PositiveThe New York Times Book ReviewIt helps that Springsteen can write — not just life-imprinting song lyrics but good, solid prose that travels all the way to the right margin ... Oh, there are a few gassy bits here and there, a jot too much couch-inspired hooey about the 'terrain inside my own head'...But nothing in Born to Run rings to me as unmeant or punch-pulling. If anything, Springsteen wants credit for telling it the way it really is and was. And like a fabled Springsteen concert — always notable for its deck-clearing thoroughness — Born to Run achieves the sensation that all the relevant questions have been answered by the time the lights are turned out.
