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Title: Better to Burn It Than To Read Away
Review: I am a big Neil Young fan, and I like biographies, so I should've liked this, right?Unfortunately, the writing is so tedious it was a struggle to get through. Jimmy McDonough seems more interested (or, perhaps I should say "innarested" as he does several times a page) in expounding on his own opinions than on Neil's. By about page 2 you realize Mr. McDonough is overly proud of the fact that he has cracked Neil's inner circle, and he spends the next 750 pages reinforcing how chummy he is with the principal characters. We get multi-page accounts of Mr. McDonough recounting how only he would tell Neil that he was being over commercial and over-exposed, then we skip years ahead to the next Jimmy-tells-Neil anecdote. I wanted a Neil Young bio, not a Jimmy McDonough bio.Die hard fans might -- and I stress the maybe -- be able to fight their way through this biography, but everyone else should stay away. Better to spend your money on some Neil Young CD's.
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