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Book Review of Just Kids

Just Kids
Just Kids
Author: Patti Smith
Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
Book Type: Paperback
reviewed on
Helpful Score: 4


I would never have chosen to read this book, but it was chosen by my book club. All I knew about Patti Smith and Robert Maplethorpe was that they were part of a sex, drugs and rock and roll world that usually doesn't interest me.

This is a beautiful elegy for a beloved friend. Patti Smith is not what I expected and the book helped me see these two people as human beings, young and fallible and intoxicated as much with New York in it's real Bohemian glory as with each other and their art.