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Chronicles: Volume One (Chronicles)
by Bob Dylan
from Simon & Schuster

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• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Inspiring
  One of the most inspiring books I have ever read. I hope he comes out with "Book Two"

• Basically a bogus look backward
  Around every 20 pages, there's a phrase that's faintly reminiscent of the early years, the intellect that penned "it's allright, ma" etc. But so much of what he claims happened is just not reality. For instance, if you went by his words, from the late 60s onward he'd take off years at a time to play with his kids on the living room floor, go camping, rafting, etc a big stay at home family man, presumably married to the same woman, etc.
  That's all false; so how much else is false? Basically, he's lived... more info

• the truth...but what is truth?
  `Chronicles' covers the notional formative years of the Bob Dylan from birth through the string of incredible albums that re-defined folk and protest music. He has been called everything from Judas to Jesus. An intensely private person about himself and his family, he is as little known as a person as anyone of whom I can think. His interviews - take the one with the journalist in `Don't Look Back' as a case in point - seem to be more of an act of deliberate dis-information. He also exhibits consummately... more info

• I Was Wrong
  From his autobiography, it appears that I was really wrong about my conception of Bob Dylan. He wasn't a "protest singer" or "leader of progressive causes and disaffected youth", but rather a father, husband, well-read intellectual and musician. It's interesting to get Dylan's take on such golden oldies as Ricky Nelson and Roy Orbison. His book is also peppered with references to many people with whom I'm unfamiliar, but this didn't detract from my overall enjoyment of this candid autobiography

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