Two and a half star rating.
Connie has it all, a lovely home, husband and four children up until she meets a stranger on a night out and then everything changes. Set in the 70's and with the Ripper influence, creepy in places and strange in others but not that scary and with a very sudden ending. I would have liked to have seen less chattering with their friends Mark and Jane and more horror in this short book!

I am a huge Dean Martin fan even though I wasn't around when he made it big. My mom used to play Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis movies for me when I was too little to even talk. It wasn't until I became infatuated with the 1960s did my resurgent for Dean come back when I would read all about the Rat Pack. I recently saw the Rat Pack impersonators in Las Vegas and decided to start reading more books on Dean.

I picked this one up first because I didn't know much about his beginnings and since he pretty much started with Jerry, I couldn't wait to read this. I did enjoy the book but I don't think I know a whole lot more about Dean than I did before. He obviously kept a lot of his feelings to himself, where Jerry admits he wears his on his sleeve. Because he idolized Dean he put up with it. It's amazing they lasted ten years together. I wanted to understand why they broke up but it wasn't very clear to me. I think they grew apart and tired of each other but Jerry didn't dive too deeply into it. He talked about it "on the surface," but there was much more going on that he didn't say. It was probably too painful to go over as he shared a lot of the blame in what happened.

There were times that I thought Jerry used certain stories to stroke his ego while trying to make it sound like he felt sorry for Dean (the reviews, the buying him a song, etc.) and that was a little cringe worthy to read but all in all it was a good book. It's a shame that for as much as these two shared and as much as they can credit each other for their success, they didn't really end as close as they started. :(

I thought I would do someting special the day I got 500 followers, but as usual too much around me and now I have passed the number. But I shouldn't be sad about that, I've got a bunch new friends.

 

 

Sp let's do the introduction again instead. Well my name is Magdalena and I'm Swedish and right now I was thinking about buying a book that I really want, but I know what I have too much to read as it is so it's just going to add more books to my my tbr pile (mountain)...

 

 

As you can see I'm a bookaholic bookhoarder with a tendency to spend my money on buying books. That's not the worse part. How can't it now be the worse part you wonder?

 

 

I also am a member at both NetGalley and Edelweiss (warning enter the sites at your own risk). That means I can request books, get them and review them. I have shamelessly abused both sites and now I have quite a lot to read.

 

 

And it get's even worse. Yes it does. I also do blog tours, and I have a problem with saying no. On the plus side, I have started to say no to authors asking me to review there books. I do have to work also you know...

 

 

Anyway. Welcome to a bookaholics blogs, to a Mad Mad World! 

 

My reading of this book has been long overdue and I don't know what took me so long. I can't express just how surprised I was by this book; I expected a lot of bullshit, but I was wrong. The honesty in this book was almost shocking; Jerry didn't hold back. I love the funny stories of him and Dean in the early part of their partnership and marked a few of them to go back and read when I need a laugh. Jerry Lewis has always made me laugh with his Idiot shtick and he made me laugh with the written word.

The admiration and love he had for Dean is unmistakable. He was just as mad as anyone that Dean wasn't getting the respect he deserved. Dean was always a clever and masterful comedian, but in a way that was subtle. He could spew off one-liners without even thinking about it.

The honesty and the love that went into this book is well worth five-stars. The last chapter and afterword had me in tears.

Bravo, Jerry.