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Beatles
This is a hardcover "coffee table" type book with a dust jacket.
308 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2010
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October 4, 2020
Good photos coupled with a succinct chronology of the Beatles' history make this book fun to read. It could use better editing, as it gets repetitive in spots, but overall, it's a nice review of the band's career, especially for older fans remembering the days of Beatlemania.
June 8, 2019
It seems easy to give this book — really any book about The Beatles — a pass. Even the worst book about The Beatles is still a book about The Beatles, and the subject matter alone, if you’re a fan anyway, can make up for a lot. But this book does not deserve a pass. It doesn’t deserve a pass because at its price point ($14.99) and its length (176 mostly picture-filled pages), IglooBooks’ “The Beatles” is clearly aimed at the uninitiated, the neophyte, the youngster who’s heard about the band, wants to learn more, and is hooked by the colorful cover’s promise of “All you ever wanted to know about the Fab Four.”
The problem is, this poorly written, poorly edited, and poorly structured book — equal parts junior high annual, teen beat magazine, and page six gossip fodder — is far from the first place anyone should be learning about John, Paul, George, and Ringo. And if, like me, you’re far beyond a casual fan, the book is little more than one eye-rolling, head-shaking what-the-fuck.
Some of my favorite moments: a photo of a smiling George captioned, “George Harrison burns the candle at both ends in 1967;” the illuminating one-sentence paragraph, “Culturally, The Beatles made waves;” and the last words the book has to say on its subject, a quote from Pulp’s Jarvis Cocker that is neither moving nor profound, “I love The Beatles. I haven’t named any kids after them but I still really love them. They were the first group that I was ever properly aware of. In my early teens I would sometimes stay in and listen to the radio all day in the hope that I would catch a song by them that I’d never heard before and be able to tape it on my radio-cassette player.”
Wow. More definitive words were never spoken. At least the pictures were good.
The problem is, this poorly written, poorly edited, and poorly structured book — equal parts junior high annual, teen beat magazine, and page six gossip fodder — is far from the first place anyone should be learning about John, Paul, George, and Ringo. And if, like me, you’re far beyond a casual fan, the book is little more than one eye-rolling, head-shaking what-the-fuck.
Some of my favorite moments: a photo of a smiling George captioned, “George Harrison burns the candle at both ends in 1967;” the illuminating one-sentence paragraph, “Culturally, The Beatles made waves;” and the last words the book has to say on its subject, a quote from Pulp’s Jarvis Cocker that is neither moving nor profound, “I love The Beatles. I haven’t named any kids after them but I still really love them. They were the first group that I was ever properly aware of. In my early teens I would sometimes stay in and listen to the radio all day in the hope that I would catch a song by them that I’d never heard before and be able to tape it on my radio-cassette player.”
Wow. More definitive words were never spoken. At least the pictures were good.
January 21, 2019
The only reason I give it two stars is because of the subject matter and the photos. This book reads like it was written by a junior high school yearbook club. Apparently pruf reeding is only a uggestion. And who really needs to do fact checking when you’re writing about an internationally known subject. This book is full of grammatical and punctuation errors. It’s a shame that such a beautiful subject was treated with such disregard. Maybe it’s because I’m such a Beatles fan, and also a Communication major, that I couldn’t get past that and let it go.
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