nayroo2002 said:

SantanaMaitreya said:

Genesia said: That's the great thing about books: you can put them away until you find the time to read them of until you're in the right mood.

Since the late 80's i had the same train of thought about music mags.

i had collected an enourmous amount of RS, Spin, Musician, Guitar, etc.

Just last week i put them all (except for Prince related ) in the dumpster.

Now the 'Sign O The Times' book is sitting there with nowhere to go and it breaks my heart

cuz i just wanted the music.

i'm sure 'The Beautiful Ones' is nice to glance at, though.

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THANKS FOR THAT HANDWRITING BREAKDOWN, MARGOT

That's the very reason I'm hesitant to spend $180 on SOTT Deluxe. I don't much care for booklets and such. Just want the music. And I really have nowhere to put them.

I read this in a few hours on the bus, it's hardly a commitment.

The book is padded with a ton of visuals due to the nature of the book so I found myself finishing the meat and bones of it before I knew I was close to the end.

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Read it twice.

One fast time,

and a second time to even take notes.

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I like the pictures a lot.

I often take a look again.

They look so unreal sometimes, but nevertheless great to get an idea of the guy's young life.

Something we've never seen that close before.

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wilmer said:

The Prince pages I enjoyed. The rest of it written by what's his name was filler.

I thought the opposite. I found Dan's words on how the project came to be a lot more interesting than Prince going on about his childhood. I would have been more into reading Prince's words about when his career started.

mb71 said:

wilmer said:

The Prince pages I enjoyed. The rest of it written by what's his name was filler.

I thought the opposite. I found Dan's words on how the project came to be a lot more interesting than Prince going on about his childhood. I would have been more into reading Prince's words about when his career started.

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Same here.

There's also an audio book done by Dan.

I recommend it.

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mb71 said:

wilmer said:

The Prince pages I enjoyed. The rest of it written by what's his name was filler.

I thought the opposite. I found Dan's words on how the project came to be a lot more interesting than Prince going on about his childhood. I would have been more into reading Prince's words about when his career started.

I guess P thought he had more time.

Margot said:

No judgement-just surprised so many fams did not read the book after purchasing??

Me too; he shows his great sense of humor in his writing. Really, really too bad and sad he didn't get to finish the book. The pictures are great too.

The777Man

CaseysCousin said:

I read it. I got it as a present. I thought it was an obvious cash in. The only interesting part was the few pages of his memoir It was padded out massively. They should have saved all the photos etc for a deluxe set book.

I think the publisher wanted the 2.5 million dollar advance returned. The family/Estate said no and this is the book they came up with...

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sro100 said:

When I bought it I read a few pages...and put it away.

The Princespeak and such proved hard to get through.

I'm glad I have it though.

Anyone else?

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I haven't finished the book and I've had for nearly a year. I just hadn't got back to reading it but would like to. One thing I have skipped is the part with his hand writing. I can't make out what he's writing. I thought my handwriting was bad. I was happy to get my copy at Half Price Books brand new and paid the price I wanted to pay.

TurnItUp said:

sro100 said:

When I bought it I read a few pages...and put it away.

The Princespeak and such proved hard to get through.

I'm glad I have it though.

Anyone else?

[Edited 10/15/20 14:41pm]

I haven't finished the book and I've had for nearly a year. I just hadn't got back to reading it but would like to. One thing I have skipped is the part with his hand writing. I can't make out what he's writing. I thought my handwriting was bad. I was happy to get my copy at Half Price Books brand new and paid the price I wanted to pay.

The handwritten pages are typed as well...They are in the book.