It seems every time I go to a meetup at Blue Dragon I come back with more books than I took. This was on the freebie shelf. I almost overlooked it because it's just a plain hardcover missing its jacket. I read the first bit, and so far I can really relate because the author's talking about how Janis was such an outcast in her hometown that even when he's doing research years after her death he encounters alot of hostility. A different take than I'd gotten on Janis Joplin before.

I kind of lost interest about halfway through. I don't like the writing style because it centers too much around quotes, simply splicing together what different people who knew Janis Joplin thought of her (ex-boyfriends, band members, one-night stands, etc) instead of weaving it together into a continuous narrative.