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Customers find the book engaging and informative. They appreciate the author’s honesty and candidness in sharing her life experiences, triumphs, and struggles. Readers describe the autobiography as a great read that provides insightful details into the music industry. The story is described as compelling and entertaining, with moments of humor and sadness.

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Perhaps the finest soul singer of the rock era-but equally at home singing blues and jazz — Etta James is one of the great women of American music. In Rage to Survive she tells her mesmerizing tale in her uniquely big, bold, and unrepentant voice. Without a trace of self-pity she describes her chaotic world of early R&B, depicts legends like Sam Cooke and Little Richard, details her dependency on drugs and bad men, and unsparingly recounts the golden age of soul, when her “Tell Mama” topped the charts. Rage to Survive is a funky, ribald tale told with unparalleled sass.

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Reviewer: Professor Wooski
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Ms. Etta J. Will Make You Laugh
Review: Etta James makes you laugh out loud for real. There are several sad moments, but you get through them. Ms. Etta James is transparent and knows how to tell her story. I enjoyed reading the book. #MuchRespect #whoisaware❤️✌️🏽✊🏽🔥😎

Reviewer: Batiste369 “The Music Connoisseur”
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A must read!
Review: I’ll be the first one to admit, I’m not a huge lover of books, but when I find one that holds my interest, I become engulfed in the story and it becomes hard for me to put it down. This book proves that point very well. This book is not only a must read for Etta James fans but it also should be recommended to anyone who enjoys reading about overcoming obstacles. Etta’s story is so powerful and thrilling, that I firmly believe she was put on this earth for something far too great to measure. I have never read an autobiography more brutally honest than this one. Too many times in autobiographies (especially those by singers/entertainers) the author paints themselves in the best light possible, this is not a normal autobiography. In this book Etta tells us candid, dark tales of her life that seem so outrageous it leaves the reader questioning whether Etta is making this stuff up! During the time I was reading this book I learned so much about Etta as a person and the impression she made on me was as a caring yet honest person who unfortunately got caught up in the pitfalls of life and thankfully made it out with her life, barely! Etta’s had many close calls and I’m sure she thanks the lord for giving her the strength to make it through them.Another reason to get this book is for her often times brutally honest nature about fellow celebrities including Marvin Gaye, James Brown, Bo Diddley and many others; Etta’s descriptions of them are at times very candid. In one of the chapters Etta tells of the egotistical nature of James Brown and Marvin Gaye, But even when engaging in these unflattering remarks, Etta doesn’t come off as mean, But instead as honest; Etta holds no punches on herself and others and if that means pissing someone off, then so be it! That’s the way Etta comes off in this book.I should also mention that Previous to me reading this book I also purchased the Etta James Gold collection, To make me better appreciate Etta as a singer and after reading this book, I must recommend that collection as a companion piece to this book, To fully experience the “Etta effect”. Sadly earlier this year I was shocked to learn that Etta has been diagnosed with the incurable Alzheimer’s disease, so there’s a chance Etta won’t be here much longer. Get this book while Etta’s still here with us and learn about this amazing woman before it’s too late!

Reviewer: BONES
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great service and a great book
Review: Reading this book opened my eyes to this great singer. For a person who loves music I just started to listen to Miss Etta wow the raw gut feeling in her music is the same raw gut feeling Ifelt in her book.The way the book describes her is an example of the way she sang Raw AND FULL OF EMOTION truly one of America’s great singers. If you want to know Etta read this book the movie doesn’t do her justice. I urge anybody interested in music to read this book

Reviewer: Sheba Silver Spring
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Arrived fast
Review: In perfect shape.

Reviewer: Charles Stevens
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Very,very happy with the condition
Review: Brand new condition .

Reviewer: Vera G.
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Couldn’t Put It Down!
Review: The Etta James story is one of the most interesting biographies that I have ever read. It was full of names and music that I’ve known all of my life, and so many other details that I had absolutely no idea about! If you, dear reader, are curious about the tragedies, hilarity, gut-wrenching truths behind what made Etta James the quintessential artist that she is, don’t let another day go by without purchasing and reading this riveting book!

Reviewer: Dan C.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A Survivor’s Story!
Review: Despite all odds, Miss Etta is still with us: read this book if you have the courage to learn what life ‘on the road’ was like for an entertainer in the 50’s and 60’s, with the difficulty enhanced tremendously for African-Americans. The debt today’s divas owe Etta and others from 40 years ago will never be repaid. The book pulls no punches: white record label owners shafted their acts in every way imaginable, yet there’s a snapshot of Leonard Chess that you’ll be thankful for. Etta writes of doing heroin with Little Esther, being in and out of jail, being up and down, getting her “X” by joining the Black Muslims, touring with Little Richard, the dangers of driving through Dixie in the late 50’s and early 60’s with a blond ‘do’ (and a monkey).There’s another reason to buy the book: you can dine out for weeks by sharing the story of Etta’s father. The book includes a photo of the two of them side-by-side. Yup, amazing resemblance. And no, I’m not going to tell.Etta did the Letterman tv show a few weeks ago; is still making music. She’s a national treasure. When she appeared in Dallas I slipped a note to a member of her crew to pass along, thanking her for all the music that has meant so much to me. If you’ve never heard Etta, look for that two cd set of her Chess recordings. One listen, and you’ll be hunting for a pen and pad to send her the same kind of note.

Reviewer: ASKBiblitz
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Such brutal honesty and such resistance against in her case the well-earned victimhood so troublingly popular today, Etta James was the real deal. She would have been nice to know. How few musicians today one would say this about. Ugh. Etta was still another gospel prodigy – like Sam Cooke, Lou Rawls and Aretha – one who badly needed good, earnest parents, not the broken 14-yr-old Dorothy Hawkins, who abandoned her genius girl except to return periodically only to steal from her so famously that Leonard Chess kept the deed to Etta’s LA house so that she wouldn’t end up homeless. I wish she’d hung more with Wolf and Muddy and enjoyed their more stable, grounding family lives, but she called theirs sharecroppers music, alas. I had no idea there was so much heroin around the music industry then or that so many black musicians needed a second string dealing, stealing and/or running prostitutes b/c they were so poorly paid. What a revelation. Yrs before the royalties lawsuits shored things up. Dreadful to read of Etta’s first rehab stint replete with truly shocking punishments. Glad she left the subsequent rehab test of strength clean but whole for rejecting their excessive, still over-negative nonsense. Hope anyone today struggling with addiction would look first to Silva, Centerpointe, Learning Strategies, MindTrax, Hypnosis.com, Joseph Murphy’s books and other similar truly healing, truly effective tools to enlightenment and health.This book is an exhausting, frantic read of an exhausting, frantic life of a motherless child, who somehow – HOW?! – left us with some of the saddest, most haunting, inspiring music ever made. At Last by Etta is still an anthem to marriage. Think of that. And hers lasted. Unbelievably! Wow. So God bless the sharecroppers, Leonard Chess, the Rolling Stones and Eric Clapton for ensuring their fame and God bless Etta, who was one helluva great singer. Hideous junkpop Bay-un-see can’t hold a candle to dear Etta.

Reviewer: Judy Deykin
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: The person liked it very much.

Reviewer: Miguel
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Simple edition for a really good book (at least if you’re a fan)

Reviewer: Melvina Germain
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Love this book, Etta is one of my fav’s, may she rest in beautiful eternal peace, so well deserved…..

Reviewer: D. R. Edser-lands
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: This is a story of survival. It’s a pity that most of her problems are self inflicted but you have to read this book to understand her situation. Bad choices in men seems to be her downfall and her mother Dorothy must share the blame. But whatever the lady’s condition she gave her all when recording and performing live. Her music is her legacy to the world and her story needs to be told read.I couldn’t put it down and now have an almost complete collection of her recorded works and a better understanding of what it was like growing up fast in those troubled times of segregation. Jackie Wilson, Sam Cooke and her soul sister Aretha come alive as they inter-weave through her life and although it is not a totally happy ‘Suzy Creamcheese’ (as she puts it) life it ‘s real and tough. One of the best autobigraphies I’ve read..