I am a huge Marilyn Monroe fan.I own tons of her books and I think this one has the most beautiful photos in it.Sam Shaw has taken many lovely pictures of Marilyn, and this book shows a lot of them.This book also has a wonderful text.I would defenitly recomend this book to every Marilyn fan.

Unusual book, lot's of photographs, some candieds, some from Marilyn's movie sets. Pictures are all black and white. It has many images you will not see anywhere else. Also a beautiful text by Norman Rosten, Marilyn's poet friend. Get this book! Lot's of pictures during her Arthur Miller phase. '

"Help I feel life coming closer, when all I want to do is to die," is part of a poem written by Marilyn Monroe that begins this book, written by a close friend. Never could a statement be more true of Monroe, for people who knew her say she wasn't happy with her stardom and wanted just a simple life. She wanted a happy marriage and a baby. She took numerous medications and overdosed a couple of times unsuccessfully in her life -- but most people who knew her say these were accidents, and that she knew her medications well enough not to take too many.

It appears to readers of books on her life that although she was a fairly suicidal person, she really didn't want to die. She just wanted to live a different life than she lived.

This book is a very fast read and a very interesting perspective. The author definitely believes Marilyn meant to kill herself, despite all the hype and investigations into her death.

Marilyn, with her depressions and moodiness, was probably very difficult to understand for someone who hasn't been there. On the outside looking in, it DOES appear that her death was by her own hand. But other accounts show Marilyn to be at the best health and close to being very happy when she died.

Anyone interested in Marilyn should read this book.

Imaginative skill and generosity of spirit by Brooklyn's poet laureate, Norman Rosten follows in the tradition of Walt Whitman and Sherwood Anderson to portray affectionately his "neighborhood" and finally answer the question "what makes Brooklyn Brooklyn>?"...an exuberant character all its own, as those of us who hail from there know all too well, despite living in the shadow of that "other" boro you know, the one with the taller buildings, but the boro of churches is actually livable and has Coney Island, dontcha know...a must read for all "ex-"patriates and in-patriots. See ya under the boardwalk!

"Mister Johnson", by Joyce Cary, is a tale of an intriguing, quixotic native character, set in colonial Nigeria. Cary draws on his own experiences as a colonial official in Nigeria, drawing a rich, topical, authentic picture of the country during the early thirties. The eponymous anti-hero, referred to only as "Johnson", is a pathetic creation who sees himself as an enthusiast for Empire, a champion of progress and civilisation, with the King of England numbering among his friends. In reality, he is despised by his European boss, Rudbeck, as a member of an inferior race. Johnson's life, his attempt to to become more English than the English, is set precariously between these two extremes -- the urgings of superiority and the reality of degradation, eventually leading him to the gallows. The story's culmination, involving larceny, treachery and murder, sees Johnson emerging as a pathetic but genuinely human creation, whose plight is an illustration of a genuine human dilemma.