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    <body><![CDATA[If you've read Guralnick's two volume Elvis biography (and you absolutely must) then you know the author is nothing but thorough in dealing with his subjects. Dream Boogie is no different as Guralnick takes the reader on an almost day by day journey of Sam Cooke's life over the course of six hundred...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8862103">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Too detailed for my tastes. Guralnick did massive and through research and it shows. But I felt like I was reading a day by day account of Cooke's life.<br/>Yet someone needed to write this biography. Cooke was too important to not have an account of his life in print.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Anything about the transcendent, brilliant Sam Cooke is alright by me.  Cooke is my favorite male American vocalist; his charisma and talent were extraordinary.  (Yes, yes, I have a huge man-crush on Cooke.)  &quot;A Change is Gonna Come&quot; is one of the pinnacles of musical genius in American hi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57275834">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[My theory is that tiny little angels rented living space in Sam's larynx.  Hence the most wonderful pipes I have ever heard.  Hopefully Peter G.'s bio can clear this all up.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[boy it would have been interesting to look into the personalities and histories of those involved in his murder to try to postulate exactly what happened.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Not as successful as Guralnick's other efforts, perhaps because so much time is devoted to building context that we don't get to Sam soon enough.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Not as captivating as I imagined it might be. I got bogged down in the detailed history of the gospel singing groups.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[to be honest, i scarcely read this book. it was a tome, and there were just too many minutia of sam cooke's life. i skimmed the section about his growing up in mississippi and chicago...the description of what the gospel music scene/emerging rock scene was like at that time was interesting; the infl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35537104">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Love the artist... and his story is great... What a great voice!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[His two volume set about Elvis was fantastic, but this is probably Guralnick's best work. Cooke's smooth voice belied a complex and complicated man, and Guralnick captures that existential struggle without ever being half as pretentious as this sentence. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the definitive biography about Sam Cooke. Gurlanick had  unprecedented access to the Cook family, his widow, friends like Lou Rawls and Bobby Womack, and business associates to paint an engrossing and at times contradictory character study.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[More than you even want to know in great detail.  <br/>When I read this, I also listened to his music--requested a bunch of CD's from the library.  He had such a beautiful, polished sound.  What a tumultuous life...so sadly ended much too soon.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[All of Guralnick's books are incredible....but <em>Dream Boogie</em> is so detailed it's almost absurd.  Then again, how could you not want to know every detail about a man's life when his last words were, &quot;Lady, you shot me!?&quot;  Indeed.]]></body>
    
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