Just Kids Low Price CD, (Audiobook)

from baswood

[Just Kids] by Patti Smith Just Kids is the perfect title for Patti Smith's autobiography of her early life as a struggling artist in New York in the late 1960's and early 1970's. She looks back on those times with nostalgia, some pride and an adults view of her relationship with Robert Mappletho...

from Patrick311

This book is remarkably easy to parody. Here, I'll try:"I was crossing Tompkins Square Park when I ran into a young man wearing a gabardine vest. He smiled at me and called me "Sister." It was a young George Carlin. Robert hated him because he frequently had flakes of rye bread in his beard, but ...

from steve02476

I don't often read rock star bios or memoirs and when I do it's usually disappointing. This is much better than average.

from Library_Lin

Like several of the other reviewers I have read, Patti Smith has never been a big influence on me. I came of age around the time her career as a musician was becoming established. While I was a huge fan of many of her contemporaries and even some of her friends (Jim Carroll, Todd Rundgren, etc.),...

from secondhandrose

From a Goodreads list by Alice Hoffman of New York themed books. I loved this book, well written and interesting.