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From Here to the Great Unknown: A Memoir by Lisa Marie Presley, Riley Keough

12 reviews

kkopacetic's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Grief, Abortion, Death of parent, and Alcohol

kelly_e's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

Title: From Here to the Great Unknown
Author: Lisa Marie Presley & Riley Keough
Genre: Memoir
Rating: 5.00
Pub Date: October 8, 2024

T H R E E • W O R D S

Unprecedented • Remarkable • Transcendent

📖 S Y N O P S I S

In 2022, Lisa Marie Presley asked her daughter to help finally finish her long-gestating memoir.

A month later, Lisa Marie was dead, and the world would never know her story in her own words, never know the passionate, joyful, caring, and complicated woman that Riley loved and grieved.

Riley got the tapes that her mother had recorded for the book, laid in her bed, and listened as Lisa Marie told story after story about smashing golf carts together in the yards of Graceland, about the unconditional love she felt from her father, about being upstairs, just the two of them. About getting dragged screaming out of the bathroom as she ran towards his body on the floor. About living in Los Angeles with her mother, getting sent to school after school, always kicked out, always in trouble. About her singular, lifelong relationship with Danny Keough, about being married to Michael Jackson, what they shared in common. About motherhood. About deep addiction. About ever-present grief. Riley knew she had to fulfill her mother’s wish to reveal these memories, incandescent and painful, to the world.

To make her mother known.

💭 T H O U G H T S

I wouldn't consider myself an Elvis connoisseur and cannot say I knew much about Lisa Marie's life either, yet when I saw several glowing reviews for From Here to the Great Unknown, the memoir she started but that would end up being completed by her daughter and published posthumously, I knew I wanted to listen to it.

This is very special audiobook, one unlike any other I've listened to before. The combination of their voices - Julia Roberts reading Lisa's parts, Riley narrating her own additions, and sound clips of Lisa herself - was incredible. It's heartbreaking to think it took her dying for this book to come together in the manner it has.

Lisa's story is so deeply moving, a story marked by extreme fame and overwhelming grief. It adds valuable insight into many aspects of her personal life - her complicated relationship with Priscilla, the effect her father's death had at such a young age, her short-lived marriage to Michael Jackson, her journey in motherhood, her struggles with opioid addiction, and the death of her son.

From Here to the Great Unknown reads like a conversation between mother and daughter both attempting to heal all that has come before. It is deeply personal with a lot of unpacking, yet I am so grateful Riley was able to finish what her mother started. By doing so, she has paid homage to her mother's story and brought to light some of Lisa's biggest strengths. Listening to it was an emotional journey, worth every moment.

📚 R E A D • I F • Y O U • L I K E
• celebrity memoirs
• themes of grief
• mother/daughter relationships

⚠️ CW: death, death of parent, child death, grief, suicide, mental illness, addiction, drug use, drug abuse, alcohol, alcoholism, toxic relationship, suicidal thoughts, child abuse, pedophilia, domestic abuse, emotional abuse, sexual assault, adult/minor relationship, pregnancy, abortion, miscarriage, cursing, infidelity, medical content, pandemic/epidemic

🔖 F A V O U R I T E • Q U O T E S

"This was a huge lesson for me—the only way out is through. You must allow pain in to free yourself from it."

"Grief settles. It's not something you overcome. It's something that you live with. You adapt to it. Nothing about you is who you were. Nothing about how or what I used to think is important. The truth is that I don't remember who I was." 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Grief, Death of parent, and Alcohol

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Sexual assault, Medical content, Abortion, and Pregnancy

Minor: Cursing and Pandemic/Epidemic

arnold_shelby's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative sad fast-paced

4.5

What a beautiful story. I didn't know very much about Lisa Marie Presley before, I knew her son had died, and she had passed a couple of years later. I was completely in awe of her story and loved the way it was told, with Riley adding pieces and with the live voice notes. It was a beautifully produced piece that still left things private for the family by not releasing all of her audio. 

Julia Roberts did a great job with the reading. It was wonderful. 

I was particularly moved by the final two chapters, and found myself smiling and crying to myself reflecting on my own grief journey, as my dad passed around the same time as Ben. 

Beautiful book. Definitely read it as audio! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide

Moderate: Pedophilia and Physical abuse

honeybeewitched87's review

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Incest, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

Minor: Abortion

_rileyroo_'s review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

bethgee's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

4.5

Fascinating and heartbreaking. This poor woman never stood a chance. Julia Roberts reads Lisa’s portion of the audiobook, and the incredibly strong and honest Keough reads her own. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, and Suicide

Moderate: Pedophilia

janekincaid's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative sad fast-paced

5.0

holy shit. I didn’t know much about Lisa Marie and her life going into this. She had such an interesting and heartbreaking life that I can’t even begin to imagine. I absolutely fell in love w both her and Riley and their complicated existence. You could tell that this book really was each of their hearts. So so so sad cried throughout, especially the last third. HIGHLY recommend if you have even the slightest interest. You HAVE to listen to it - I think hearing their voices really added to the story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Sexual violence, Suicide, and Grief

issyd23's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

Unofficial sequel to Pricilla’s Elvis and Me (though I preferred this). Parts written by Riley were heartbreaking. An incredible read, wish LM were still alive and the book was longer 4🎵

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Body horror, Body shaming, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Medical trauma, Stalking, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, and Dysphoria

pdesir0328's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

I cannot recommend From Here to The Great Unknown enough.
Admittedly I didn’t know much about Elvis going into this, outside of the cursory information we all generally know, and having watched the Elvis movie, that was the general extent.
From the preface on I continued to cry, laugh, reflect, hug my mom, and said my prayers.
A harrowing glimpse into the life of America’s Princess, who, at the end of the day, was a little girl just wanting her daddy back. ❤️‍🩹🕊️

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Drug use, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Suicide, and Death of parent

kierstratton's review against another edition

emotional reflective fast-paced

5.0

Memoirs are typically 5 star reads for me, but I loved how this was done. The audiobook featured clips from Lisa Marie's tapes, which was really cool. The whole thing just confirms the horrors that come with fame for some people. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicide, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Medical content, Medical trauma, Abortion, Pregnancy, and Alcohol