Inside the Zoo.....

Books written to strictly cash in on associations are rarely any good, and this book is no exception. Turns out the lady who wrote it was just sued by U2 last year to get back items she allegedly stole from them, which would have been during the Joshua Tree tour close to 20 years ago. So the title should be "my few months with U2." But the phrasing got suckers like me to read the thing. In fact, the author's association with the band begins and ends with this tour, yet the cover of the book has a picture of Bono taken around 2000. Not a lot of new information is given about the band, although it was interesting to note that she portrays her relationship with Bono as close-knit. It makes the reader wonder if she's pulling a James Frey here because when Bono testified in the trial against her he said not many people cared for her, and that she was hard to deal with. Not exactly the words of a close friend. I wouldn't recommend this book to even the biggest U2 fan.