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sarasimper's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Death and Grief
Moderate: Drug use, Terminal illness, Pregnancy, and Pandemic/Epidemic
raesansom's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Chronic illness, Death, Drug use, Suicide, Terminal illness, and Grief
avasbookmark's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Drug use
Moderate: Terminal illness and Grief
Minor: Death and Suicide
baerbl's review against another edition
4.25
Moderate: Death, Drug use, Sexual content, Suicide, Terminal illness, and Grief
angiegiannis's review against another edition
4.5
Minor: Death and Grief
garbagebarge69's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Terminal illness
Minor: Grief and Classism
hcnorris's review against another edition
4.5
Moderate: Death, Infidelity, Suicide, and Grief
Minor: Addiction and Sexual content
ilovebooks1967's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Death, Grief, and Abortion
Moderate: Drug use
emabled's review against another edition
4.75
what a beautiful book. a love letter to art, and even more so a literal love letter from patti to robert. their story is rich and encompassing. you feel the need to pay attention while reading, you feel the eminence of robert and patti's significance.
i will say that the countless names, of famous musicians, poets, photographers, producers, etc. was what took me out of the story a bit. i am not well read in hollywood or adjacent culture, especially not that of the 60s-90s, so this had me very confused. there was, most of the time, apt description of these celebrities so i would have enough context to continue, but sometimes it was like i was expected to know these names and histories.
anyway, the prose was gorgeous. patti smith has poetry in her veins. her storytelling is captivating and gorgeous simultaneously, her love for others and theirs for hers so present in her recollections. i did just talk negatively about the constant name dropping, but i will say that it also creates a lovely metaphor: we are who we meet. we are mosaics of everyone we interact with. patti depicts that like a true artist.
Graphic: Death, Drug use, Mental illness, Suicide, Terminal illness, Medical content, Grief, and Pregnancy
Moderate: Body horror and Sexual content
Minor: Addiction
pernillelsk's review against another edition
3.75
Graphic: Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Terminal illness
Moderate: Addiction, Grief, and Pregnancy
Minor: Suicide