RaveEntertainment Weekly... magnificent ... While Me is as colorful as you’d expect from an artist famous for his outlandish stage costumes and outsize temper tantrums, it is also so much more than simply a dishy sex, drugs, and rock ‘n roll tell-all. (Although it is, deliciously, that too) ... The scenes are by turns fantastical and poignant and shot through with an uproarious sense of humor ... It cannot be overstated that John is a scream, with Me boasting many gasping-for-air moments of comedy ... He is at his best when taking the piss out of his own, well-earned, reputation for obstinance and ill-advised decisions. The singer-songwriter is acutely aware of how ridiculous he, and by extension much of his life, is and the reader benefits from that awareness ... A steady stream of remembrances (Freddie Mercury, John Lennon) and revelations (including a bout with prostate cancer — means keeping a box of tissues handy advisable ... both deeply relatable and specifically alien in the way all memoirs of the rich and famous can be with a sense of voyeurism. But John suffuses the proceedings with a refreshing sense of humanity, not just a laundry list of songs and shows, deeds and misdeeds ... a riveting, laugh-til-you-cry, heartfelt page-turner.
Mike Love & James S. Hirsch
MixedThe Los Angeles Times...oscillates from riveting to boilerplate to dull and back again over the course of 400-plus pages ... Love attempts to live his truth and Good Vibrations is an intermittently fascinating read for those interested in both the minutiae surrounding the birth of 'California Girls' and the details of fractious family lawsuits ... for those interested in Love’s perspective, My Life as a Beach Boy is a generally solid read.
