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Are you a Neil Diamond Fan? Then you’re going to want to read He Is . . . I Say: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Neil Diamond, a biographical sketch of Neil Diamond written by David Wild. Booklist calls the book “affectionate and touching”, describing it as part biography, part autobiography. What makes is part auto-biography is the fact that the book isn’t specifically about Neil Diamond. The book is about David Wild’s experience as a Neil Diamond fan. The book contains biographical information about Neil Diamond based on research and also on Wild’s personal encounters with the legend.

According to the Publisher’s Weekly review of the book, it is really “a book-length case of pure, unapologetic fandom that traces every step of Diamond’s life, from his childhood in Brooklyn and his rise to fame in the 1960s and ’70s to his most recent comeback albums”.

Other reviewers promise that if you are a true Neil Diamond fan you are going to enjoy the book because it is “fast, breezy and humorous”, as well as excellent and witty. The Palm Beach Post calls the book “one of the best pop books of the year”. The 224 page book is published by Da Capo Press and is available in hardcover. You can also get the book on amazon kindle.

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