Book Review: Jean Harlow

Bombshell: The Life and Death of Jean Harlow by David Stenn

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


 A fair and balanced overview of her life, the book was not a tell all (in order to harm the star) book.   The book also shared with the reader the age, the star and the sine from all of her abuse.  She was a star looking for someone to admire her for her true Missouri self.  She acted in order to support her dysfunctional mother.  The pressure of her life mounted, from no true father, an overbearing mother, and a sense of being an underdog a midst rabid dobermans.   And in the end she was left alone, a damaged platinum blonde.  She was the sepia goddess in an age of fear. The great depressions was a time when America was waking from the first world war and maturing from a time of magical innocence.

Jean Harlow's life seems to be summed up in the one-hundredth and tenth line of T.S. Eliot's the Wasteland: Footsteps shuffled on the stair Under the firelight under the brush her hair, Spread out in fiery points, Glowed into words, then would be savagely still.

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Haiku Review of the Wasteland by Stephen King

Haiku Summary of the Wasteland by Stephen King:

Choo Choo Engine,
stood before Roland the Brave
asking mean riddles.

Believe me there is more to this book than that, because there is nothing quit like Stephen King. He grabs a hold of you and will never let go. He uses the mythic structure of the Heroes Quest, while keeping the form current by not letting the work go into the drawers of cliche.
The dark tower is the subterranean river that flows beneath all of his books. When we jump into the adventure of the Ka-tet, we are seeing the strands of King's other works being tied up and completed. He has created a universe that will keep you awake at night.