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Just Kids by Patti Smith

27 reviews

theinkdrinkerhouse's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

For a nonfiction read, 5 stars. However, I’d dock it a 0.5 on a personal thing due to moments where I had to research people she was referring since there were names I either had no idea or knew of them but not their name. So, it took me out of my immersion at times. But, once again, personal experience issue and not the book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Addiction, Sexual content, and Pregnancy

Minor: Suicide

emabled's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.75

i never read non fiction. i picked this book up purely because a single person said it was good. instinct drove me to read it and i'm very glad i did.

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.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, Mental illness, Suicide, Terminal illness, Medical content, Grief, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Body horror and Sexual content

Minor: Addiction

smarie_03's review against another edition

emotional reflective slow-paced

4.25

This book makes it so abundantly clear that Patti Smith is one ruled by the heart. Smith's emotions rise off the page, seeping out between the margins and aching to be felt by the reader. The true love between Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe is the kind of unflinching, unconditional camaraderie that most could only wish for.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Terminal illness

amelody's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective relaxing sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Chronic illness, Death, Drug abuse, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Grief, and Alcohol

auxrora's review against another edition

inspiring medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use

Minor: Sexual content

chrissysbooks's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

Really enjoyed Patti Smith's biography, I read it without knowing anything about her or Robert. So melancholic but has a deep sense of nostalgia towards a time I wasn't even alive. Beautifully poetic and raw.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use, Homophobia, Sexual content, and Terminal illness

Minor: Pregnancy

tellmemore's review against another edition

reflective slow-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Terminal illness and Medical content

Minor: Kidnapping and Pregnancy

juliamakena's review against another edition

adventurous emotional informative reflective slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness

Moderate: Mental illness and Sexual content

andrewhatesham's review against another edition

emotional funny inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Medical content, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Homophobia, Infidelity, Racial slurs, Racism, Suicide, Blood, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Cultural appropriation, and Alcohol

lindseyhall44's review against another edition

emotional

5.0

To read Just Kids is more than anything to feel. Sadness, inspiration, love, grief. Through the intimate lense of 70’s New York, I have not only garnered information on the incredible lives of Patti Smith and Robert
Mapplethorpe, but discovered something of myself in the process. Through this review I will try to put all of these emotions into words and give this book the justice it deserves.
Just Kids reflects on the profound relationship between the aforementioned artists: Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe. While their friendship is a key focus of the memoir, Patti Smith discovers her own path to art, which will take many forms over the course of her lifetime. It is a privilege to be accepted into her world- for however so briefly- and meander through the memories of a legend.
The beauty of art displayed within the book-romanticized by myself as a wannabe writer- is what almost instantly drew to the story. However, it is Smith’s ability to articulate the complexities of love and human kind which makes Just Kids a new favorite. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, Terminal illness, Grief, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Sexual content, Medical content, and Cultural appropriation