Take Another Little Piece of My Heart

A Groupie Grows Up

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Pamela Des Barres, celebrated "queen of the groupies," chronicled her adventures with rock stars in her bestseller "I'm with the Band. "This book picks up where that one left off, with Pamela embarking on marriage and motherhood, all the while sharing quarters and making friends with stars: Don Johnson, Steve Jones, Sylvester Stallone, Bob Dylan, Dennis Hopper, Sandra Bernhard. But this is a survivor's story--about the anguish of coping with loved ones' addictions, about suffering divorce, about the joys and terrors of raising a gifted son. And Pamela comes through it all with her grace, charm, and generous sense of humor intact. Now updated to include the next sixteen years of Pamela's adventures, this is a rollicking, piquant, and heartbreaking memoir.

Product Details

  • Media: Paperback Book, 314 pages
  • Publisher: Chicago Review Press (Sep. 30th, 2008)
  • ISBN-10: 1556528000
  • ISBN-13: 9781556528002
  • Dimensions: 6.32 x 8.96 x 0.68 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.93 lbs

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  • Book Rating 4 out of 5
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    by Amanda from The United Kingdom | Jul 26, 2009

    Superb book and an excellent follow up to "I'm with the band". Really enjoyed hearing all about her life after that fateful meeting with Michael Des Barres, his battles with his demons and how she coped not only with that but with the issues relating to their son. Done with a lot of soul searching and at times brutal honesty. Pamela writes really well and you go on the journey with her. Can't wait to read "Let's Spend the Night Together"



  • Book Rating 2 out of 5
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    by Jennifer from Chicago, IL | Aug 27, 2009

    Follow up to I'm With the Band. It was an okay read. The marriage drama, new age advice, and problem child interludes bored me. I just wanted to read more of her escapades. At the same time, I appreciated her honesty (she admits she was codependent) and her seemingly genuine appreciation for people and life.



  • Book Rating 2 out of 5
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    by Katrina from San Francisco, CA | Aug 16, 2007

    I was a very young teen when I read and loved Pamela's first book, I'm with the Band. It's entirely possible that I would feel differently about it now, but I'm definitely finding her follow-up book about her marriage to Michael Des Barres (which, we're told going in, ended in divorce) depressing. Not because I know the marriage didn't last, but because she seemed to make the whole point of her life to be keeping a moody, selfish husband happy. Though it's a quick read, I haven't even been interested in it as a book to read a few pages of in bed each night and suspect it may forever remain unfinished by me.

    EDIT: I finally admitted to myself that I'm never going to pick this book up again and have officially placed it on my "could not finish" shelf.



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    by Carol Ann from Pittsburgh, PA | Apr 17, 2009

    Ms. Clark uses her winning recipe which involves an emotionally but lovely heroine, nasty deaths, and a looney living next door. As usual I read it in one evening



  • Book Rating 5 out of 5
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    by Tonya from Melrose Park, IL | Dec 19, 2008

    One of my favorite books of all time. Thanks to this book I discovered Kerouac.



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