Bruce Spizer

I've got to be honest, I was hoping for a lot more...and a lot less...out of these books. But, having spent the money on the four-book box set, and now two books in, I'm here until the bitter end.

Spizer, obviously a fan, does tend to get a bit self-congratulatory at the beginning of this book, which hints at some of the other frustrations I'll have with it as we go.

Yes, there's definitely some interesting insights in these books—even stuff that I didn't know (not that I'm an expert or show more anything)—unfortunately, there's also a lot of information that keeps coming up over and over in the same book, because the reader gets the US, the UK, and the Canadian reactions to everything.

I couldn't be bothered with the pages and pages (and pages and pages) of fan reactions. I just don't care.

The part I found most interesting was the song-by-song details. Unfortunately, they're not quite worth the price of admission. And the rest of the stuff, while interesting, tends to border on self-indulgent. show less

Honestly, same complaints as with Spizer's other Beatles' albums books. Repetitive, overlong, unneeded info, self-indulgent, but the track-by-track info is good.

Far too much focus on both repetitive information, and chart positions for various single releases. Far too much unimportant material such as the fan reactions. Pages and pages of fan reactions.

To be honest, in this one, my attention only perked up with the whole "Paul is dead" conspiracy, but again, even that went on too long and got repetitive.

I'm glad to be done with this four-book box set and Bruce Spizer's cash grab.

This was only okay. Nothing really new or different here and, because it's several "fans" relating their experiences to the release of the album, there's a fair amount of relatively repetitious stuff.