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| Into the Void... with Ace Frehley | 
 enlarge | Author: Wendy Moore
Publisher: Pitbull Publishing
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  43 reviews
Sales Rank: 638461
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 220
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.7
ISBN: 0965879445
Dewey Decimal Number: 782
EAN: 9780965879446
ASIN: 0965879445
Publication Date: July 2004
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 When considering this book, consider the source... March 9, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
... that source being an addict (far from recovery based on this book and especially how its written) more interested in grandizing herself than telling a tale (read the other reviews). Her train of thought is scattered, much like those of someone using speed, and any skill at 'painting a picture' using words is non-existant. An editor? Even a college student who corrects high school compositions could have helped make this poorly written and narrative readable
oh, I can't spell? I know... but I am not trying to sell a book here!
A jilted groupie indeed! December 18, 2006
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
I picked this up because I am a Kiss fan, and was interested to see what Ace is really like. You get a lot of nitty gritty about Ace's life, and a lot of it is really shocking.
Wendy's writing style is pretty much flawless. She takes you into the void, and you can really feel all the madness swirling around you. You get to venture into Ace's world, but apart from that...not much else, and a lot of flaws.
My main flaw is that she portrays herself as this fallen woman. She claims to never have done drugs before meeting Ace, which I find really amazing. Towards the middle of the book, you're reading more about her misadventures with drugs and some dude named Josh who's in her band or something, and Ace just kind of floats in here and there.
I doubt a lot of stuff in this book, but I'm a bit surprised that Wendy expected to get more of a relationship out of her time with Ace. The Spaceman seems to float from girl to girl, as a good spaceman should, but why Wendy doesn't pull out of the nosedive is beyond me. Blame drugs, or Ace Frehley, I guess.
One thing that really irritated me was how Wendy kept ripping on Paul and Gene. Everyone knows what Gene is like, and he'd probably not deny that hs is, how to say, difficult, but Wendy writes about him as if he owed her something. Same thing with Paul, who seems to never really talk to Wendy, but for whom Wendy has a lot of disdain. Gee, did you ever think that maybe Paul just doesn't want to talk to you?
If you take away all the kind of "pitying" things, and read more wild chapters, it comes across as a sort of Hunter S. Thompson chronicle. Wendy's got some good tales, she just needs to be a little less biased (even though this is the story of HER journey into the void with Ace), and we could see some very good journalism come out of her in the future.
Kiss and Smell November 16, 2006
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
For two years Wendy Moore allowed her self to be defecated on (literally) by Ace Frehley and then tossed into the trash like so many others.
This book does provide some insight on how Frehley, one of rock's great young guitarists of the 1970s, sacrificed his talent and self respect in favor of drugs. Read this book and "Kiss and Tell" and you'll wonder how Frehley is even alive.
After reading the often nauseating accounts of Frehley's despicable personal life, one now understands the hell Stanley and Gene Simmons went through in dealing with him.
Nonetheless, This book was somewhat amusing until the author's character assassination on Stanley, one the classiest people in the music industry.
Paul Stanley is a rarity in rock -- a self-disciplined, sober, intelligent superstar who indeed "Lives to Win." To his credit, he does not associate with losers, hence his cool demeanor with the then drug-abusing Moore.
While Paul continues to reach even greater heights, his detractors -- Moore, Frehley, Criss, et al -- contribute NOTHING to the music industry, KISS fans or humanity.
Warning: When reading her "inside" anecdotes of life with Ace, keep a barf bag handy.
 AMAZING!! I great page-turner, I COULDN'T PUT IT DOWN! November 14, 2006
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
I have to say, this is the BEST KISS BOOK that I ever read! The day UPS dropped it off at my work, I could not wait to get home and start reading it. I was up untill 2:00am reading the whole book - I COULD NOT PUT IT DOWN! Wendy gives the reader an inside look as to all the craziness of what went on in the KISS circle during the years she was involved with Ace Frehley. Things fans would have never of known about otherwise, this is a very interesting book. In her book, Wendy also talks about her dealings with Paul Stanley. Paul only cares about "image" and appears friendly and socialable with people as long as the cameras are rolling, but as soon as the cameras are off, he is a self centered, bitter, little man, who is having a difficult time dealing with his sexuality. Wendy reveals secrets that Ace told her; including how the band walked in on Paul backstage, while he was getting oral sex for a young male fan, and that his marriage is more of a business arrangement, for "appearances". I personaly think if Paul Stanley would just come out of the closet, he would be so much more happier with his life, rather than trying to please other people, by living a lie. Perhaps maybe he should take his own advice... LIVE TO WIN.... not LIVE TO PLEASE!
I do recommend this book to anyone who loves KISS - it's a good shot in the arm of reality.
INTERESTING AFTER ALL November 12, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Ok, Wendy Moore is a groupie who took advantage of Ace's fame (What a surprise. I'm a huge Ace fan, but the man is pretty ugly to have pretty women around him). So she wanted to be featured on the pages of Playboy... when she's light years from the good looks of a playmate. So she's a loser, a drug addict. Yeah, all true... But she tells stories from the inside world of KISS that otherwise you wouldn't know. I found the book very interesting from cover to cover. So Paul Stanley was not nice to her? I don't blame him!! He probably saw the kind of parasite she was and didn't want to have anything to do with her. Worth reading.
Signed:A KISS fan for 25 years.
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