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Title: This book stinks
Review: Pleeze, Rolling Stone and other worshippers of this dribble. Myra Friedman spends most of this outing psychoanalyzing Janis Joplin with the pompous arrogance of someone who fancies herself a shrink. This cold, biased analysis of Janis leaves her faceless, lifeless and one-dimensional. Painting Janis to be a pathetic, ridiculous coward throughout, the author makes several laughable attempts to portray herself as a close friend, claiming to have loved Janis. With friends like this, who needs enemies? I can't imagine Janis feeling anything but betrayed and offended by this judgmental portrait. Janis deserved better than this. Unfortunately, it's been hailed as the definitive rock biography. It is nothing of the sort. If you want to know the real Janis, listen to her albums.
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