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Dreaming the Beatles: The Love Story of One Band and the Whole World
by Rob Sheffield
DNF 49.24%
I'm in the minority here, but I truly hated this book. The Beatles are my favorite band, meaning, of course, that they are very important to me. The last thing I want to read is the condescending words of a man with an embarrassing superiority complex. Nothing that he said was funny or interesting. The facts were all pieces of information I was already familiar with... but the thing is, the majority of this book was not composed of facts: It is made up of Sheffield's opinions and statements that sound as if they were pulled from a gossip column. Throughout all I managed to get through in this book, I felt like I was being forced to listen to the (all too common) trope of 'man who thinks young girls who like the Beatles are just faking it for attention, and that all of his 'mansplained' opinions are gospel.'
I'm in the minority here, but I truly hated this book. The Beatles are my favorite band, meaning, of course, that they are very important to me. The last thing I want to read is the condescending words of a man with an embarrassing superiority complex. Nothing that he said was funny or interesting. The facts were all pieces of information I was already familiar with... but the thing is, the majority of this book was not composed of facts: It is made up of Sheffield's opinions and statements that sound as if they were pulled from a gossip column. Throughout all I managed to get through in this book, I felt like I was being forced to listen to the (all too common) trope of 'man who thinks young girls who like the Beatles are just faking it for attention, and that all of his 'mansplained' opinions are gospel.'