.....and a lifetime to figure it out | Three Minutes on Love

Love, not simplified. | Three Minutes on Love | Roccie Hill

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	• Three Minutes on Love Roccie Hill The Permanent Press, 2008 - 288 pages average customer review:based on 17 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Roccie Hill is a master writer, Elaine Fuhr, Allbooks Review

Genre: Fiction
Title: THREE MINUTES ON LOVE
Author: Roccie Hill
Rosie Kettle's life was wild, hectic and sometimes, terrifying. Dark, dank bars, sound rooms, drugs and alcohol were her life, but she was one of the best, in fact, a rare find as a women rock photographer, normally a male dominated career. During the time of her early years as a photographer, she met a young artist, David Wilderspin. David was as new to the '60's music scene as she, and hoped to become famous like so many other musicians of the time. While their destinies included fame, their common destiny converged in a kind of passion that lasted even when so much else did not. Life apart or life together; it was wracked with uncertainty and near destruction. They would find themselves in torment and in bliss until they both realized that their needs were the same and equal.
Roccie Hill is a master writer. From lyrics for rock bands in the seventies to short stories in literary quarterlies, she has practiced her craft, developing an amazing talent in the art of storytelling. This, her first novel, also gives the reader an unexpected chance to view the intriguing life of the 60's artists, whose dreams often escaped them or fell miserably short, yet gave rock and roll its glory. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED by reviewer: Elaine Fuhr, Allbooks Reviews

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.....and a lifetime to figure it out

I tend to avoid books set in the 60s-70s like the Plague. I lived through the Era and bear no Sentimentality toward it

This book is different. Granted, it's the story of Rosie Kettle and David Wilderspin-a Photographer and Musician, respectively-set against the backdrop of wretched excess that was the Southern California music scene in the 70s...but the backdrop stays that way. This is the story of two talented people trying to "make it" and make a life against the odds...of their own temperaments and the "business' of Art.

From the giddy, erotic beginnings of Love..to the Growing pains of Marriage...to the loss of a child....the story unfolds, crumbles, but does not die. the music scene is still full of excess and greed but money is tighter..Artists still battle their demons daily. Rosie Kettle's voice rings true here...from a whisper to a scream.

I liked this book..it gave me much food for thought...Roccie Hill knows her stuff..but more than that, she knows her heart. i still avoid books set in the 60s & 70s, though.

(this is a review of an ARC)

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Love, not simplified.

This book reminded me of something. Long time ago I was dating a girl who was not exactly the best thing for me...she had a lot of excess baggage and was filling it even more as I got to know her (and discover more aspect of her). Anyway, to make a long story short, I was talking to a friend of this girl I was seeing. She told me that I should give up...and the reason I should give up was nothing obvious; it was an underlying belief that because her last boyfriend beat her, she was bound to him. I was aghast. I was also young; and I did not consider the complexities of what goes into a relationship...especially when it seems like the whole world wants you to fail.

The book Three Minutes on Love was not like that...it was not an account of an abusive man who beat the narrator into submission whenever he felt like it. Much rather, it was pages of all of the things that make love complicated.

This book was essentially plotless, but was not pointless. I feel like the point being made is that only those directly involved in the relationship can truly know what's going on. Those on the outside can judge, criticize, tell you to leave him, tell him she doesn't matter, etc., etc. Three Minutes on Love deals with the inner workings of a relationship trying its hardest to make everything right (and sometimes makes this attempt by trying to destroy it all, too). It completes this without being wishy-washy, without being whinny, and by just conveying the facts as they happen; the emotions as they are expressed; the history as it unfolds and repeats itself.

One could read this and say the narrator is a weak woman for giving in. Another could say she's a strong woman sticking to her guns. I would say she's just human, nothing more, nothing less. Overall, the point is Love is a very complicated thing, and cannot be explained in a mere three minutes (to use the irony of the book's title). It is the story of two ordinary human beings who have chosen to live under extraordinary circumstances. And it is a lovingly told story.

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Three Minutes on Love

An excellent, well written story about the old days in rock and roll Los Angeles. It was during the coming of age for us boomers and Ms. Hill's book captures the excitement and drama of that era, while introducing us to characters that are complex and real. Great reading for any age!

A Romantic Page Turner

I couldn't put this book down! Rosie and David's relationship grabbed me right from the start. Loved reading about the rock and roll scene starting from 1968 in San Francisco and LA and how the story wove its way through the years. Looking at the world through Rosie's eyes was always a visual feast.

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Rosie Kettle, quick and intuitive, leaves her small town in the California desert to attend art college in San Francisco in the late 60's, where she discovers a passion for photography and music. Through a chance meeting with a flamboyant Hungarian illegal immigrant who runs a local music newspaper, Rosie is offered her first job photographing a down-and out blues musician where she meets David Wilderspin, a young guitar sideman in the bluesman s band. Although he is only 19, David is already a survivor the estranged son of a violent, Russian choreographer, whose conflicted feelings for his father he must come to terms with.

Only days after they meet, the bluesman hangs himself. This self-destructive act changes their lives forever. David, obsessed with music and determined to be successful, quickly turns to rock and roll. For Rosie, the picture she took that night jack-knifes her into a new career as one of the first women rock photographers in a male-dominated profession. It also introduces her to the chaotic, seductive life of the music industry.

Three Minutes on Love is a novel about artistic will and human redemption, set within the southern California music business of the late 20th Century, where men in suits happily aided young, talented musicians to self-destruct. Rosie's first person narrative is a rare love story played out on a stage of celebrity and power, as David and Rosie fight their way through the destructive excess of the burgeoning rock music world, and eventually, through one of the greatest tragedies imaginable.

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