buy this book? Yes! Do I believe everything in the book? No! Either way, I think this book is the closest we will ever get to the true Elvis. Priscilla was the closest to Elvis we will ever get so if you're an Elvis fan, this book should definitely be part of your Elvis library. I think you'll be quite shocked at some of the things you learn. I was!

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Summary: (Beauty and the beast)
Review: When I first read this book I thought what a fairy tail princess life. As I got to the middle it made me feel sad that Priscilla left Elvis and so forth and that he had to go through what he went through which was eating too much and absorbing more drugs. She went through heaven and hell still in her teens and 20's. She then became the most successful woman in the world by opening Elvis Presley Enterprises and turning graceland into the top money making site seeing place. She was and still the most awsome and beautiful creature I have ever seen in my entire life. So read this book!

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Summary: the king and Priscilla
Review: when I read this book, about Priscilla and Elvis....I liked it in a way but in another way,I don't feel the least bit sorry for her because she knew exactly what she was marrying into,she should of thought it over and asked herself......*Am I doing the right thing,marrying the most famous sex symbol in the world?* but she didn't and the fact is she must of cared alot for his money because she asked for alot when she got divorced from him and then wanted more afterwards.So half of me feels sorry but the other half doesn't.

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Summary: the gospel according to priscilla
Review: While parts of this book are interesting-the inside information on Elvis, and their life together, for example-there's just a little too much of "poor,pitiful, long-suffering Priscilla". Apparently she wasn't scarred to badly by the experience-she has shrewdly kept the presley surname and continues to pass herself off as The Widow Presley, despite their divorce and her continuing not-too-believeable claims that she wants to be known for "herself"-not just as Elvis's wife-make that EX wife. This book is ultimately self-congratulatory and predictable. Pass.

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Summary: GOOD READ, BUT NOT ENTIRELY TRUTHFUL
Review: While this book is good in the way that it gives a more intimate account of Elvis, I think Priscilla tried to go out of her way to make it sound like a Disney book instead of a true account of her life with Elvis.

Many people wonder why her parents let her move in with Elvis at such a young age, always siting money, but I think the reasons are not entirely financial. Priscilla moved in with Elvis in early 1963 when she was 17 nearly 18 (not 16 like she portrays in the book). She turned 18 in May of 1963 and by law, anyone is considered an adult when they turn 18 and she could have moved in with him then whether her parents liked it or not. Her parents probably figured it was worth keeping the peace to let her go a couple months early.

Another irritating part of the story is how Priscilla insists that Elvis' proposal of marriage "was his decision and his alone." This simply isn't true. Elvis has no desire to get married and would have strung her along for another 20 years if he could. It was only Capt. Beaulieu's threat of going public with Elvis' relationship with an underaged girl that prompted him to get married.

I believe that Priscilla was indeed a virgin up until her wedding day, simply because Elvis has such bizarre ideas of sex. One of his bodyguards wrote in his book that Elvis did confide to him that while he and Priscilla "fooled around", they did not engage in intercourse.

And Priscilla certainly glossed over her extra-marital affairs, that's for sure. While it's completely understandable why she would have sought out someone after Elvis basicially abandoned her in pursuit of his bachelor life-style, she should have been honest about it. Her affair with Mike Stone had been going on for 2 years before she actually left Elvis; so why didn't she say so? She insinuated that it only happened shortly before she left Elvis.

Be that as it may, this is still a good book to read. I respect Priscilla for being a far better business woman than what Elvis every was. While a great entertainer, he was self-centered, violent, emotionally immature, mentally unstable and just plain weird.........no wonder she left him.


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Summary: Elvis gets chewed up and spit out!
Review: Who among us would want to have our image and empire run by our cheating ex spouse? Elvis was no saint, and I don't blame Priscilla for getting out or straying when he wouldn't make love to her. The reasons why he shut her out is what she leaves out of the book. CHILD BRIDE tells a far more accurate version of how Elvis' little experiment with her backfired and he was forced into marriage by Priscilla's step father, who threatened to go public with the nature of their relationship if he didn't seal the deal with the marriage he promised. Elvis was still going to back out until the Colonel put his foot down and made Elvis get on one knee. Some guy that step father is; who would let their 15 year old daughter move in with a movie star? It's like those parents that send their kids to Neverland Ranch hoping for a big pay day. The Bealieu family's exploitation of Elvis has been a sin that continues, and she has seemingly passed her hard feelings along to Lisa Marie.

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Summary: Angry and Brutal To the Max!
Review: Wow! Written after his death--before Elvis became the billion dollar "Cash Cow" that he is today--the author had no idea that the King would go on and become even bigger after death! The ex-wife obviously thought "Elvis was over" and that it was the beginning of her career.The book has got to be the coldest and cruelest rip off of the world's greatest entertainer. Her anger is so great that even after Elvis' death,the book was like she was trying to saw his coffin in two! How do true Elvis fans stand it that she is profiting so greatly from someone she so blantantly profaned to the world? The rape accusation--was that really necessary? She pictured Elvis as a blundering, drug crazed, frigid, psycho, sexual predator. I'm offended and the dead can't defend themselves.Obviously, the greatest tragedy in his life was his marriage to her. Shocking and very sad.