I love Miss Dolly and was really hoping for an engaging biography about her life, but it read like a dry academic paper (complete with teeny tiny footnotes I had to strain to read). As someone who has read a lot of dry academic papers for school and work, I can attest that it's not really the genre I want for casual reading.
At least the author did a nice job of showing how smart Dolly is. She said no to Colonel Tom Parker and Elvis when they wanted to record her song "I Will Always Love You". As much as she wanted Elvis to sing it (me too. Can you imagine how amazing that would have been?) she wasn't willing to give up 50% or all of her copyright, which was the only way the Colonel would let Elvis record it. Smart move in the long run.
She's been working hard her whole life and brings a lot of joy to a lot of people and sadly, she deserves better than this. Hopefully a better biography will turn up one day. Or she could update the one she wrote a few decades ago.
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