Marilyn's Last Words: Her Secret Tapes and Mysterious Death

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Summary: If it's legit - then this book is disturbing...
Review: ...I never review books on Amazon, but for this one, I just had to. I'm a huge Monroe fan, have been for many years. When you've read enough books and watched enough docs, you understand this woman was extremely complex and not an angel, but another wonderous human being with extraordinary talents. However, I picked this book up at my local book store because the curiousity got the best of me. First of all, if these transcripts are legit from Monroe's last tapes to her psychiatrist then I feel guilty reading something so personal that was never meant to be heard. And then on top of that angry at the publishers/writers who took this private info and made a book out of it (tho they claim they did this to clear Greenson and let Marilyn's voice be heard to prove she was in no state that would have caused suicide). Regardless, it's private info and quite frankly - disturbing at that. Like I said, i've read some hard core truths about Monroe but it never tarnished my thoughts of her as woman, as a human being...but in these transcripts (and i'll say again IF they are real) this is a woman who truly refers to herself in 3rd person ALOT, much more than the expected or norm, a person who goes on about enemas (such a private topic I can't believe they published it and i'm saddened I gave in and read it), a woman who is obsessed with Shakespeare, obsessed with many different things, obsessed with the Kennedy's and how to "break it off". I've read transcripts from other interviews with her and in my opinion, this "voice" of MM in this book (to me), does not match up. However that said, it's not totally unrelated to what MM might have sounded like. It's the voice of a woman who sounds like she is spliting in two, cracking straight down the middle. My heart broken, I wish I'd never picked the darn book up. I'm promptly throwing it in my garbage can this evening...

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Summary: I don't know where to begin...
Review: I made it a point to come and write a review for all considering this book. Mr.Smith, the author is an English writer (a far left American hating writer I might add) who has to bring up his love for Marilyn and the Kennedy's along with his contempt for any American politics. This book was to make his case known, not so much to remember Marilyn. I feel sorry for her, wherever she is to have to be remembered with some of this trash. Take what few facts are in this book, most is heresay and speculation, but enjoy Marilyn's few chapters of her tapes and what those close to her have said. I don't doubt her murder, but the CIA? That's laughable and it's more likely that I did it, and I was born twenty years after her death.

Mr. Smith also suggests the CIA, mob, and the Kennedy's all bugged the house...wouldn't one have run into the other's bugs? The facts of the crime scene are intriguing although no questions are really answered. Smith claims to have American gov't officials on his side saying his sources are credible but cites no one. Not to mention Smith lumping Marilyn with liberals, although there's nothing wrong with that, he has little to no proof except she gave money to the poor. What that has to do with anything I'm not sure...He also rants for a Chapter on McCarthyism - he clearly has little knowledge on the subject. It's very irritating. Marilyn, despite this I hope you can rest in peace.