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Advantages: Enjoyable and can keep you occupied all day
Disadvantages: A few chapters are not acceptable for narrow minded people

I have totally edited this reveiw. It is my first reveiw and noticed i can make it alot better and thanks to everyones suggestions, i have decided to edit it completely. This book is about a boy who, at an early age, loses his mother. She was the first victim of the Yorkshire Ripper. He and his sisters go and live at an orphanage until their father turn up and they go and live with him. In time, the boy grows up and has many experiances in life. ...
...can't talk about his mothers death as his father banished anyone ever talking about it. He's still trying to come to terms with his mothers death and has no one to talk to. However, he still manages to move on and this proves to others that life does go on. This book is avaliable at all good book shops. I got mine from WHSmith and is £6.99 ... Read review

Advantages: Detailled and insightful
Disadvantages: Slightly long in parts

I agree with the previous review that after reading several biographies this was far more indepth, shocking and exciting. There are several biographies that portrayed Jimmy as a Brad Pitt pin up of his time, however he had quite a complex character. This book tells you about some interesting charcters he met in New York and then LA including Marlon Brando who was a hero to Dean, it shows how driven he was to becoming an actor. It details the many ... Read review

Advantages: It's about Jeremy Clarkson
Disadvantages: Spelling mistakes, poor grammar, repetition, bad prose - they all destroy a good read

Jeremy Clarkson is the roguish motoring journalist and TV presenter many love to hate. For almost twenty years now, Clarkson has been making headlines with his controversial points of view, witty retorts, salacious references and contentious pieces of automobile journalism. Larger than life, both in stature and society, Jeremy Clarkson has made a successful career by saying the wrong thing at the right time. It would be reasonable to think, then, ...
...then. The book. Jeremy Clarkson - The Biography. And it has to be said that, if I were Clarkson, I'd be a touch embarrassed. It's a bloody shame that it's not an autobiography; a book about himself, by him, would undoubtedly be much more interesting than what we've got: a book about him, written by somebody else. Gwen Russell is, apparently, a successful journalist specialising in the celebrity circuit. Unfortunately, this book does not do her ... Read review

Advantages: She talks indepth more about Harvey's medical conditions
Disadvantages: Way Too muich about her and Peter in bed and how much she loves him

A Whole New World is another instalment in the life of Katie Price or Jordan. I read one of her previous books and was very surprised at how down to Earth and how hard she worked to achieve what she had. I was expecting the same greatness from this book. Unfortunately I was disappointed. The book has a picture of Katie on the cover and the title in small letters at the bottom. Down the side of the cover is the name Jordan, this has been put there ...
...entirely by Katie and not by her working status as Jordan. The back of the book has another picture of Katie lying on a pink background with some quotes by magazines saying what a good book this is. THE BOOK AND MY OPINION There are 9 chapter in the book. The first chapter is solely about her time coming out of the jungle and how hard she tried to get into contact with Peter Andre so she could tell him just how she felt about him. She talks about ... Read review

Advantages: Well written, easy to read
Disadvantages: Nothing new, its all been written before

Madonna - love her or loathe her, it seems that everyone has an opinion about her. With a career that now spans over 25 years her rise to fame from the early days when she first arrived in New York, penniless but with huge ambitions has been well documented many times. Madonna - Queen of the world by Douglas Thompson could at first glance quite easily be dismissed as yet another regurgitated account of Madonna's rise to fame but from the sleeve notes ...
...that everyone claims to already know everything there is to know about. Madonna has given many interviews throughout her life. Usually these interviews are carefully timed to coincide with her latest project, be it a new album, movie, book or other project and the new image that compliments the project is always flaunted to its maximum effect. When it comes to being interviewed Madonna always calls the shots, so how can anyone really expect to know ... Read review