Customer Reviews

The King Is Dead

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I liked this book. It was a comfort to me as a huge Elvis fan to know that he was cared for properly in death. It wasn't just another name drop and tell bad stories on Elvis. This book is very specific about the unfolding of his death from someone who was really there. One of the best books I've read on The King. Essential for true fans.

This is a terrific book- very honest and moving. You'll feel like you're right there at the funeral. This a book for the true Elvis fan.

I was absolutely appalled by the grammatical errors, incomplete sentences and run-on sentences, typos, misspelled words, and total lack of appropriate use of the English language. I think Robert Holton and Robert Kendall are two morons that rushed out a book not once but twice with absolute lack of editing. I don't think Robert Kendall really exerted himself with the funeral of Elvis Presley. I think he had his nose in a lot of the funeral preparation that wasn't his business. He acted like he was Elvis himself after a concert when the funeral was over. The lack of sleep and the long hours put into the funeral. I like how he reprimanded an employee of the funeral home for calling Vernon Presley the "old man" and he does it himself several times after that in the book. On one page, Gladys Presley died at 46 years of age and the next page it is 42 years of age. It was 46 years of age. This book only makes one thing absolutely clear that many books before and since have made- the saddest part of Elvis Presley is all the idiots that made money from a wonderful talented human being.

This book was pretty good. I could not give it 5 stars because I felt it may have been written to make money off of the death of Elvis. One thing in the book that makes a lot of sense is in many other Elvis books people talk of a large tree branch falling as they take Elvis out of Graceland for the last time. well Robert tells us the branch was cut by one of the Helicopters in the area trying to get pictures of the scene, I do not know if that is true but it does explain why the tree branch fell. Robert also tells us about the many talks he had with Vernon about moving Elvis and his Mother to Graceland and how that was carried out. This book is not a bad read at all but I hope is was written for Elvis and not for the money.

Elvis Presley died 22 years ago and people like Robert Holton and Lisa Burrell are STILL trying to make money off his death with rehashed details of his tragic demise. Nothing new here that has not been already printed in the over 20 books written about Elvis' death. Just two more Elvis exploiters with dollar signs in their eyes instead of new, relevant information in their book.