How's Your Dad: Living in the Shadow of a Rock Star Parent

Makes you laugh and cry as you read how children conform or revolt against their rockstar parents.

What a horrible disappointment. This book is poorly written and contains numerous errors - both spelling and grammatical. I don't know where this woman got the idea that she can write, because she can't, and would benefit from an honest critique.Even worse than the poor writing is the fact that a lot of the stories have been copied from other sources - some are fully plagiarized. I've read so many of these stories before, either in other books or in magazines, that I was stunned that this book was actually published.I wish my review wasn't so harsh. I wanted to like the book, and I tried. It's a great concept, and because the author is married to a musician's son, she likely has access to children of many famous musicians. I'm sure that the author tried to write a good book, and if she had used original material, and had a very good editor, she might have been able to pull it off.Bottom line - don't waste your money.

Have to admit that I love behind the scenes books about rock stars. I loved I'm With the Band by Pamela Des Barres, the books about the Beatles, and all the dirt published on the Rolling Stones. Didn't matter that these were all before my time, I still got a kick out of the up-close-and-personal look at life as a wild rock star. So when I was offered the opportunity to review a book about said rock star's children, I thought it would be interesting to see them from their child's perspective.While I really like the premise of this book, I don't think it ultimately delivered. May have been because I didn't know many of the rock stars mentioned (Ian Dury? Marc Bolen? Steve Howe?), or may have been the feeling I got after finishing the book that it had just skimmed the surface. I was left wanting more.The author kept coming back to Steve Howe and his family, which made sense as she's married to Steve's son Dylan. I have heard of the group Yes but couldn't tell you the member's names, so glad she told us who was who. And while I have heard of Bob Geldof, there seemed to be an awful lot about his daughters, especially Peaches. Guess she's a regular in the British tabloids, but I'm not all that interested.All in all, this wasn't really the book I was expecting. It's a good overview about how expectations are high if your parent is famous, but we sort of already knew that. Would have liked either a broader sampling of children, or a more in-depth focus on just one or two. Not a bad book, just not great either.