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3.07 AVERAGE
3.07 AVERAGE
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This was a great book! Beautiful love story. It was nice to see Vivians side of the story. Everyone thinks the love story is Johnny and June but I think it was Johnny and Vivian first.
I was intrigued by this book which is the only time you get to hear Johnny Cash's first wife talk about her view on what happened in their marriage (she died in 2005). What a let down the book was. 3/4 of the story was the entire collection of love letters he wrote her while he was overseas in the Air Force before they married. Incredibly boring! The last tiny part of the book was an angry rant on why June Carter Cash was a wicked, drug-addicted woman who intentionally set out to steal away her weak husband. To the end, she had forgiven Johnny for being weak but had never forgiven June for what she did to her or her children.
emotional
informative
slow-paced
I read the beginning and then I read about 10 letters and then skipped to the end. I loved this book. It's strange because I've never been a huge fan of Johnny or June. I can't even really remember why I decided to check out this book. But I am so glad I did. It felt so sincere and raw, a woman's journey through betrayal, love and loss. It was emotional. I definitely have thought about it even after finishing and have picked up a June carter biography. These people are just so interesting and the story that they each tell are so interesting. So glad I read this book.
The majority of the book is Johnny's letters to Vivian during the war. They met two weeks before he left then stayed together for Three years while he was away. Reading the letters was a little like listening to someone on the telephone - you only got one side of the letters. Her letters to him weren't included. They also start to be repetitive pretty early on. The book really depressed me. It was hard reading the letters already knowing part of their futures. Although I think the truth lies somewhere between Vivian's story and Johnny and June's - Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash's great American romance will never be really true for me again. And, reading this has influenced how I feel when listening to Cash's songs which makes me kind of sad. I found it worth reading, because of how much I liked Johnny Cash, but it probably wouldn't interest the casual reader.