I almost bought the new book called A Thief in the Temple, but I changed my mind at the last minute, because it simply looked a little scarce. Has anyone read this? Is it worth the purchase and read?

I read a bunch of Prince books over the years and some were well-written and some were not. The most recent I read was called POSSESSED and it was very engaging and interesting.

Compared to Possessed, the new book seems a little generic, but of course you can't judge a book by it's cover.

Any thoughts?

"If you judge a book by the cover, then you judge the look by the lover."
-somebody famous

berniejobs said:

Previous thread:

http://prince.org/msg/7/222329

Just somebody else trying to make money off of Prince's story, if you've read one you've kind of read them all, I wouldn't buy it

wlcm2thdwn said:

True!!!



I'm really not interested if it's not Prince writing the book himself!

Illustrator said:

This is too deep for me to understand the significance of this quote so early in the morning.

Illustrator said:

ABC

"Shoot that poison arrow to my hear-ar-art."

I brought the book, because I buy everything.

If you have read others, you'll probably be disappointed. Nothing new here.

I like the illustrated books the best, although they are hard to find.

PRINCE -The First Illustrated Biography- By John W Duffy

Is very good!

Save your money, the author's organizational skills are poor, his writing is detached and it reads as if all of his info is third hand.

There's a few nice pics though.

Illustrator said:

Hope you weren't taking my comment personally, I wasn't making fun of it. It took me a couple of hours, but I think I understand it now.

There were some good Prince books - A Pop Life, anything by Per Nilsen, but, by and large the rest are cut and paste jobs. writing about prince is a bit like writing about Sinatra or miles Davis. They've led such full, colorful, occasionally controversial lives that you can either write about the life and touch on the music, or you can focus on the music and its creation and touch on the life.

The book is lame, I read the entire thing in 15 minutes at the bookstore. There was no new info in there, the author put no real effort into getting some new thoughts, ideas, etc. IMHO

Shapeshifter said:

per nilsen's book is a good one - one of the better music biography reads I've ever come across. He's a real journalist, did a lot of ground work and had some genuinely interesting insights on Prince and his music.
[Edited 11/27/07 3:40am]