[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]deadbird wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]WhatMustHeThink wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]vinny2256_ wrote: [/QUOTENAME] Plus his lack of emotion when he saw Peter Freestone in Freddie's house.
On the whole it lacks emotion and 'thoughts of the time' as well as rationality.
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Hi, im still debating wether or not to read the book, would you mind elaborating at all on the lack of emotion you mentioned above? I've heard so many things about this book that i'm wondering wether or not its worth going out and looking for.[/QUOTE]
Don't debate on reading a BOOK if youre that intrested. If you wnat all these opinions on if its GOOD or if its BAD.... Decide what you think by reading the book and forming an opinion yourself. Virtually nothing can go wrong.[/QUOTE]
You make a very good point, but I still dunno if its worht going out and looking for, the only way i've found possible is to order it of amazon or ebay and there is no way im paying 100 bucks for it off amazon, and im only 14, therfor dont have a credit card and my mum wont let me use hers on ebay...
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ahhhh I see. money, moeny... dangit, I hate money. and that is sort of a ... "rare" book, huh? its out of print, isnt it? whatever. I'm not reading it today, (for the same reason as you.... i scrape my money to live) but maybe later in life when I feel like it.
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]deadbird wrote: [/QUOTENAME]ahhhh I see. money, moeny... dangit, I hate money. and that is sort of a ... "rare" book, huh? its out of print, isnt it? whatever. I'm not reading it today, (for the same reason as you.... i scrape my money to live) but maybe later in life when I feel like it.[/QUOTE]
Good plan. :D
Money, the root of all evil. *sigh*
Good plan. :D
Money, the root of all evil. *sigh*
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]WhatMustHeThink wrote: [/QUOTENAME]did you like it?[/QUOTE]
Yes, I really did!
Yes, I really did!
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]<font color=336600>ChinesedogTorture wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Yay, the book arrived yesterday around 4'o clock, and I read it. The ending made me cry so much! :'([/QUOTE]
Can you send it over here?
Or write it down in an e-mail for me?
hehe you rule Carol
Can you send it over here?
Or write it down in an e-mail for me?
hehe you rule Carol
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]<font color=336600>ChinesedogTorture wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]WhatMustHeThink wrote: [/QUOTENAME]did you like it?[/QUOTE]
Yes, I really did! [/QUOTE]
No bitter feelings towards Jim and his supposed childishness? :-P
Yes, I really did! [/QUOTE]
No bitter feelings towards Jim and his supposed childishness? :-P
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You make a very good point, but I still dunno if its worht going out and looking for, the only way i've found possible is to order it of amazon or ebay and there is no way im paying 100 bucks for it off amazon, and im only 14, therfor dont have a credit card and my mum wont let me use hers on ebay...[/QUOTE]
on amazon.co.uk you can buy the hutton book for GBP 4,99.
You make a very good point, but I still dunno if its worht going out and looking for, the only way i've found possible is to order it of amazon or ebay and there is no way im paying 100 bucks for it off amazon, and im only 14, therfor dont have a credit card and my mum wont let me use hers on ebay...[/QUOTE]
on amazon.co.uk you can buy the hutton book for GBP 4,99.
I don't want to hurt Mr. Hutton or Ms. Austin. So I'll leave it at this. Maybe Jim felt he had to get his feelings out in the open. It's hard to say what really went on in those days at Garden Lodge.Maybe Jim was jealousor felt hurt, and maybe Mary did too. We really don't know.
I want a copy of the book
I saw a tv interview of Jim Hutton after he wrote the book and thought, "What a sweet man!" When asked why he did it, he said he had been to Queen conventions and talked to fans, and many of them had misinformation about Freddie, such as he died alone, which wasn't true. I found Mercury and Me to be a true love story. Hutton had no interest in music before he met Freddie, and after he died, he had none again. Freddie used to call Jim, " 'My husband' ... sent me these flowers."
It is not so easy watching someone you love live/die. Friends will be friends, right to the end. If that isn't love and loyalty, I don't know what is.
Mary inherited a massively expensive property and furnishings, and with fans clamoring all about, I would imagine she had to protect it in whatever way she felt best even if that meant having Jim and Peter move out to the other house on the property, and then eventually move out of there before they were ready. Just think if you had people living in your home and they had friends over, etc., you would never know who was coming and going. It sounded like an extremely strained atmosphere.
I've heard it said that Freddie was a recluse the last two years. I didn't get that impression from Jim's book. It seemed like they were going here, going there, flying here and there - just not in the public's eye.
As far as too much information about the last days, well, yes, it is very painful to read, but yet again, Jim was clarifying who was there and that Freddie received the pain medications he needed, etc. After he died... "Later that evening Freddie's parents arrived and went to his bedside. Freddie looked so serene, ecstatic and radiant that they asked whether we had put make-up on his face. We said we hadn't."
It is not so easy watching someone you love live/die. Friends will be friends, right to the end. If that isn't love and loyalty, I don't know what is.
Mary inherited a massively expensive property and furnishings, and with fans clamoring all about, I would imagine she had to protect it in whatever way she felt best even if that meant having Jim and Peter move out to the other house on the property, and then eventually move out of there before they were ready. Just think if you had people living in your home and they had friends over, etc., you would never know who was coming and going. It sounded like an extremely strained atmosphere.
I've heard it said that Freddie was a recluse the last two years. I didn't get that impression from Jim's book. It seemed like they were going here, going there, flying here and there - just not in the public's eye.
As far as too much information about the last days, well, yes, it is very painful to read, but yet again, Jim was clarifying who was there and that Freddie received the pain medications he needed, etc. After he died... "Later that evening Freddie's parents arrived and went to his bedside. Freddie looked so serene, ecstatic and radiant that they asked whether we had put make-up on his face. We said we hadn't."
Hi guys, I was wondering if anyone can help me. I've found a scanned copy of "Mercury and Me" in internet but a part is missing in the middle. This missing part starts from "Freddie had mentioned Garden Lodge in passing, but the house was far more magnificent then I`d expected. But at that time, however, despite the beautiful London house, Freddie still thought of Germany as his main home." and ends with "February the 14th 1986 was our first Valentine’s Day together". Could someone please retell in a few words the events that happened in this this missing part? Or maybe someone even have it scanned and can share somehow?
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]<font color=336600>ChinesedogTorture wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Yay, the book arrived yesterday around 4'o clock, and I read it. The ending made me cry so much! :'([/QUOTE]
I won't go too far on what happened to me while reading those last two chapters, but lets just say I couldn't stop crying for hours....
I have the book. I love it and I've read it 4 times now.
I won't go too far on what happened to me while reading those last two chapters, but lets just say I couldn't stop crying for hours....
I have the book. I love it and I've read it 4 times now.
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]<font color="#FF00FF">its_a_hard_life wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]<font color=336600>ChinesedogTorture wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Yay, the book arrived yesterday around 4'o clock, and I read it. The ending made me cry so much! :'([/QUOTE]
I won't go too far on what happened to me while reading those last two chapters, but lets just say I couldn't stop crying for hours....
I have the book. I love it and I've read it 4 times now.[/QUOTE]
Wow! 4 times! :-D I'm just rereading some of the interesting bits. Like all the times he shopped! xD
I won't go too far on what happened to me while reading those last two chapters, but lets just say I couldn't stop crying for hours....
I have the book. I love it and I've read it 4 times now.[/QUOTE]
Wow! 4 times! :-D I'm just rereading some of the interesting bits. Like all the times he shopped! xD
I STILL refuse to read that trash. I picked up a copy at a local bookstore when it first came out and paged through it. The brief bit that I read about Freddie's last days made me ill. How would you like it if someone wrote that private stuff about you?
If he could have left it at his relationship with Freddie and not made it graphic to prove himself to everyone- it might not be so bad.
This book was such an invasion of Freddie's privacy, and that it was done by someone who apparently loved him makes it even worse.
I've said it before and I'll say it again- if I ever meet Jim Hutton, I'll poke him in the eye.
If he could have left it at his relationship with Freddie and not made it graphic to prove himself to everyone- it might not be so bad.
This book was such an invasion of Freddie's privacy, and that it was done by someone who apparently loved him makes it even worse.
I've said it before and I'll say it again- if I ever meet Jim Hutton, I'll poke him in the eye.
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Aril wrote: [/QUOTENAME]
I've said it before and I'll say it again- if I ever meet Jim Hutton, I'll poke him in the eye.
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Not meaning to knock you from your high and mighty horse, surely, but dont you think you should read the WHOLE book before assuming that?
I've said it before and I'll say it again- if I ever meet Jim Hutton, I'll poke him in the eye.
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Not meaning to knock you from your high and mighty horse, surely, but dont you think you should read the WHOLE book before assuming that?