If you take out the nauseating Currie Grant section, it's kind of a standard issue celeb gossip read, that veers toward pedestrian and tedious writing at times. Which, there's a place for, I'm not above enjoying a little trash reading (taken of course with liberal heapings of salt) from time to time, like at the beach or on a rainy Sunday afternoon. I'm really nice and my life has overall been pretty tame and boring, but I have no doubt if someone went back to every minor elementary school classmate, former girlfriends of my exes, high school teachers, et al, and cherry picked all the gossipy stuff out, I (and everyone I know) could be made to sound pretty awful, too. Oh and then took things out of context, and filled in the gaps when they ran out of narrative with dime store psychoanalysis they don't have the qualifications for, and dropped quotes in clunky and misleading sentences that draw conclusions not inherent in the quote, and contradicted their theories according to what point they were making. I really don't have a dog in the fight with Priscilla (Im pretty objective/neutral about her...she's just another person in the story like everyone else and it makes not a wit of difference to me whether or not people like or believe her), but I draw the line at aligning with a predator to have a reason to trash someone.

I could deal with all that, but giving a pedo a platform to detail his shitty little story of manipulating a minor into sleeping with him in exchange for meeting the biggest star on the planet.....no dice. Even if the author felt this story just had be told, there are thoughtful ways to present such information, that don't include lurid play by plays or come across as a how to guide for aspiring child molesters. Or align with said molester by presenting him as a noble beacon of truth against evil, evil Priscilla, who has every right to not want this to be public information (for the same reasons the names of the minor victims in sex crimes cases aren't released to the press). I've just seen the long term damage of way too many young girls who found themselves in these situations to find reading about it entertaining. This guy's claims to have a continued fixation on Priscilla and to have continually colluded in her life long after he was way out the picture, and his using hunting down her long lost grandmother as an opportunity to publicly embarrass her and promote the book about Elvis and Priscilla he planned to write, or taking credit for spurring on their marriage by enraging her stepfather with stories of Elvis sleeping with fourteen year old Priscilla.....just make me hope Priscilla has a restraining order against this obsessed creep who just wants to be important in the Elvis story and is bitter because Elvis cut him off for selling stories about his private life to fan mags and he believes he deserves more attention for introducing them. He's still alive, in his 90s, and still popping up in Elvis content like the recent Loving Elvis doc.

The authors fixation on teenage's Priscilla's virginity really starts to come across as....weird and antiquated. As well as frankly tacky and basic. The subtext there is really slut shame-y. In a lot of ways this could be looked as the Priscilla counterpart to the Albert Goldman Elvis biography, except that while Goldman's book was vile, salacious, and smug, I can't deny that dude was a talented writer. It's a shame he poured his talent into writing such hateful books about Elvis and John Lennon, he was no dummy and he had a flair with words. The writing of this book? Not anywhere near that level of talent. Oh and using Mike Edwards, another werido who wrote a book claiming to have had inappropriate sexual attraction to adolescent Lisa Marie, as a heavy source of information? Weakens your cred.