The Beatles: Paperback Writer: 40 Years of Classic Writing

My 30 year old fiancée was introduced by my guitar to the Fab FourNow she screams like a teenager in 1964She can't read enough of their amazing scoreCan play most of their menu, gotta learn some moreBTW--I'm so old I was at Shea StadiumBack then, my guitar wasn't ready for Ed Sulivan

If you like reading about the Beatles and the music and culture of the sixties you'll find a lot to love here.

very detailed and interesting

Most of this book is made up of excerpts from other Beatles-related books: six pages from the Hunter Davies biography, eleven pages from "The Pete Best Story", four pages from "Love Me Do", four pages from "All You Need is Ears" and so on. Would you buy a greatest hits compilation that included only a few seconds of each song? Would you buy a DVD that contained only theatrical trailers or "best scenes" from different movies? I give this book three stars as a sort of compromise. It does have a few complete articles (like the famous Maureen Cleave piece featuring Lennon's "more popular than Jesus" statement) and it might serve as a sampler for the newbie Beatles reader to decide which books to buy. Perhaps the editor's intention was to tell the Beatles' story by putting together bits and pieces from different writers. It may be an interesting idea, but this is far from "a must have book for every Beatles fan" as the back cover reads. A real fan would rather read the best books in their entirety. I have eleven of the ones excerpted here. Even the interviews are incomplete.