A cautionary tale of a lackadaisical egoist going to the beat of every cliché ever trotted out about millennials? Nah, just Marilyn Monroe, who was either ahead of her time — in a Lena Dunham’s Girls kind of way — or just one sexpot who really, really could have used a copy of Marie Kondo’s The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up. I haven’t travelled much, but I don’t think I’ll find a place that can ever replace Brooklyn . In fact, since her tragic death in 1962, there have been more than 200 books about the star of star (in the English language alone), and this new book now joins a library that includes The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe, The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe, The Life and Death of Marilyn, My Week with Marilyn, Marilyn & Me, plus examinations by such titans as Norman Mailer and Joyce Carol Oates. This, then, is a portrait of Marilyn the un-victim, not Marilyn the “hologram goddess.” Not a diamonds-drowning, “Happy Birthday”-cooing Marilyn, but Marilyn the voracious reader, not to mention CEO of her own destiny.

Source: thestar March 10, 2017 14:03 UTC