I Walked the Line: My Life with Johnny by Vivian Cash
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Book Reviews of I Walked the Line: My Life with Johnny
Book Review: Life is life...truth is truth.
Summary: 5 Stars
Okay, I realize you may think I'm prejudiced, but I WAS THERE and also lived this story.
Even Dad (JOHNNY CASH) and June made it public in one of their last interviews that this story IS TRUE...they admitted to it.
This is my MOTHERS story...like it or not, she tells the truth and I applaud her for her courage.
Not only did she completely keep her story to herself for almost FORTY years, I was there when Dad gave her the go ahead, and HE asked her to not leave anything out. Her intention was NOT to slam June...it was simply to tell the truth.
It happened, take all 3 of my parents off the pedistal and remember they were human beings.
Dad lived because he wanted to. God is what got him through the worst times.
My parents were married 13 years and had 4 children together. IT wasn't exactly a one night
stand! They were together from 1950 to 1966!!
I expected some people to have a negative reaction, but some of these reviews are pretty hate filled..
THREE of our 4 parents are gone. Please remember, your words are hurtful for the ones here left behind that grieve for them daily. VERY HURTFUL.
If you want to critique the BOOK, that's one thing, just don't critique my Mother who you didn't know at all. She was an amazing and very loving woman that had her heart broken, and loved a MAN for over 50 years!
A MAN...MY DAD...not Johnny Cash. He was a HUMAN BEING, Okay?
You aren't required to like the book, but show a little kindness in regards to my Mother , please.
~Kathy Cash
Book Review: Amazing Book!
Summary: 5 Stars
I read this book in two evenings. I couldn't put it down. I think every young girl in the world should read this book and learn from it. It's a sad lesson but one that affects many women.
Vivian with the strength of an angel stuck by him and spent three years of her life waiting for his return. To finally be able to live the life he promised her over and over. He promised her the world and she believed him, then he ripped her world apart. I cried when I put it down.
The letters are not boring as some of these comments suggest. Unless you have attention deficit I suppose. Ha ha.
The letters told the story. He was very sweet and hopeful. He had a vibrant personality and wicked sense of humor. But at the same time he spoke a lot about what men really think and do when they get together. He contradicted himself so many times, and he was hypocritical and controlling in some of these notes.
But a young innocent girl reading his letters slowly, as they showed up in the mail, wouldn't be able to catch the little quirks in his personality as a reader is able to seeing these letters all at once. A young girl, would be too googly eyed to notice his flaws.
Love blinds us.
My daughter is excited to bring this book with her to college this spring semester.
It was worth every penny.
An unforgettable tale that leaves the readers heart aching.
Book Review: Another, Vital Take on an Oft-Told Tale
Summary: 5 Stars
Innocent viewers of James Mangold's film "Walk the Line" (2005) could leave it thinking that, somehow, Johnny Cash's first wife Vivian--the mother of Rosanne, Kathy, Cindy, and Tara--was "the other woman" to the man's only real love, June Carter. This book, written with Cash's encouragement before he died, tells another side to the story (and in real life, such stories have many, many sides). The heart of the book--some 247 pages--are Cash's love-letters to his girl friend and fiancée (1951-54), many written while he was serving in the military. A number are reproductions of telegrams, typescripts, and letters in Cash's own hand. The contents are so personal--Cash was infatuated with his lady, head over heels--that to read them feels an intrusion. Vivian brackets these letters with family photographs, her own remembrance of good times and bad, her candid feelings toward June, and her and her former husband's coming to terms with life near its end for them both. This is a book that nearly wasn't written--friend and coauthor Ann Sharpsteen practically had to coax it out of a very private person--but we can be glad that it was. And just in time: Sharpsteen tells us that Vivian died two weeks after completing the manuscript in 2005.Book Review: I Walked the Line
Summary: 5 Stars
This was a touching book with hundreds of touching love letters from Johnny Cash to Vivian Cash, his first wife. It broke my heart to see what fame, money and addiction did to Johnny. He truly wanted to do what was right. He wanted a good wife, a big family and a simple life. It was sad to see the pain that Vivian endured with his addictions and to finally lose him to June Carter who was basically a home-wrecker! I felt sad at the end of the book to see such a beautiful relationship end and to know that Vivian was still in love with with Johnny her whole life through. It's too bad that Vivian and Johnny couldn't have had a deep talk after June died and before Johnny died. That should tell us all that life is precious and too short and that we should embrace the ones we love as if it were their last day on earth...you never know when your time is up!Book Review: Riveting and heartbreaking
Summary: 5 Stars
WOW. It broke my heart to read this book. I can't even fathom the pain that Vivian went through while living it--having a love like this, and losing it in such a devastating (and public ... OMG, how humiliating this must have been) fashion. I'm in awe of Vivian's faith, class, and generosity, not to mention the way she achieved peace and closure about her life on her own terms before she died. I will be haunted for a long time by those incredibly revealing letters, and the dreams they began to realize as well as the ones that fell to pieces. I am grateful that Vivian told her, and their, story.