This book was interesting to a point. It's just a collection of interviews with Dolly in print. The 1979 Playboy interview was quite interesting. But after a while, 300+ pages of just interviews just got to be too much to want to keep slogging through.

This book is a giant omnibus of Dolly Parton interviews from the beginning when she started off with Porter Wagoner all the way to present. The publications she did interviews with range from big time magazines to small indie 'zines. There are moments of repetition over the various interviews where Dolly repeats the same rhetoric over and over, such as the story of her upbringing. But overall this is a highly entertaining collection of interviews, because we get Dolly in all her wit and vulnerab...

Dolly Parton goes by many names Dolly Rebecca, The Book Lady, The Iron Butterfly. This book of interviews shows more of her mystique and appeal. She is one smart cookie!

Born in a little cabin in Tennessee, Dolly Parton always dreamed big, and she was right to! She wrote her first song at age five and became a country music star by the time she was in her early twenties. Of course, her success didn't stop there. Dolly Parton is also an actress, author, businesswoman, and philanthropist whose "Imagination Library" reading initiative reaches children throughout the US, Canada, and the UK. There is simply no one like Dolly PartonI've always liked Dolly Parton, and

I've always loved Dolly. She's smart and sassy and very successful, and she truly uses her money to help others. I picked this up on a whim in my local public library, and I am glad I did. Oh, there is repetition - of course! - after all, facts are facts.

Dolly is an amazing person. The compiled interviews revealed her constant evolution to a mature woman. I respect her so much as a person for it. I recommend this book for Dolly fans.

As a Dolly fan, it was pretty great to be able to read some of her interviews in one space. However, as this is a collection of interviews, everything is very repetitive. All of the interviewers ask the same questions and the same stories are told that it no longer becomes interesting.It was also a great reminder that no matter how high a pedestal I put her on, Dolly is a human with a lot of flaws, but she’s been telling us that the whole time anyway!

Enjoyable, Informative I enjoyed these interviews given at different times during Dolly’s life. You learn about her dreams, music, struggles to juggle it all, and her health issues.

At first, this was me: I get it, I get it...The good lord has blessed Dolly Parton with generous helpin’ uh crumb-catchers. And she covers ‘em in sequined chiffon. And I get it, she waves her tiny hands and tucks her tiny feet under her when she tells it to ya straight while settin’ on her coach of many colors. I wanted this book to make me like Dolly, but alas... now I can only see her as a shrewd businesswoman who talks out of both sides of her folksy little mouth, god bless her. I’m not bashi...

At first I really liked reading the interviews, but very soon it was SO repetitive, I can only hear that she is the 4th of 12 children and met Carl on her first day in Nashville, so many times! This would be a good book if you had to do research on her for some reason, but by the 4th interview I was skimming the rest of the book.Read for Beatles Challenge: “Kansas City/Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey” - Read a book with a repeat word in the title

This book was ok, a lot of information on Dolly Parton from past interviews, but it got to be very repetitive as the same material was used over and over. Since I had read several of the magazine articles over the years it was like I had already read the book.

I thought this was a nice collection of interviews with Dolly. I love her! I saw her live for the first time last year with my mother & she was fantastic!!

I must admit that my knowledge of Dolly Parton is somewhat peripheral.  In high school I went to an orchestra competition in Gatlinburg, but we did not go to Dollywood.  I come from the Appalachians myself, but a different part than she hails from.  I am familiar with her music, but generally her more pop-oriented music like "9 to 5," "I Will Always Love You," and "Islands In The Stream" and "Romeo" and later songs like "When I Get Where I'm Going," where she has collaborated with other artists....

Dolly has been interviewed so many times that it's easy to assume they're all filled with nothing but down home aphorisms—as a way to avoid any true divulgence of her self—especially since around the late 90s when the world decided she was more an icon, a media figure, than an artist. An interesting reveal from the early interviews here is that she knew from the beginning, comparing herself to Elton John (for example), that you get people in the door with "the gaude" and then show them your tale...

A collection of interviews from 1967 to 2014, Dolly on Dolly gives a little insight into the life of a very talented, driven woman. The collection is an interesting read - a chronology of Dolly's successes, failures, and battles along the way. She mentions that she'd like to have a theme park, in the next interview it's time for Dollywood to open. In the beginning, Dolly worked a lot harder to get her voice heard, she battled her image as a "Dumb Blonde" and interloper to become one of the most

Subject matter is exceptional: Dolly deserves all the credit she gets. I started the book not knowing a lot about her, and felt I got a good look at her life - I don’t think she holds a lot back, and good on her for that. She embraced her celebrity and never took herself so seriously she had to be surrounded by people that made her believe she was untouchable (a la Tom Cruise). What makes her special is her talent, mixed with incredible determination and a sense of self (and humor!). I gave the

I enjoyed reading her interviews pulled from a variety of magazines and papers. She has always had such a unique sense of humor and outlook on life. I also really related to her health issues, which she experienced at about the same time of life I am now. It was reassuring to hear a high-power, super active and successful woman have health challenges and how she overcame them. Encouraging, funny, and always Dolly, was a fun read.

I love Dolly and now I love her more! She's funny, charismatic, and giving. However, these interviews make it clear that she reveals little while being generous with her time and attention. She's a consummate showman and she's so funny!