Sex, Drugs and Bon Jovi Review

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Sex, Drugs and Bon Jovi ReviewWhere to begin as there are so many takeaways...
There's the rise of Bon Jovi story- an interesting one from the perspective of what it actually took for the band to break out. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that Bon Jovi's career was built on financial support from pot trafficking, but reading it in black and white was still somewhat of a shocker given his all American image. Diehard Bon Jovi fans will love the back stories of sex, drugs and the grueling life that touring brings with it.
There's also the Doc McGhee story- a public outing of an a**hole is never pretty, and this book does a good job of telling the tale. Why is it that even when people are making bank they feel compelled to screw the people that helped make the whole thing happen? One has to wonder if Doc regrets the decision after Jon fired him later on.
Then there's the story of when marketing took hold of music. Building the Bon Jovi brand was done in the same manner as making dish soap popular by using focus groups to craft an image that caters to specific demographic targets, which was something new to the industry at the time. Doc hired marketing guru Jordan Stanley from Young & Rubicam, was also responsible for other brand development initiatives including Jell-O, Kentucky Fried Chicken, PAM Cooking Spray and Advil around that time to position and the Bon Jovi brand. Stanley has since left Young & Rubicam and is now hawking soap, listing "Ivory Snow" as one of his featured clients. No wonder why Bon Jovi's music has historically been so bland. This approach to building artists was the beginning of the end for the music industry as far as I'm concerned.
Underscoring the whole story is one of greed. Greed by Doc, and certainly the greed exhibited by Jon Bon Jovi himself. Doc was getting his 20%, the accountants were getting 10%, while Tico & Richie were provided a mind blowing 1%, and Alec and David were further screwed with .5%, while Jon was making off with the rest. I'm guessing that if Richie's solo career would have taken off, he, Tico and David would have told Jon to take a hike. Anytime accountants make 300% more than what the rest of the band is, you know there's no shame in thievery. I find it pretty weak that Jon couldn't connect those dots!
Lastly, this book emits a level of sadness and remorse from a guy that clearly misses his buds, and the life they once shared. There was really no reason this book should had to have been written if men had kept their word, but it clearly had to be. Mr. Bozzett highlights other fallen heroes that served in the same role as him- including his best friend Richie Fisher and fellow tour manager for Motley Crue, who ended up penniless and in an insane asylum after attempting suicide by jumping off the Waldorf Astoria hotel. While the rock stars are the guys that the audience knows, it's the behind the scenes folks that make it all happen, and are clearly first line casualties in the battle of building a b(r)and. It also enumerates that it's not just the musicians that often get screwed, and the importance of contracts.
The bad- this book could have been just as good without publishing the pictures that Bozzett had acquired, and it could potentially have been even better as it would have forced him to dig deeper and flush out more details of life on the road. In doing so it makes the author look a bit small minded. If you like pictures, there's a lot of them. Which makes up for the fact that there's not a lot written. The book only came to 152 pages, a lot of which are taken up by said images.
The surprising- what I hadn't realized that until I read this book was just how much of a hand Doc McGhee and Jon Bon Jovi had in creating the monster that the music industry became. All in all, this quick read is a good history lesson of what went wrong in the music industry, with some monster anecdotal stories along the way.Sex, Drugs and Bon Jovi Overview

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Multiple Bles8ings: Surviving to Thriving with Twins and Sextuplets Review

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Multiple Bles8ings: Surviving to Thriving with Twins and Sextuplets ReviewThis book is well-written and definitely fills in the gap of time between the birth of the twins and sextuplets and the beginning of the Gosselins' reality show.
That said, I am going to disagree with some of the other reviews and say that this book would be more enjoyable for people who are NOT regular viewers of "Jon & Kate + 8." As one who has seen nearly the whole series, the book left me confused. Besides a bible verse awkwardly taped on the wall of the family's kitchen and the odd reference to Jesus here and there, I had never gotten the impression that Christianity played much of a role in the Gosselin's lives. This book is VERY faith-based, which I have no problem with, but it comes out of left field and seems to overreach at some points to validate Kate's decision-making.
The book's subtitle, "From Surviving to Thriving," also seems a touch inaccurate. I was anticipating at least a chapter chronicling the family's decision to do their reality show, and how this decision brought them the financial security to "thrive." Instead, the family just seems to be "surviving" throughout the entire book; not even the wealth of biblical references could turn this into an uplifting story for me. Kate's tone is controlling and negative, border lining on annoying. I appreciate that she takes numerous opportunities to thank everyone who lended them support during their difficult years, but is it asking too much to then connect the dots and assert that this led them to "thrive"? In her recollection of events, it seems that Kate rarely validated the hundreds of people who donated their time to help care for the sextuplets in the first year of their lives; on the contrary, it seems she was annoyed and resentful. For instance, there is a part in the book where Kate describes how she felt when several VOLUNTEERS would chat about non-baby things amongst themselves in between feeding the sextuplets. She writes, "I would often sit with a glazed look in my eyes trying to remember when I actually thought any of those topics were worthy of that much discussion." That's an honest statement that I commend her for admitting to, but I was disappointed when it wasn't followed by any reflection or evidence of growth - and isn't that what the book is supposed to be about? There were too many of these instances in the book for me to believe that Kate has grown spiritually as part of her journey, so all the faith references lose a lot of credibility.
I hate to write such a critical review of this book while I generally enjoy the show, but I'm confused now - what kind of family story is this? Recent episodes have chronicled Kate's tummy tuck, Jon's hair plugs, family trips to NY to do TV interviews, lavish paid-for vacations full of strategic product placement - Is God the driving force behind this too, now that 1) the kids are reaching an age where such attention could cause damaging effects down the road and 2) the Gosselin family are millionaires thanks to their series, books and speaking and endorsement fees? Is this a happy ending of a survival story thanks to the grace of God, or is it the beginning of an excessive reality empire, thanks to the grace of God?
This book left me confused, unsatisfied, and ironically liking Jon and especially Kate a little less. I'm glad it was purchased for me as a gift.
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If I Did ItConfessions of the Killer Review

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If I Did ItConfessions of the Killer ReviewOnce, in being questioned about some commment in his first autobiography. Simpson said that he had never read the book. The same seems to be true here.
First, he gives himself an additional motive for the murder. Not jealousy, but the irrestible urge to silence a whining bipolar woman whom he thought was a bad influence on his kids. Driven-to-the-wall nuts like many a murderer before him.
Second, as Sam Goldwyn would say, it's "chock full of omissions". Simpson presents the murders as spontaneous, and gives a reason for happening to have gloves and a cap in his car. He does not explain why he was wearing black dress socks and thousand-dollar teal shoes with a midnight blue track suit. In reality, of course, he wore dark socks to minimize the show of blood, and wore a pair of shoes he had decided he disliked and had not often been seen in. (But he had worn them at least once, since a picture of him wearing them had been published in a magazine 6 months before the murders.)
He says that he talked with a fan at the airport about his Hall of Fame ring, and there was no cut on his ring finger. THEN he reproduces his first police interview in which he admits he cut his finger in L.A. and the cut opened up again in Chicago. Mr. Simpson, please read the books you "write"!
He invents an accomplice called Charlie, a casual acquaintance who just drops in on a first visit to tell him Nicole was doing immmoral things. He and Charlie rush off to Nicole's house and Simpson does the deed while Charlie stands guard. This Charlie never comes forward and leaves no trace at the scene.
Charlie also takes Simpson's bloody clothes right at the crime scene and ditches them, although when limo driver Alan Park saw Simpson run into his house, Park did not mention that the man was in his underwear.
Simpson unwittingly explains what many people have wondered about: how he could take on two people. His malice, element of surprise, physical strength, probable high on crystal meth, and weapon were enough, but he tells us he knocked out Nicole first, killed Ron, then finished off Nicole. Thank you, Mr. Simpson.
He claims to have been blacked out or amnesiac about the actual murder. Some people have ridiculed this, but according to Connie Fletcher's WHAT COPS KNOW, it's a normal reaction for an amateur murderer, who is generally traumatized be what he has done. In other words, the blackout story makes the notion that he killed them MORE, not less, convincing.
In case you're wondering, he says he never once hit Nicole. Not ever.
He talks about his freeway ride, but fails to mention the many thousands of bucks and the false beard he was carrying.
He forgets about apologizing to Nicole's corpse at the wake.
He insists that he was emotionally wholly through with Nicole and was willing to talk to her ONLY about the kids, yet tells her mother, "I loved her too much [to have killed her]." Her death, more than his fall from grace, drives him to consider suicide. He gives up the notion of suicide abruptly when he hears Dan Rather say that the cops had been out to Simpson's place five or six times on domestic abuse calls. He is so angered by this lie that he peps up and vows to fight.
Read enough? The book is an interesting curiosity, and sales will finally benefit the right people. Go ahead.
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It Takes a Pillage: An Epic Tale of Power, Deceit, and Untold Trillions Review

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It Takes a Pillage: An Epic Tale of Power, Deceit, and Untold Trillions ReviewThis is an exceptionally well-written account, in detail that doesn't drown the reader, of the actions of the banking and financial industry that lead to the financial meltdown and subsequent economic contraction.
If you have already constructed a good general grasp of the various components at work, Ms. Prins fills in the particulars with a flourish. She correctly points to this being a collapse of a man-made system, fueled by the standard mix of hubris, greed, self-delusion and legislative abandon -- only it's a system that tossed trillions of dollars into a waiting black hole, inevitably touching the lives of tens -if not hundreds- of millions of people.
This is the *best* writing on this debacle I've encountered. I'd rate it right up there as commentary with David Cay Johnston's 'Perfectly Legal' and his 'Free Lunch'. But it's far more than simple commentary; Ms. Prins knows exactly what she's writing about.
It's better than Taleb Nassim's 'The Black Swan' and outdistances James Galbraith's 'Predator State' and Thomas Frank's 'The Wrecking Crew' as a precise commentary on the enemy that has grown and prospered in our midst. Gillian Tett's 'Fools Gold' was a good explanation of the creation -and subsequent rise and abuse- of derivatives in the financial world, but lacks Ms. Prins' comprehensive view, from on high, of the high-octane transmogrification of the banking and financial industry over the past ten years from a service industry into a manufacturing industry designing, producing & marketing a new breed of "securities" built by rocket scientists that blew up after launch but nonetheless produced oodles of bonuses and fees for these firms and their CEOs.
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