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| Woodstock '69 Festival - 3 Days of Peace and Music | 
 enlarge | Author: Christopher Van Loan
Publisher: E-BookTime, LLC
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (5 reviews)
Sales Rank: 657447
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 56
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 8.7 x 5.6 x 0.5
ISBN: 1598247530
Dewey Decimal Number: 973
EAN: 9781598247534
ASIN: 1598247530
Publication Date: December 20, 2007
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Product Description
Come to the Catskills for three days of peace and music. That's how the Woodstock Festival was advertised to sell tickets. What the promoter expected was a crowd of 10,000 to 50,000 people. But what came to Woodstock was not what they expected. A crowd of more than 500,000 people showed up. This book is a behind the scenes look at what went on at the Woodstock '69 Festival.
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 A POORLY RESEARCHED & POORLY WRITTEN BOOK! August 21, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I purchased this book along with the movie as I was preparing a music history lecture. Needless to say, I was in shock when I opened the 53 page book only to find only 26 pages of text, and the remainder of the book contained photos of the Woodstock site. The photos contained NO CAPTIONS!! So it was impossible for the reader to understand what the photos were of.
The chapters were very short, and poorly written. For example, the chapter entitled "The Clean Up", was only 3 typed pages! It is amazing that the massive clean up effort could be written about in just 3 short pages!!
I read the entire book during my lunch break at my job. And I still had plenty of time left over to eat a full meal!
Don't waste you hard earned money. You'll learn more about Woodstock by purchasing the movie!
JOHN SMITHKEY III
Music Instructor
not a good read August 11, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is one of the worst books I have read on Woodstock. Some facts are wrong and the book is overall poorly written.
Not well written May 27, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
My 17-year-old daughter purchased this book to use as a reference for a project on Woodstock for her history class. This is her reaction after reading it:
"There were so many errors in grammar and punctuation it was a joke to read. The information was more comical than helpful, and almost everything I read was redundant or just had ridiculously wrong word choices. For example, one sentence reads: `Who would of believed so many people would come to see Woodstock '69 and what a collection of musicians they had all the most popular bands.' (Page 16) I had to read and re-read this sentence just to prove to myself that it really was as poorly written as I was imagining. Correct me if I am wrong but I believe the accurate phrase would be "would have" not "would of." That in addition to the sentence not being a complete thought whatsoever is just one small example of the incompetence of this book. To be honest, I wrote essays in seventh grade that were edited better than Mr. Van Loan's book was. It is an understatement to say he needed a better editor; I don't believe he had one at all. After reading his entire account of Woodstock, I only found a couple of facts I could use for my report. This book is a pathetic attempt at writing and it would serve the author well to take several writing and editing classes ... or just never pick up a pen or pencil ever again."
A little harsh? Perhaps. But she shared with me a number of other writing examples as she read the book, and she's probably close to the truth. This is a good book to avoid if you are serious about the history of this epochal event in rock history.
 Unique perspective May 20, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I gave this book four stars because it wouldn't let me do three and a half, which I think is more realistic. If you don't mind the quaint and colloquial nature of the book this is an idiosyncratic look at the Woodstock 69 festival from a native's point of view. Definitely an emerging writer.
Woodstock May 9, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is not what I expected. It has lots of potential but it really needs an editor to sit down with the writer.
I'd like the writer to try again.
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