Although Run Rose Run by
Dolly Parton and James Patterson has been panned by others as boring
and dull, and the parts narrated by Dolly herself may have seemed trite
and unworthy of her lustrous career, I enjoyed the book on Audible. This
is not great literature, but there was a lot of Dolly in it. Dolly
played the role of Ruthana Ryder, a retired country singing legend, and
surely some of this work was partially autobiographical. Ruthana decided
to take Annie Lee Keyes under her wing without knowing the darkness of
Annie Lee (nee Ruth McCord) Keye’s past. Ruthana took the very talented
and beautiful Annie Lee and helped her get breaks that would not have
come otherwise. As a result, her rise to stardom was rapid. However, the
past would not let her go and continued to pursue her. I found the
protagonist to be possible. While I was willing to suspend my sense of
reality testing, the book was just fun.
While
I typically prefer to read books and not to listen to them, I’m a fan
of Dolly, and I loved listening to her. I also liked the auxilliary
characters. Perhaps this novel should be considered an airplane book,
something you could enjoy on a cross country flight, just for the
entertainment of it.
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