BartVanHemelen said:

Kinda surprising that Neal Karlen was praising Kim as someone who "accurately captured Prince's voice" towards the end of this podcast: https://www.minneapolis.o...e-fifteen/ .

I enjoyed Kim's interviews on You Tube and was looking forward to reading her book.

"I think the thing is that anyone who says that they know more than 15 percent of what his life was like is lying. He made it that way—no one knew." - Neal Karlen

http://mspmag.com/arts-an...the-press/

Maybe Kim hasn't read the book either and we should be questioning Andrea Williams.

rogifan said:

pinkcashmere23 said:

I haven't seen that many of his associates supporting the book. I did see Shelby's name pop up on one of Kim's FB lives during the Celebration. The one when she toured the Riley Creek tunnel. Shelby posted a positive comment and Kim gave her a shout out so I assume that she supports Kim as well as the book.

I don’t think we an assume it means she supports the book. As far as I know she’s not out there telling people to buy it. My guess is she probably hasn’t even read it. Shelby is positive person who doesn’t seem to have a negative bone in her body. I can’t see her publicly speaking out against anyone. Looks like Funkenberry is back and will be podcasting again. I’ll be curious to know if he says anything about the book.

I think that she might have said something about Kim's book in one of her recent lives but I'm not certain. I have watched so many different videos from everyone the past week. I'll have to go back and watch hers again because I'm curious if she did. If she did,I suppose she may have just been showing support for Kim without even reading the book because as you said,she is a positive person that is loving towards everybody. I listened to Dr Funk's podcast and he mentioned there are people out there that are now exaggerating their time with Prince and the length of time they worked for him and I wondered if he was thinking about Kim.

pinkcashmere23 said:

rogifan said:

pinkcashmere23 said:

rogifan said:

pinkcashmere23 said:

I haven't seen that many of his associates supporting the book. I did see Shelby's name pop up on one of Kim's FB lives during the Celebration. The one when she toured the Riley Creek tunnel. Shelby posted a positive comment and Kim gave her a shout out so I assume that she supports Kim as well as the book.

I don’t think we an assume it means she supports the book. As far as I know she’s not out there telling people to buy it. My guess is she probably hasn’t even read it. Shelby is positive person who doesn’t seem to have a negative bone in her body. I can’t see her publicly speaking out against anyone. Looks like Funkenberry is back and will be podcasting again. I’ll be curious to know if he says anything about the book.

I think that she might have said something about Kim's book in one of her recent lives but I'm not certain. I have watched so many different videos from everyone the past week. I'll have to go back and watch hers again because I'm curious if she did. If she did,I suppose she may have just been showing support for Kim without even reading the book because as you said,she is a positive person that is loving towards everybody. I listened to Dr Funk's podcast and he mentioned there are people out there that are now exaggerating their time with Prince and the length of time they worked for him and I wondered if he was thinking about Kim.

Ooh interesting.

rogifan said:

Prince’s Friend gives the book 1 to 1 1/2 stars. Ouch. https://youtu.be/5aPzx0E647Y

I watched that. I appreciate his honesty.

rogifan said:

Prince’s Friend gives the book 1 to 1 1/2 stars. Ouch. https://youtu.be/5aPzx0E647Y

Out of 10, I'm sure.

rogifan said:

rogifan said:

Kim’s book is marked down to $8 on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/Di...1-fkmrnull

Already??

Do you know that some people who pre-ordered their books from Kim still have not received them?

PennyPurple said:

rogifan said:

Kim’s book is marked down to $8 on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/Di...1-fkmrnull

Already??

Do you know that some people who pre-ordered their books from Kim still have not received them?

That's not a good thing

luv4u said:

PennyPurple said:

Already??

Do you know that some people who pre-ordered their books from Kim still have not received them?

That's not a good thing

Yeah they are asking her on FB and she hasn't been answering them back....

PennyPurple said:

onlyforaminute said:

Well i ended up with 2 books. :confused: oh well. I'm waiting to here about parts 2&3.

Wow.. wonder how that happened. I'm glad you received a book though I'm still waiting and I contributed to the crowdfunding last October. She completely underestimated the scope of this project and it's very disappointing how those of us who contributed monetarily to the creation of the book have been treated. Terrible!

dcari2002 said:

onlyforaminute said:

Well i ended up with 2 books. :confused: oh well. I'm waiting to here about parts 2&3.

Wow.. wonder how that happened. I'm glad you received a book though I'm still waiting and I contributed to the crowdfunding last October. She completely underestimated the scope of this project and it's very disappointing how those of us who contributed monetarily to the creation of the book have been treated. Terrible!

But why can't she get them shipped out? She has books signings and books are sitting on the table next to her. Sorry you haven't received yours.

dcari2002 said:

PennyPurple said:

I emailed her to cancel my order because I didn't receive anything yet, not even updates and I am still waiting for a reply.
If she takes any longer I'll file a claim woth Paypal for a refund.

[Off topic snip - luv4u]

JorisE73 said:

I emailed her to cancel my order because I didn't receive anything yet, not even updates and I am still waiting for a reply.
If she takes any longer I'll file a claim woth Paypal for a refund.

Yes, I think you can. Don't wait to contact Paypal, cuz it will take several days to get it going to work on that refund.

JorisE73 said:

I emailed her to cancel my order because I didn't receive anything yet, not even updates and I am still waiting for a reply.
If she takes any longer I'll file a claim woth Paypal for a refund.

I just checked my paypal account and it says this; if you have a problem.

Issues with this transaction?
You have 180 days from the date of the transaction to open a dispute in the Resolution Center.

PennyPurple said:

JorisE73 said:

I emailed her to cancel my order because I didn't receive anything yet, not even updates and I am still waiting for a reply.
If she takes any longer I'll file a claim woth Paypal for a refund.

I just checked my paypal account and it says this; if you have a problem.

Issues with this transaction?
You have 180 days from the date of the transaction to open a dispute in the Resolution Center.

I'll check it out today. thanks!

rogifan said:

Kares said:

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What a load of rubbish this book is. I just read it but wish I didn't.
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Apart from all the points above (and I agree with them), here's a few more:

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– The cover says "29 years with Prince" but inside she claims she was hired on Christmas 1988. Now I have no idea why she felt necessary to lie in the first place, but at least she could've made sure that her statements in the book actually support that lie. No matter how I calculate, from December 1988 to April 2016 is only 27 years and 4 months, not 29 years. So even her own statements inside the book contradict the title of the book. Brilliant, isn't it? While of course we all know that neither the 27 nor the 29 years can be true. In reality she must've started sometime during or after the Diamonds & Pearls Tour. That's 24 years the most.
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– The book is 187 pages in total, but contains only about a 100 pages worth of actual text we might be interested in. The rest is blank pages with some recurring ornaments (most probably from an ancient CorelDraw version) she calls "graphic design", pages with names of hairstyling products, some dreadful drawings P (I'm not referring to Debbie's costume designs) and other nonsense, just to fill the pages.
All this is just to try maximising the income by spreading what could've been a 250 page book into 3 volumes of rubbish. Disgusting.
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– The writing is terrible, even with the help she got, it's still full of stupid lines like "P was in control of the Monopoly board playing chess while everybody else played checkers". She even repeats something like this later, and by the third mention it becomes a chessboard with Mayte being treated as the queen on it – Berry obviously has no clue of the role of the queen chess piece...

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Badmouthing not only Prince's, but Mayte's mum, as well as Manuela, is of very poor taste, in my opinion.

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She's talking about P routinely juggling 2-3 women, yet on another page she says that far fewer women who claimed to have slept with P actually did.
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Some of the things she gossips about are most probably true but that's no excuse for the rest which are obviously either made up or just hearsay she's trying to pass on as first hand experience. She's totally discredited herself with this one and I've no idea how much support she will get for the next volumes.

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I had zero intention of buying this but now even the pirated pdf will go to the trash where it belongs.
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[Edited 4/20/19 14:18pm]

Well now I have really no interest in reading this. Once again total false advertising. Kim never said she was going to write a book full of gossip. Sad thing is a lot of Prince fans (like the ones attending Celebration) think Kim is great. I’m sure all of them are buying this book. Though I wonder if their impression will change after reading it.

Can u explain ur comments regarding Celebration attendees? This isn`t the first post that u are dissmissive of these fans. I`ve been to the 3 Celebrations since he passed & I have nothing complimentary to say about Kim Berry or the way she behaves especially during Celebration. In fact I have had many conversations with fans who think the same & who are giving her a wide birth. You shoudn`t be so presumptive.

kookooman73 said:

rogifan said:

Kares said: Well now I have really no interest in reading this. Once again total false advertising. Kim never said she was going to write a book full of gossip. Sad thing is a lot of Prince fans (like the ones attending Celebration) think Kim is great. I’m sure all of them are buying this book. Though I wonder if their impression will change after reading it.

Can u explain ur comments regarding Celebration attendees? This isn`t the first post that u are dissmissive of these fans. I`ve been to the 3 Celebrations since he passed & I have nothing complimentary to say about Kim Berry or the way she behaves especially during Celebration. In fact I have had many conversations with fans who think the same & who are giving her a wide birth. You shoudn`t be so presumptive.

That's the problem, the fans are giving her a much to wide of birth. Did any fan there bother to call her out on her nonsense or did everyone just put up with it and stayed silent?

PennyPurple said:

onlyforaminute said:

No news on book 2 yet?