After finishing From Here to the Great Unknown, the only thing I can honestly say that I have in common with Lisa Marie Presley is that we share the nAfter finishing From Here to the Great Unknown, the only thing I can honestly say that I have in common with Lisa Marie Presley is that we share the name Lisa Marie, and believe me, that’s a good thing.
What a tough read this was. So much loss, heartbreak, and tragedy. In this instance, money, privilege, and fame sure didn’t buy happiness and fulfilment. It was definitely an honest account of the destructive nature of addiction. I knew little about Lisa Marie’s childhood (and I use the term loosely because she didn’t have much of one), so that was a real eye-opener. Her teenage years, and marriage to Michael Jackson were more familiar to me as she was in all the magazines back then. I barely remember hearing a thing about her from the past twenty-five years (I didn’t even remember she was briefly married to Nicholas Cage), although I had outgrown gossip magazines by then, so that section of the book was nearly all new to me. I didn’t even realise she had two more daughters.
I’m loath to admit this, but even though this was Lisa Marie’s autobiography, I preferred the biography parts narrated by her eldest daughter, Riley Keough, as Lisa’s thoughts were kind of all over the place, and hard to follow, and it will come as no surprise that her voice was also very depressing and surreal.
I flew through this, but it wasn’t a 5 star read for me as I’ve read better written memoirs/autobiographies. Still a solid 4 though. Now I think I need to find something lighter to read....more