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Summary: Wonderful!!
Review: This book is a super autobiographical story of the greatest legend in country music. He tells his life story in much the way that he writes songs, relaxed, heart-felt, and very honest. This book is a page-turner and a must have! I only wish I could get it autographed.
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Summary: Very interesting book
Review: This is an interesting fairly quick read about the life of Merle Haggard. The book contains a lot of insights into his passions and life.
Yet it does leave the reader a bit confused, in part due to the constant chronological mixing. There's a lot of self-reporting of his actions, but Merle leave almost all the analysis of his actions to others. Thus on one page we read how he's always valued "honesty," mixed in with accounts of burglaries and stolen cars. The analysis pretty much boils down to statements of "remorse" and "bad decisions."
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Summary: Still love the music
Review: This is possibly the worst book Ive ever read. The book is done in seventh grade grammer about a not too bright person. It has very little to say about anything other than His rambling thru life from one scrape to another due to inmaturity and bad judgement. Merle mentions He was taken advantage of by Managers, friends, record producers, etc; Well......... I think He was taken for another ride by the author of this book! But.... still love the music !
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Summary: Get to know Merle Haggard, you'll never forget him!
Review: Through the hobo jungles to performing at the white house. Merle Haggard has lived a life most of us only read about or see on the big screen. Born in a boxcar, he lost his father at the age of nine. This sent him on a downhill fall that landed him inside San Quentin Penitentiary at twenty years old. Upon his release from prison he was determined to make a go in the music business. After forty one number one singles and millions of dollars (most of which was sqaundered away) to his current happy home with wife number five and there two children. Merle Haggard has done it all.
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Summary: VERY DISAPPOINTING
Review: Years back, I read Merle's first biography, "Sing Me Back Home". This was very in-depth and interesting; which I found this book totally opposite of. There are parts of this book which you know are Merle's words, and others, which are clearly Tom Carter's. There, it's an inconsistency.Merle chooses to delete certain information which he reveals in his first biography, so therefore, it really isn't a secret. Also, some of the language used in this book is deplorable. The point can be well made with those words omitted. Overall, I prefer his first book. While that one only extended to a certain point of his life, it was better-written and held the reader's interest much better. This book should've been written the same way, and picked-up where the other one left off. Instead, it rehashes old facts which we already know.
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