Aram Sohigian's Reviews > Just Kids
My rating:
Just Kids
by Patti Smith
by Patti Smith
Wow. Totally blown away. I knew of Patti Smith from her musical career but didn't really understand much about her life and how it developed. This is an amazing biography of the first twenty five or so years of her life and her meeting with Robert Mapplethorpe. It does go until his death but the majority of it is her younger years before she was famous.
Patti has a very quick and rapid fire way of writing that I appreciated. It fit with her life and how she sees the world. Her growth from a small town and supermarket check out girl to the rock star is truly amazing. If it was fiction I wouldn't have believed it but it is real.
I appreciated learning about both Robert and Patti and how their lives connected on so many paths and so many journeys. I had no idea they even knew each other let alone seemed to be each other's muses.
Lastly, the people that Patti runs into and meets are truly a page out of history. So many rock stars, artists, heroes from the past and everyone else you can imagine seem to appear. To read about Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix talking to Patti and realize that this was just her life was incredible to me. To live in that era, with those people, and to be able to take it in and become your own person at the same time. Truly wonderful.
Patti has a very quick and rapid fire way of writing that I appreciated. It fit with her life and how she sees the world. Her growth from a small town and supermarket check out girl to the rock star is truly amazing. If it was fiction I wouldn't have believed it but it is real.
I appreciated learning about both Robert and Patti and how their lives connected on so many paths and so many journeys. I had no idea they even knew each other let alone seemed to be each other's muses.
Lastly, the people that Patti runs into and meets are truly a page out of history. So many rock stars, artists, heroes from the past and everyone else you can imagine seem to appear. To read about Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix talking to Patti and realize that this was just her life was incredible to me. To live in that era, with those people, and to be able to take it in and become your own person at the same time. Truly wonderful.
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Reading Progress
| 01/22 |
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51.0% | "I wish I knew more about the late 60's/early 70's scene and the people that populated it because it seems as if Patti Smith knew basically everyone that was a part of it! I'm utterly amazed at the people she meets and connects with and I'm only half way done with this book. It is like reading a history book at this point from a living legend." | |
| 01/22 |
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51.0% | "I wish I knew more about the late 60's/early 70's scene and the people that populated it because it seems as if Patti Smith knew basically everyone that was a part of it! I'm utterly amazed at the people she meets and connects with and I'm only half way done with this book. It is like reading a history book at this point from a living legend." | |
| 01/22 |
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51.0% | "I wish I knew more about the late 60's/early 70's scene and the people that populated it because it seems as if Patti Smith knew basically everyone that was a part of it! I'm utterly amazed at the people she meets and connects with and I'm only half way done with this book. It is like reading a history book at this point from a living legend." | |
| 01/20 |
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38.0% | "I didn't know much about Patti Smith, other than a few of her songs, and I am now enthralled with at her life. Her affair with Robert Mapplethorpe, meeting other artists, and her starting move into being a musician, is totally incredible. If someone wrote this as a fiction book I wouldn't believe it. However, it is true." | |
| 01/20 |
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38.0% | "I didn't know much about Patti Smith, other than a few of her songs, and I am now enthralled with at her life. Her affair with Robert Mapplethorpe, meeting other artists, and her starting move into being a musician, is totally incredible. If someone wrote this as a fiction book I wouldn't believe it. However, it is true." | |
| 01/20 |
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38.0% | "I didn't know much about Patti Smith, other than a few of her songs, and I am now enthralled with at her life. Her affair with Robert Mapplethorpe, meeting other artists, and her starting move into being a musician, is totally incredible. If someone wrote this as a fiction book I wouldn't believe it. However, it is true." | |
| 01/18 |
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8.0% | "I have little knowledge of Patty Smith so I didn't really know what occurred in her life other than music. I has no idea she was with Robert Mapplethorpe and reading about his life, in comparison to her's, is very enlightening and intense. Definitely glad I started to read this book." | |
| 01/17 |
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7.0% | "I have little knowledge of Patty Smith so I didn't really know what occurred in her life other than music. I has no idea she was with Robert Mapplethorpe and reading about his life, in comparison to her's, is very enlightening and intense. Definitely glad I started to read this book." |
