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I Lived to Tell It All | 
 enlarge | Author: George Jones
Publisher: Dell
Category: Book
List Price: $7.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 97439
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 448
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 0440223733
Dewey Decimal Number: 790
EAN: 9780440223733
ASIN: 0440223733
Publication Date: June 9, 1997
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Product Description
The country music legend reflects on his life, from his roots in an impoverished East Texas family, through years of womanizing, drinking, brawling, and singing with the voice that made him a star, to his successful struggle to clean up his act with the help of his beloved wife. Reprint."
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 Too Much about Too Little December 1, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I actually read through all 430 pages wondering how it ends up for him, hoping he finds some meaning to life. The end reveals little the other 429 pages didn't, which makes for a rather shallow autobiography of this country legend. Another talented life wasted on drugs and drunkenness and self-centeredness. It seems he never did find anything outside of himself; even in the wife he believes saved him, it's all about him, never the wife or stepdaughter he abused and failed to love. I'll continue to be a fan of his music, and hope before he dies he finds something more important than himself. Then, I'll be a fan of George Jones.
 My husband loved it January 4, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I purchased this book for my husband's birthday because he is a big George Jones fan. I have to tell you, this is first book he has read, cover to cover, since we have been married!! We were on vacation in Florida and I love sitting around the pool or laying on the beach, reading. In the past, my husband made me nervous because he couldn't sit still for 2 minutes. During the week we were there, he sat and read this book every day!! Made it one of my favorite vacations ever!!
Great October 2, 2006
Now this is a real classic. Anybody interested in music in general and in country music especially has to read the autobiography of George Jones. It is simply incredible, recounting his troubles with addiction and the law, while also recounting some great country music history.
 Wish You Hadn't Told, George March 28, 2006
4 out of 8 found this review helpful
Being a huge George Jones fan, I felt as though his music was the one constant in his life that enabled him to "go on" after whatever disappointments life dealt; sing about the pain and let it go, sort of deal. After reading this book (and I really wish I hadn't) I am left more with the impression that his music was just a means to fund his habits and addictions. I'm not sure what I expected, but this book wasn't it. The book's focus seems to be repetitive through and through on being "high" or "drunk" and stupid things George did while under the influence. No big love story on the George and Tammy thing. He even divulges that he has, in fact, physically abused his current wife, Nancy. I'm going to forget(or try to) that I ever read this as I listen to all my GJ music and remember what I was doing when the song(s) came out, and NOT what George says he was doing when he recorded it/them.
The biography of the craziest man, ever March 26, 2006
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I watched 'Walk the Line' and 'Coal Miner's Daughter' and Elvis Presly specials. I've read biographies of Hendrix, Duane Allman, and Janis Joplin. None of their lives hold a candle to ol' George Jones. His career rode the top of the charts as good as any country legend. He ruined his life at least as incredibly as any rock star. And amazingly, he lived through it all and still plays shows for his fans. Lastly, his life has a happy ending (thus far).
No one's story parallels George. Read this book for yourself to see.
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