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Summary: Good
Review: Even though you read bad things about how Jean Stein put this book together in Warhol's DIARIES, that doesn't cancel out that it is a rivetting book. Edie was sort of vacuous, but nonetheless interesting in her recklessnes. Although she is surprisingly articulate in her oral passages. More than you would expect after reading about her. This frankly, I don't think, is an inherently interesting story, so Plimpton and Stein are to be commended for the way they put this oral history together. Hollywood has been talking ever since this book was published of making it into a movie, but it hasn't happened yet. I'd like to see it!
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Summary: Spellbound
Review: Fantastic book. Told from a quirky angle, but is able to get opinions pinned down. Shows a neat look into the life of Edie and has some great side plots and stories.
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Summary: BEAUTY AND DECAY
Review: For an all too brief space of time Edie Sedgwick was the bright light of Andy Warhols' insular world of self proclaimed superstars.Beautiful, wealthy and emotionally troubled, her life of excitement and excess withered rapidly into debt, drug abuse and isolation. Discarded by the social glitterati when her instability became increasingly difficult to ignore, Edies' position as the girl of last year and eventual unremarked death stand as a scathing indictment of the fickleness of fame
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Summary: Miss Edie
Review: Her friends were fabulous, she was--- is thre any doubt her BIO would be?!
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Summary: It's like reading about a dream and a nightmare
Review: I am not the 'artsy' type but I found myself watching Basquiat one night. That -and listening to the Velvet Underground a few times got me interested in Andy Warhol a bit. So I looked him up on yahoo and lo and behold, the most beautiful faces kept appearing on screen. It was none other than Edie Sedgwick. I figured she must have frequented the "Factory" of Andy's but still earned a lot of money as a top fashion model, a-la Twiggy.I read the reviews here, though and heard a much different life story. When I finally got and read the book, i realized how lost this girl was. The drugs, the sex, the shopaholism,even pyromania! Still-at the same time-she was such a strong character that right until the end, she was still influencing people and going through a lifestyle that she never could've gotten away with today. Despite her tragedy, her legacy is still there, and still ripe for the picking, so to speak. She still remains my fashion muse...Edie has inspired me to get into the fashion scene in some kind of way. Also, her sense of style-the chandelier earings, falsies, and that amazing hair- is UNMATCHED. I thank her for all that she influenced upon me and other girls that simply cannot be put into words.
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Summary: Subject Unworthy of the Approach
Review: I love oral biographies (and highly recommend, by the way, SAVAGE GRACE and THE TRUE GEN), and EDIE certainly held my attention. But why? Because Edie Sedgwick was such an interesting personality? Hardly. She was a dime-a-dozen degenerate and, of course, a bore. The same is true of all her godawful cronies, including the insufferably peculiar and talentless Andy Warhol. Oral biographies, however -- regardless of the subject matter -- are always riveting. The approach reminds us that we all have memories worth remembering and stories worth telling.
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Summary: Ciao Edie Baby
Review: I read this book when it first came out and still have my tattered, dogeared copy. It is the breathless story of the poor little rich girl who became lost in the fabulous swirl of Warhol's 60's. On the outside, she was Edie, the Youth Quaker, on the inside she was a tragically lost girl who descended into the Stygian depths of fame, drugs, anorexia and tragedy. Each time I read this book, I kept wishing it could have been different somehow, that it could have a happy ending. A must read!
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Summary: Ciao Edie Baby
Review: I read this book when it first came out and still have my tattered, dogeared copy. It is the breathless story of the poor little rich girl who became lost in the fabulous swirl of Warhol's 60's. On the outside, she was Edie, the Youth Quaker, on the inside she was a tragically lost girl who descended into the Stygian depths of fame, drugs, anorexia and tragedy. Each time I read this book, I kept wishing it could have been different somehow, that it could have a happy ending. A must read!
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Summary: Psychology of a tragic heroine
Review: It's funny how a person's childhood experiences can set a person up for success or failure as an adult. However, in the case of Edie Sedgwick, her failures as an adult were definitely unfunny. I loved that this book relied only on quotes from the people who had met/known her. Exceptional research into every stage of Edie's life to uncover people who experienced her in each incarnation and brilliant editing make this an extremely special biography. It is evident that the choices the adult Edie made which were ultimately destructive were foreshadowed by events in her childhood. I don't think it's necessary for you to be fascinated by the scenes Edie lived through to enjoy the book. If you approach this as a psychological study of an individual, it becomes mainstream reading, not just a pop-culture chronicle.
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Summary: You Can't Put It Down
Review: Superbly assembled book by George Plimpton and Jean Stein. A knock out best seller with penetrating psychological insights.
I found the most intriguing sections to be on the Sedgwick family and their ultra high Brahmin Yankee world, especially the father of the clan, Francis Sedgwick, who spent the last part of his life as a surprisingly good sculptor. I particularly liked his work on St. Francis of Assisi.
The Sedgwicks appeared to have an astounding abundance of talent, style, wealth, social position and sheer good looks, along with an equally astounding propensity toward self-destruction.
One wonders if too much of a good thing can be disastrous.
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