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Summary: Grand Memories
Review: This is a great book to read if you are a U2 fan. Having seen U2 six times, and seeing some of those shows with the author, I related to a lot of the stories. Dianne beautifully describes her surroundings, and I relived some great moments in U2 concert-going history! Grand memories, indeed!
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Summary: U2Fan in Excess
Review: This is a nicely written book by a fan, recording, in a daily diary form, her following of U2 through three world tours (Joshua Tree through Pop). I've considered myself a fan of U2 since their Boy album, yet have never seen them in concert. From the author's description of the concert scene I imagine I'd do well to stick with videos. It seemed almost ironic to me, that someone professing to appreciate the earnest message of U2's music would be willing to spend what could only amount to hundreds of thousands of dollars over ten year's time just to satiate an obsession with seeing this band. Excessive? yes and embarrassing too. And while I must confess to enjoying some of her escapades overall the book left me with the same sick feeling I get when I read some of the U2 message boards online. It's just all a little too much.
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Summary: A Fan's Delight!
Review: Well written, run to read and entertaining, this book by Dianne Beeaff, really connected to me. In a fresh, and personal way, it shows just how a great band like U2 evolves over time. With a passionate and perceptive look at both their music and their performance. Beeaff's book is a worthy witness to the growth of this remarkable band into the powerful, imposing and relevant musical force it is today. Any true fan wants to get every perspective they can on U2, from every angle possible, and this book offers that fan a personal perspective missing from the other fine, source materials.
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Summary: Only a fan can do that!!!
Review: What can I say? There's some great stuff written about U2. "A Grand Madness" is definitely one of them. And it's different. When I first read it I was in my second year of fandom - when the one thing I still hadn't experienced was seeing my favourite band in concert.
"A Grand Madness" took me on a journey ... not quite like witnessing U2 life, but the closest to this adventure I could get. And it wasn't only about the concerts. I felt like Dianne Beeaffs "life on the road" experiences could have been mine; they seemed to express my own engagement, my own dedication to this wonderful band, my own feelings about the music and the people behind, all the feelings that only a fan can have.
Now that I finally *have* seen U2 on tour (and found some great new friends along the way) I feel even more related to this extraordinary book than before. Because this is the best thing a fan can experience. A Grand Madness indeed.
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Summary: Only a fan can do that!!!
Review: What can I say? There's some great stuff written about U2. "A Grand Madness" is definitely one of them. And it's different. When I first read it I was in my second year of fandom - when the one thing I still hadn't experienced was seeing my favourite band in concert.
"A Grand Madness" took me on a journey ... not quite like witnessing U2 life, but the closest to this adventure I could get. And it wasn't only about the concerts. I felt like Dianne Beeaffs "life on the road" experiences could have been mine; they seemed to express my own engagement, my own dedication to this wonderful band, my own feelings about the music and the people behind, all the feelings that only a fan can have.
Now that I finally *have* seen U2 on tour (and found some great new friends along the way) I feel even more related to this extraordinary book than before. Because this is the best thing a fan can experience. A Grand Madness indeed.
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Summary: Save your money
Review: Where to begin? Well, in short, the author seems a bit out of touch with reality & I honestly have a really hard time believing many of her stories. The silliest one being that she & her groupie friends had given some flowers to one of the band's road crew to pass along. A month or so later, her friend just happens to run into Bono & asks if he got them. "Those were from you"? he says. Ummmm... with all the things bands go through on the road, city after city turning into a blur, not to mention the loads of flowers they receive, this little tale just doesn't seem likely.The reports of the band's wardrobe for each show get old *very* quickly, as did what the author and her friends ate for dinner each night and where they ate it! She mentions over and over again that her favorite song is "Bad" and each performance the Edge gives is "the best one she's ever seen!" Grammatical and spelling errors run high in this book. Did anyone edit this before it went to print? I know that nobody did any fact checking, because it's full of factual errors. Maybe I'm being a little harsh... I'm assuming it is supposed to be a little diary after all, but if she's such a big fan of the band, shouldn't she know where Adam Clayton is originally from? This book really isn't worth the money, just a laugh or two.
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Summary: No wonder it's shrinkwrapped!!!
Review: Your money can be spent better on more insightful U2 books. In this book the author does an excellent job of keeping detailed records of her journeys and the little "run-in's" with the band.(Or as I like to call them "stalking sessions") She also does an excellent job of boring me. This book for me was the equivilant of sitting at my cousin's house watching an 6-hour slide show of his vacation to Delaware. I love U2 as much as the next fan but she goes a little overboard in the way she speaks of Bono. I don't care what Bono was wearing on March 9, 1992! Or what HER interpation of the music is. How about telling me what Bono thinks about his music, life, sports, religion etc..... Oh she can not do this because she is a physco fan. It almost makes me embarrased to call myself a die hard U2 fan.
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Summary: Diary of a mad woman!
Review: Your money can be spent better on more insightful U2 books. In this book the author does an excellent job of keeping detailed records of her journeys and the little "run-in's" with the band.(Or as I like to call them "stalking sessions") She also does an excellent job of boring me. This book for me was the equivilant of sitting at my cousin's house watching an 6-hour slide show of his vacation to Delaware. I love U2 as much as the next fan but she goes a little overboard in the way she speaks of Bono. I don't care what Bono was wearing on March 9, 1992! Or what HER interpation of the music is. How about telling me what Bono thinks about his music, life, sports, religion etc..... Oh she can not do this because she is a physco fan. It almost makes me embarrased to call myself a die hard U2 fan.
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