Janis

I was looking forward to this biography about Janis Joplin. The majority of the book was really good: Holly George-Warren meticulously researched and recounted Janis's early days in Port Arthur, Texas: her family life, her high school and friends, and then moved on to talk about San Francisco and the start of her time singing with Big Brother and the Holding Company. But the last bit of the book felt really thin: she got to the last two years of Janis's life and then basically sketched them out without much substance. I don't know if she thought that the stories of Janis's success and sudden early death had been told so many times already they weren't worth repeating, but it was a little disappointing, since the book had been so good up to that point. I still enjoyed it, I just wish the ending wouldn't have felt so rushed.