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You will enjoy this even if you love Janis or hate her. I love her music, and Echols paints her as a real human being, sometimes brutal, sometimes vulnerable, always fascinating. An excellent biographical work that humanizes the legend. Janis is not portrayed as a victim, an abused woman or an abuser. Echols emphasizes the confusion of all of us who lived in those times. Some of us learned to tell -- or read -- about them. Unfortunately, Janis did not. Echols helps us to find a real person with a talent that is still, in this reader's opinion, unsurpassed.


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Scars of Sweet Paradise The Life and Times of Janis Joplin Alice Echols 9780805053944 Books Reviews

Totally different slant and perspective of Janis Joplin and the friends and musicians around her. Seems to be researched well and shows a gritty and troubled time for all involved. Everyone knew her problems with drugs and alcohol and she never had too many friends that could help het because they had big problems too. She apparently tried several times to avoid drugs and alcohol but was surrounded by others who kept temptation right in fromt of her. She seems to have been used and abused by so many people but it probably was a two way street. Love her music and respect her talent and wish there was more music to be enjoyed.
I am sure Janis' life was very interesting, this book however is not!!! The author does an excellent job talking about everything except Janis, from what was going on in the world, to what people were wearing and thinking and why . I found myself skipping entire pages to get to the subject of Janis. I finally just gave up about 2/3 of the way through.
On the back flap, the blurb about the author reveals that she is considered a prominant historian for the 1960's, and that really shows in this book. At times, it's enchanting to have all these details about the world that Janis lived in, but at other times it was just something to slog through. For example - Janis actually returns home from California to recover from her speed addiction, and while she's in Texas, the entire hippie movement takes off. Echols takes great pains to describe every single happening in San Francisco while Janis is in Port Arthur, and it just fell flat for me. I ended up flipping pages to see when the story would get back to Janis - something that I found myself doing several times while reading, wondering when I'd read less about Chet or Peggy, and more about the book's subject.

Regardless, it's a very fair and honest portrayal of Janis Joplin, outlining her extraordinary talents and very sensitive soul. This is not light reading, but a very in-depth look at the "life AND times" of Janis Joplin.
Extremely well written, packed full of dates, names, deals, drugs, sex, and rock and roll. I loved Janis Joplin and her music, and all the music of 'my" time - I am so sad about the way she passed, but more so about her extreme low esteem. I suspect she could have been bi-polar as well. RIP Janis - Hopefully your life now is much happier )
There are a whole bunch of biographies of Janis, including the well known Buried Alive, but this late comer published in 1999 appears to be the most even-handed, well-researched, and scholarly. In fact Alice Echols is a scholar of the 1960s (without any personal connection to Janis) so there is a lot of contextual information to put the period in perspective - I've probably learned more about the 1960s San Francisco scene in this book than anywhere else, it's worth reading for that reason alone.

This is my first "rock-star biography", a genre I have avoided because of the groaning shelves of narcissistic "tell alls". I choose Janis to be my first (something she would have loved) after seeing a couple YouTube clips one showing her singing "Ball and Chain" live, the other a TV interview at her Texas hometown high-school reunion. In these clips I saw a deep, complicated and obviously brilliant person, her charisma on stage was memorizing and off-stage equally so. For me she became more than a raspy-kinda-scary voice on the radio from another era, and I wanted to learn more about who she was, and why she had become so famous and died so young.

Joplin's personality was a wild horse who kept on the move, never finding but always seeking a new home and greener pastures, running from her personal demons while embracing her desire for living life in the moment to the fullest. She drank heavily (Southern Comfort), f...ed thousands of guys and hundreds of women, got in fights with Hells-Angels, shot heroin and was a mainlining speed-freak. She was a vulnerable, loving and kind child from a well-off Middle Class suburban family. She was a walking enigma. Her origins are with the beatniks and folksie scene of the early 60s, she was never fully accepted in the San Francisco scene as a hippie, yet she is widely imagined as one of its founding mothers with her "Perl" costume of boa-feathers, clunky bracelets and lots of beads.

In the end her death was no surprise even to herself, she put her body on the front-line of the cultural revolution pushing the boundaries forward on many fronts. It is unfortunate she was largely forgotten in the 70s and 80s but I think with historical reflection on the 60s her life will find more prominence - if nothing else than an archetype of a generation, but also for being ahead of her time as a woman rock star in a male dominated industry.

Echols does a good job of balancing the exterior fame with the interior truths of Joplin, a psychological profile that will remind the reader of other people they know like her, it's believable because she seems so "normal" (in a somewhat abnormal way). I came away both with an intimate understanding of Janis and a much stronger sense of the 60s having seen it through the life of a single person who was a central catalyst.
You will enjoy this even if you love Janis or hate her. I love her music, and Echols paints her as a real human being, sometimes brutal, sometimes vulnerable, always fascinating. An excellent biographical work that humanizes the legend. Janis is not portrayed as a victim, an abused woman or an abuser. Echols emphasizes the confusion of all of us who lived in those times. Some of us learned to tell -- or read -- about them. Unfortunately, Janis did not. Echols helps us to find a real person with a talent that is still, in this reader's opinion, unsurpassed.