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wow. priscilla you are so strong i love you so much. you are still an icon, like i need your fashion sense. but, i enjoyed the book a lot more than the movie. i think sofia coppola is amazing and the perfect director and cailee was absolutely perfect for priscilla. however, i felt it lacked a sense of plot and depth. if you saw the movie priscilla and feel the same way for sure read the book. i didn’t want to put it down once, it was incredible and im so grateful that priscilla wrote her story. also, i am not a person that generally admires elvis as a person, i do appreciate him as an artist. but i did really connect with the elvis movie, partly because of austin butler and his amazing acting, but i really wish they touched more on these subjects.
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I guess this was a pretty solid insight into Elvis & Priscilla’s marriage… I decided to read this book after reading Peter Guralnick’s two-part biography in order to get a more detailed look at E&P’s relationship as well as to get more of Priscilla’s side of the story. I think her book was well written and heartfelt, she obviously had to struggle with a lot of things over the decades, but I do also think this book was a bit dramatized/exaggerated. We’ll never really know if everything she mentions in the book is true (i suspect most of it is, but there are a few details i’ve heard rumors of being false.) Like all of these authors, Priscilla is clearly still profiting off Elvis (no hate though) but she’s also not the perfect person she’s often depicted as. Their marriage was clearly strained and had a lot of issues, but her book I think unfairly places the majority of the blame on Elvis. But i understand that this is her story and her POV, i just think anyone who reads it should take it all with a grain of salt. Good read for any fans of Elvis though, and I recommend reading it as a supplement to some of the other books about him with more holistic approaches.
The Elvis movie doesn’t hold a candle to this. There are so many interesting facets to Elvis’s life that I wish that movie included: his spiritual phase, his horse riding and owning phase, his motorcycle gang phase, and honestly all of his love affairs. I also had no idea he was in THAT many movies. It was so easy to get lost in this story’s timeline and I am still not sure exactly when (relative to their relationship) they got engaged, married, divorced, etc. I also am shook that Pricilla was a virgin til marriage. Overall, a wild rollercoaster into the world of Elvis that Elvis the movie failed to include. I’m looking forward to see what Pricilla the movie decides to include or not from her recounting of their relationship!
great if you want to read about Elvis being a yucky abusive groomer!
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Read this after seeing the adaptation Priscilla - it’s genuinely so sad to hear first hand accounts of Elvis’ abuse all whilst Priscilla still romanticised the very idea of him. Glad she is living a full and happy life!