Springsteen spent in Japan with his first wife, the actress Julianne Phillips: 'It was all true love and lollipops in the land of the rising sun.' This book’s footnotes are whatever the opposite of scholarly is, many of them completely daft.' Springsteen’s early manager: 'He turned naysayers into fools and made the powerful lick his hand.' And there’s this about a few days Mr. Highlight: 'There are too many hacky sentences. This is a serious problem for a book about an artist who's very much tied to place.ĭwight Garner's review in the New York Times back in November was spot-on. Still, it has a disconnected tone, with Carlin writing about key places in the story (for instance, Asbury Park) with no real description, as if Carlin didn't bother to visit, or visited but left his notebooks in Portland. It's partially redeemed by the author's extensive reporting and the interesting stories Carlin unearths about Bruce's family history, relationships, and on-and-off-and-on relationship with the E Street Band.

Did I mention that the writing is atrocious? It's amateurish hack-work without any apparent editor to save the author from himself. I've never read so many sentence fragments in any book on any subject, even by the pulpiest authors. There's an absolute style or usage clunker on just about every page. This is the worst-written book that I have ever willingly read for this long (nearly finished).

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