[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I will pay you the sum total of $1,000,000 for a copy of that book through > the mail, as soon as possible! Thanks! >
Ashara [EMAIL PROTECTED] beat me to it > In my best Dr. Evil voice: One meeeeeeeeeeeeeelion dollars???????? I will > put mine in the overnight mail right NOW!!!!!!!!!!! :-) OK, I can do you a copy of the new edition of the Hinton biography for a once-in-a-life-time-knock-down bargain price - I'm not asking $750,000 - I'm not asking $500,000 - 100,000 smackeroonies and it's yours!!!! PaulC PS. If you need more convincing, here's a couple of the enthusiastic 'reader reviews' of Hinton's 'Both Sides Now' on Amazon.com - see http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/detail/-/books/1860741606/glance/002 -7211564-5880040 (surprisingly, neither of these are quoted on the jacket of the new edition!) >10 of 10 people found the following review helpful: >Both sides together!, August 13, 2000 >Reviewer: MR R J KNOTT from Hemel Hempstead, Herts United Kingdom >Being a long-time fan of Joni, I approached this book with interest >but quickly realised I should adopt caution. Not only was it constantly >repetitive... (yes, you just told us the opening song of the tour gigs two >pages ago!)... but it was full of contradictions: so who WAS Carly >Simon's "You're so vain" written about? Most embarrassing of all was >the author's misunderstanding of the American term "suspenders" >(the British equivalent is "braces" - i.e. elastic supports for men's >trousers (pants)).. and thus wrongly accused James Taylor of being >a cross-dresser! And as for the 1996 report that Joni gave birth at the >age of 52 in 1996.... really? >23 of 23 people found the following review helpful: >Perhaps Hinton should play Mitchell's 'Help Me'., January 28, 1999 >Reviewer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] from New York , NY >It's ironic (and perhaps moronic) that Hinton should choose none >other than Joni Mitchell as a subject for a biography. Not only is >Mitchell one of the most gifted and literate songwriters of the 20th >Century, she is also one of the most iconoclastic, as well...shunning >publicity that most 'rock stars' consume with a spoon. And its these >circumstances which point out the failings in this dismal read: Hinton >can't write and what he has written are quotes of Mitchell herself when >she has deigned to submit to personal interviews. It's appalling that >the publisher went ahead with such a shoddy and thoroughly >uninformative book about one of the great pop icons of our century.
