Book Review ” The John Lennon Letters” edited by Hunter Davies

Words.

Words are in everything. John Lennon is one of the greatest songwriters. Over 300 postcards and letters have been collected and threaded together into a delightful journey. A journey into John’s words, thoughts and processes over time. It is an unlikely culinary thread. The thread is the clear organization of thought.

The Imperial typewriter and LP’s are only a part of John Lennon’s communication tools that captured words.  John Lennon’s letters are often satirical. The songs are some of the best. The John Lennon Letters is a recipe book of thought, words, imagination that is well organized. I enjoyed reading Hunter Davis’s contextualized John’s letters..

ISBN 978-0-316-20080-6