The Assassination of Marilyn Monroe - Donald H. Wolfe

Advantages: The whole book, start to finish!
Disadvantages: There is none really unless you are a kennedy fan!!!

...understood who she was. From the first page of that book i was a hooked fan everything about her was so intriguing and the pictures in the book where truely amazing, at the age of 13 when maybe i should of wanted to be like the spice girls like most other girls my age i was classing marilyn monroe as a beautiful woman who after reading about her life i deeply admired. So 11 years on and i have to say iam still a great fan of the biggest sex symbol ...
...hers its her background and the on going struggle of her life and quest to find happiness that makes me a fan. After reading many books on her life and death and the mystery that surronds most of it i must admit i was getting a little bored of reading the same things over and over again most books on marilyn tend to tell you about her hard childhood and her mothers mental illness and the fact she was moved from foster home to childrens home untill ... Read review

Advantages: Fascinating read
Disadvantages: None

...at all" ….. Candle in The Wind, Elton John Those lyrics by Elton John pretty well summed up my thoughts on Marilyn Monroe, having seen her in only a few films and on posters, I was only really aware of the conspiracies surrounding her mysterious death but had never really given her much thought. That was until Mrs. CFC was rummaging through some old books and came across "The Assassination of Marilyn Monroe" by Donald H. Wolfe, which she suggested ...
...it up and over the last fortnight I have become very enlightened to not only the legend which was, and still is, Marilyn Monroe but also to the very strange circumstances which surrounded her death. The book opens up with the events surrounding her death on Sunday August 5th 1962, where she was found dead in her bedroom, presumed to have committed suicide through an overdose of barbiturates. Over the following chapters Wolfe goes into all the facts ... Read review