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A review by susannah_n
Homeward Bound: The Life of Paul Simon by Peter Ames Carlin
3.0
Even as an audiobook, Homeward Bound took some time to complete. Peter Ames Carlin is exhaustive in his detail about Paul Simon's life, and he doesn't pull any punches. An alternate title for this book could easily have been Paul Simon: Still Douchey After All These Years. The book wasn't a hatchet job, though. Carlin delivered the details like a reporter with what I perceived to be little judgment of Simon's tendency to be mercurial towards his artistic collaborators.
Three stars for the content, though at least a half star removed for the borderline pretentious attempt to go in-depth on Simon's songs and another half star removed for length: 375 pages of narrative alone plus another 57 of notes and other material.
Three stars for the content, though at least a half star removed for the borderline pretentious attempt to go in-depth on Simon's songs and another half star removed for length: 375 pages of narrative alone plus another 57 of notes and other material.