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: Great Book!!
Summary: 5 Stars
Anyone who is a fan of Johnny Cash should read this book. There is always two sides to every story and I found this book very interesting and a great read.
I felt Vivian's pain as she talked about there life together and her story touched me. Sometimes as a fan you forget that the stars are people just like you and they go through the same things you do except most of their mistakes are public knowledge. I admire Vivian for her ability to get through all the trials she endured as the wife of a super star and her strength was tremendous. We have lost a good sweet soul when we lost Vivian. I can say while she was on the earth it was a better place. Not many people have the strength, character and the faith that this woman had. God Bless your family.
Book Review: getting the book "I Walk The Line."
Summary: 5 Stars
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Summary: 5 Stars
i'll never be able to see the movie the same way again!! this book shows that johnny cash was truly a good and moral man and got involved with the wrong people and drugs and it nearly destroyed his life, ruined his marriage and hurt his family and children. as for june...well...i don't know what to think. but this sure made me realize there are two sides to every story!!Book Review: Vivian
Summary: 4 Stars
I enjoyed reading this book. Although the book really is 99% letters between Vivian and Johnny and in that sense can become pretty exhausting, I feel like Vivian had a purpose in including every one of those letters. She wants the reader, and more specifically, the public, to fully understand the extent of her disappointment. The letters develop a cumulative effect and the reader ultimately experiences the build-up of promises that made it so hard for Vivian to understand Johnny's change. One thing I did not appreciate as much is Vivian's complete dismissal of June's importance in Johnny's life. Although June arguably contributed to Johnny's alienation int he eyes of Vivian, it annoyed me greatly when she says that everything after her marriage to Johnny should never have happened- was never meant to happen- and that Johnny should have gone from her arms straight into the arms of God. She was one of Johnny's wives, and although I sympathize with her pain, loss and enormous disappointment, the story was at times negatively egocentric, making vivian less credible as a source. Overall, this is a very interesting and informative book.Book Review: A boy named Johnny
Summary: 3 Stars
Vivian Cash's memoir of her life with Johnny is intimate and interesting. They knew each other for only three weeks when he was shipped overseas and their courtship consisted of almost daily letters full of passion and dreams. When he came home three years later, they married and within a year they were parents and he was on his way to music stardom.
Not surprisingly, Vivian comes across as the innocent, hardworking wife and mother in the story, Johnny as a good man who succumbed to and was forever changed by drugs, and June Carter as the 'devil-driven' predator who seduced him. It should be noted that Vivian's story takes up only 65 pages of the book; the remaining 247 pages consist of Johnny's love letters to her when he was stationed in Germany. They are sweet and ardent, reflecting the loneliness of a lovesick young man.
The book, published after the deaths of Vivian, Johnny, and June, contains many personal photos. Recommended for Johnny's fans.