The King!!!! Unfortunately it doesn't cover his whole life, I could've read on and on.. ( )

Well-written, entertaining, and all that. ( )

I love Mark Childress. I didn't even know I loved Elvis until I read this book (and visited Graceland).

Childress is able to capture the hilarity, absurdity, vibrancy and poignancy of his characters' lives, the music business and the South. It's a tender book that made me laugh out loud, and made me want to read all of his other works immediately. ( )

Mark Childress has a vivid writing style that makes this book an easy read. However, living in Elvis' hometown of Memphis, I found this book a tad too true to Elvis' life - less fiction and more fictionalized biography. It went on a little long, with too many details where you don't care to have them, and too few where you're dying to know more. ( )

Funny and tragic, but very human, this novel is obviously based on Elvis Presley’s rise to fame. It includes the magical realism I appreciated in [Crazy in Alabama], and creates an incredibly musical story, something that strikes me as a great literary challenge. If you like Presley, distinctively American music, Southern tales or powerful human dramas, you should enjoy this book. My only problem was the ending, a sense that it was unfinished, but that may have been because I wanted to keep on reading! ( )