Three Memoirs, Three Reviews

[selenak]

More leftover from my Brückenau days: book reviews. One of the books in question I’d browsed through before but hadn’t read it properly, the other two were new to me. What the three have in common is, aren’t you surprised, a Beatles connection; otherwise they’re widely different, though each struggling with the opening sentence ofDavid

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[selenak]

It’s easy to be the ‘good guy’ when he no longer has an obligation to Pattie as her husband. I suppose I can understand why Pattie thinks she should’ve fought for him harder when he’d been so good to her after their marriage ended, but if she would’ve stayed I could only see it ending in divorce. I don’t think he wanted to be married to her but enjoyed their friendship.

Yes, that was my impression as well. They were both young and immature when they married, and George realised at some point (i.e. India or shortly after) that he didn't want to be married anymore, but as opposed to John he wasn't the bridge-burning type and wanted to keep Pattie in his life, just not as his wife.

I’d honestly be curious to hear Jane’s thoughts on Pattie. I bet she probably thought Pattie was lovely enough but probably didn’t relate to her on an intellectual level.

I'd be honestly curious to know Jane's thoughts on everyone (me and all of fandom, I know; we all admire and curse Jane for her impeccable discretion, I suppose), but yes, my guess is that's probably what she thought.

Class differences: maybe I'm wrong, but that's how the passage in question came across to me. Not conscious on Pattie's part, but there.

(BTW, you might want to also check out my review of Klaus' book, which has quite a lot on George.)

[jonesingjay]

Oh, yes, I did read your bit on Klaus' book and found the George passages rather sweet and endearing. George could be such a lovely man to his friends. I just felt an urgency to respond to your Pattie bit first. I'm quite interested in the Beatles relationships when it comes to women romantic or otherwise.