Honky Tonk Angel
The Intimate Story of Patsy Cline

The first solo female artist to be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. "Some people thought of Pat as a hard woman, not me. Some thought she was wild and brassy. I thought of her as colorful and unique." "There's no fool like a fool in love!" "With Patsy it was 'All for One and One for One......more

As a big fan of Patsy Cline I was quite excited to read this book. Unfortunately, it didn’t quite compel me in the way I’d imagined it would, mainly because it’s really dense, and goes into a lot of rather boring details about the music industry. I liked the bits about her personal life and how she......more

Good but not great I enjoyed the first 20% of the book and the last 30%. The middle was beyond tedious! I grew up listening to Patsy’s music in my family home. I was always very curious to learn more about her and I was very excited to read this book. I got off to a quick start and then I got stuck.......more

It was not all sugary fan worship, but a detailed biography that presented the stormy side of Cline's life and career as well. That is what I'd hoped for, rather than a glorified P.R. piece as some biographies tend to be. She was by no means an innocent wallflower. She was obviously a very complex p......more

I enjoyed the book and have read it a couple of times now. However, if you want to know Patsy the book doesn’t tell it as much as any one of her songs does. For a woman who had a very short life span, she achieved much more than most people can even dream about and more than anything else it was her......more