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Advantages: Lively and provocative account
Disadvantages: Strongly opinionated

As an ambitious young journalist in the 1960's, Janet Street Porter worked and socialised with many upcoming artists and designers of her generation in London. Street-Porter has maintained a high media profile for several years, appearing on arts shows and presenting her own series - she once did one on long distance walking. She has worked as Editor of the Independent on Sunday, and still contributes a regular column for the Independent. You may ...
...still setting the world to rights. Recently she has become known for TV reality shows - forgive me if I did not mention this first, but its been a while since I actually watched any. She says, that she prefers to mix the serious stuff in with the 'froth'. This is the second volume of her life story. I had not read the first one, 'Baggage', and both volumes have had a somewhat mixed reception. It is an eclectic mix of memoir with a rather brief attempt ... Read review

Advantages: You will never forget the experience and will open your eyes
Disadvantages: Someone had to suffer to bring us this story.

When i started reading this book my heart was not prepared for the journey i was about to undertake. The front cover gives you an idea how intense the book is likely to be but until you actually get into it you have not idea of the intensity or detail that Julia takes you through from start to finish. I guarantee that you will not want to put this book down even though at parts you will find it difficult to read when it becomes very detailed but ...
...book and leave it closed... yes i tried and failed miserably, and you will feel like her best friend willing her and supporting her through the hard times and difficulties you will face. You will want to talk to her to give her advice and feel frustrated that even though you are talking to her through a book she cant actually hear you and you want to there for her and guide her. I actually read this book from start to finish in a day - and got severely ... Read review

Advantages: well written, gets you involved, doesn't spend ages on the politics
Disadvantages: You don't want it to finish and you may want to be him!

...he strikes me as being a man who has met hundreds of very interesting people and has seen places that I can only dream of going in daydreams or nightmares. It is not all terrible war stories though, there are parts that will have you laughing out loud such as the interview he did with Colonel Gadhafi in 1998 which the Colonel himself was constantly breaking wind, him and his team crawling past a customs desk on their hands and knees due to lack of ...
...This book is a must read for anyone – I have to admit I am very slack when it comes to current affairs and history but this book isn’t about the wars its about the people he met and the places he has been. The other details: ISBN number: 0-330-35567-8 Book price £7.99 but is on Amazon for £6.39 new and cheaper for used copies. It has been published by Pan Macmilliam books, URL http://www.panmacmillian.com Photos – which are also stunning - are ... Read review

Advantages: Great detail and insight
Disadvantages: Upsetting in parts

Fantastic Book I would definitely recommend this book to anyone. It really is a brilliant read. It gives a deep insight into the war going on in Iraq from a woman's point of view. The torture and pain they go through. It is a great book which is very relevant to today's society. It is extremely interesting and wouldn't want to say a lot about it or else it would just spoil it. You have to read it for yourself to understand it and to realise ... Read review

Advantages: A humorous,factual and totally absorbing red.you discover what actually happened on the spot
Disadvantages: None to speak of.

I much admired the way John and his team endureed severe hardship and great courage in braving out the most dangerous and arduous conditions and the loyalty and cameraderie shown by the team.It wasparticularly useful to understand how much time & effort goes into an operation on the ground hours of toil which is related into several seconds on camera as allowed by the producers,they make it appear so simple ,so easy, while the reverse is true.The ...
...the American correspondants and the pressure they under to focus on good news rather than bad in order to keep the American tuning in to the programme.John goes to great lengths to praise the work of others while underplaying his own part in producing the final transmission.His command of the Englih language is also a great factor in enhancing a rattling good read.It is essential reading for liesure periods ,holidays where one has time to read in ... Read review