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Advantages: honest, well balanced, written from the heart autobiography
Disadvantages: none

There cannot be many people who have heard of Royston Vasey although his alter ego, Roy "Chubby" Brown is well known to millions and there's no doubt many will have an opinion of him. I would wager that there are few people who sit on the fence where Chubby is concerned. He is very much an acquired taste and never makes any apologies for this. You will either love him or hate him. For the uninitiated, Chubby is a stand up comedian who operates very ...
...times) in terms of his act, which has seen him banned on TV but who has a huge, cult following in both clubland and via his DVD sales. When I saw his book recently on a buy one get one half price offer at WH Smiths I thought I would buy it on the basis there are bound to be one or two laughs within it so thought it a worthwhile purchase to while away some time around the pool on my impending holiday. I was expecting the usual fare that seems to ... Read review

Advantages: you dont have to read to understand his carrer
Disadvantages: nothing

today i will be reviewing shane warnes official illustrated carrer. the book is about the amazing and eventful carrer pictures taking you it also has him as a baby right through until he is a adult from his first ball he ever bowled to this day each picture has captions of what the picture is about. this book is the sort of thing that you can sit down and read time after time and never get bord. after all shane warnes carrer was anything but ...
...back on the times when shane warne was at his best this book provides great infomation about his amazing carrer if you can get this book under £15.00 then you have got an excellant bargin my opinion love this book such a good book always worth looking at thanks for reading this review ... Read review

Advantages: Well-rounded, objective picture of the man and his times
Disadvantages: Lacks index

Ian Dury was a complete one-off. Stricken with polio in childhood, born in middle-class Harrow but determined to shake off such origins to the extent of acquiring a real Cockney accent, he became an art school rebel whose early pub-rock experiences, as front man of Kilburn & the High Roads, led to one frustrating move after another. But he came out smiling, briefly, with the music sea change that was punk and new wave from the end of 1976 onwards ...
...to take Britain by the scruff of the neck, hitting the Top 10 with "What A Waste" and going all the way to No. 1 with "Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick". After that it went pear-shaped, and a short career in films and associated avenues beckoned, before he started working for children's and cancer charities, and returning to the music scene as a much-beloved elder statesman of rock. Few will forget those moving last appearances on record and TV with ... Read review

Advantages: Fabulous twisting of the English language
Disadvantages: May not appeal to those of a weak disposition

My Booky wook is a brutally honest biography of the English dandy Russel Brand. He may fool us with his massive hair and strange twistings of the english language but Brand opens up and lets us enter what became a drug fueled hedonism jumping from extreme highs to dangerous lows. When I first saw the book I knew I wanted to read it, with a name like 'My booky wook' written in slightly blurred neon pink, it perfectly reflects Brand's unique sense ...
...of what else is included here are some of the chapter names (in no particular order), - umbilical noose - boobaloo - Dagenham is not Damascus - First class twit - A gentleman with a bike This book begins and ends with Russel in a sex addiction clinic everything in between re-enforces why it was probably a good idea that he ended up there. Following his life so far, from baby to bounder we see how the women in Russel's life played a key role ... Read review

Advantages: Inspiring, Inspring, Inspiring
Disadvantages: You whant to read it again and again

If you don't know who Richard Branson is...don't panic, you will soon discover one of the world's greatest business men ever! This book has a gripping and most inspiring influence once you start to read it. This is not the type of book you read to get a theory in business, this is the type of book that will release the zeal to do business and the need to be great! Reading this book will most certainly inspire you to action. The start of such a massive ...
...no for an answer. It is fun and astonishing to experience the way this man's head works. It is pure genius. The book is written in plain English and the integrity and honesty of the man shows on every page. By now you would have realised that Branson is one of a kind. Get the book! ... Read review