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Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe

Anthony Summers

Paperback | Pages: 688 pages

Rating: 3.9 | 2471 Users | 193 Reviews

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Title	:	Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe
Author	:	Anthony Summers
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 688 pages
Published	:	November 22nd 2007 by The Orion Publishing Group (first published September 1st 1985)
Categories	:	Biography. Nonfiction

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Marilyn Monroe. Her rollar-coaster life. Her deception - shrouded death. Her divided secret life. Her legion of lovers. Her intimacies with JFK and Bobby Kennedy. Her mafia connections. This is the one book that tells the whole naked, deeply moving truth about the all - too-beautiful talented, and tormented woman who played a role in public and in private that was too much for flesh and spirit to survive.

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Original Title:	Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe
ISBN:	0575403012 (ISBN13: 9780575403017)
Edition Language:	English

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Ratings: 3.9 From 2471 Users | 193 Reviews

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I have been a Marilyn Monroe fan for years. I have read several biographies of her life. This one was highly recommended and I'm disappointed. Summers' decision to constantly refer to his sources within the narrative caused the book to drag. Better editing and tighter writing would have made this a more interesting book. Much of the groundbreaking news and "secret" lives have been referenced in other books about Marilyn. This book is recommended only for fans who simply must read every possible

I don't know how much of this book can be truly believed, with many of the anecdotes coming from sources that seem even less trustworthy than Marilyn herself. This book paints her as a promiscuous, delusional, pathological liar, but it certainly doesn't spare her friends and lovers, many of whom took advantage of her mental illness in order to sleep with her and discard her. It's a harrowing look at the corrupt intersection between Hollywood and the politics of the times. It doesn't conclude for

At first I felt like I was reading one of those creepy rags that you see at the checkout counter. Tell all about a star without her there to defend herself. Marilyn has always been, to me, one of the most misunderstood "stars" of the universe. Perhaps it was her destiny to carry the mental illness that crippled her mother. We will never really know. Modern medicine was not as modern back then and Marilyn seemed destined to live a life of depression and desperation, that was constantly medicated.

2.5* A lot of research went into this book, but most of the evidence seems to be hearsay. The conclusions may be plausible, but I don't think the author's case is anywhere near proven. In the end, I think I would have preferred not to know his version. A distressing story about an unhappy, unbalanced woman with a sad background, the people who tried to love her, and the people who used and abused her.

Very tabloidish. Have no idea what to trust. Pretty much the entire book is "he said she said". The author could well be making everything up. He gets so involved in rumors and conspiracy theories (particularly about her death) that I felt very removed from Marilyn by the end. Disappointing.

God I feel dirty after having read this. Simply sad. Of course there are many that will call this sensationalized trash. And it is. But, that does not mean its not true, or, at least, holding large grains of the truth. And I am one who has long revered RFK and thought he would have been a great President. I still think so. But, even if there was no foul play involved, and without proof I cant cross that bridge, the behavior of the Kennedys with regard to Marilyn ( and women in general ) defies

⭐⭐⭐1/2: An exhaustive, sometimes exhausting, account of Monroes years of stardom, as well as her death, with little psychological analysis or exploration of her childhood. I appreciate Summers journalistic practices and instincts, but this biography reads more like syrupy tabloid gossip.