The Truth About Diamonds - Nicole Richie

== Tell me the truth, Nicole Richie ==
[A review of her novel "The truth about diamonds"]




_What is it?_
_"The truth about diamonds"_ is a novel by celebrity Nicole Richie. This book tells a bit
of her life, but written from an interesting perspective. Nicole Richie writes as the best
friend of a girl named Chloe. Chloe goes through similar events to what Nicole Richie
.../> friends she described in the novel and she also does very well at oberserving her own
behaviour in the past and projecting it into Chloe.


_Who is Nicole Richie?_
Nicole Richie is singer Lionel Rcihie's adopted daughter. She used to be best friends
with Paris Hilton and became famous by staring in "The simple life" with her.
"The simple life" had the two rich girls swearing off the ... more

Tell me the truth, Nicole Richie

[A review of her novel "The truth about diamonds"]

What is it?
"The truth about diamonds" is a novel by celebrity Nicole Richie. This book tells a bit
of her life, but written from an interesting perspective. Nicole Richie writes as the best
friend of a girl named Chloe. Chloe goes through similar events to what Nicole Richie
has gone through in her real life - being adopted, taking drugs, becoming famous
and making vicious friends. Thus Nicole Richie avoids ridiculing herself, hurting the
friends she described in the novel and she also does very well at oberserving her own
behaviour in the past and projecting it into Chloe.

Who is Nicole Richie?
Nicole Richie is singer Lionel Rcihie's adopted daughter. She used to be best friends
with Paris Hilton and became famous by staring in "The simple life" with her.
"The simple life" had the two rich girls swearing off the glamour life for a while to
travel the country and life with 'normal' families. The show was a grat success and
went into fours rounds. When Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie had a major fall out,
the show was continued with the girls competing at helping out a family.
Nicole's fame went up to It Girl status when she started working as a photo model.
While she had been shapely before, she lost an immense amount of weight. She
was all across the magazines and it was assumed that she is anorexic.
Nicole Richie now has a daughter with her boyfriend Benji Madden and is
expecting another child. She seems to be happy and healthy.

The Truth About Diamonds

The plot
Chloe parker is a rock royalty princess. After a rich rockstar adopted her, her life
became an exciting whirlwind in Hollywoods VIP lists. But that also means getting
into contact with drugs and finding friends who are not what they appear to be.
When Chloe's friend Simone wants Chloe to hop on board of a national make up
campaign that will run a documentary on the two, Chloe's path to fame seems to
be set. When she discovers that Simone is not the good friend she appears to
be, Chloe decided to do her own thing.
Nicole Richie is the speaker in this novel and tells us the story as a good friend who
meets Chloe in various states of mind.
Of course, this novel seems to be one big metaphor for Nicole Richie's own life.
She is Chloe while Simone equals Paris Hilton. The documented campaign
is a hint at "The Simple Life" in which Nicole Richie and Paris Hilton starred.
If you know a lot about Nicole Richie and her life, you will love figuring out who's who
in this novel.

What the book looks like
I have the beautiful hardcover version here. The books is black woth a wrapped-around
cover sporting a big photograph of Nicole Richie wearing a big tiara and looking
quite sad. The title of the novel is written in beautiful curvy letters and below that
it says "A Novel" in capital leters. Below that we get Nicole Richie's name in bigger,
capital letters.
On the back of the book there is a picture of Nicole as a ballerina on a little stage.
She is skinny, tanned and smiiling. There is also a barcode.
On the insides of this sleeve we get a little summary of the book and a passage
from the book. There is also a short biography on Nicole.
It has been published by Harper Collins.

Inside the book
The book has 224 pages plus two pages of aknowledgements.
In the middle of the book there are more photographs of Nicole as her character
Chloe whcih symbolize and illustrate how Chloe changes through out the book.
The first picture shows Nicole Richie with the crown she wears on the cover photo,
but smiling and in a slightly different pose. On the next two pages we get more
photographs of her in pink ballerina attire. She looks really beautiful and innocent
in those pictures. The next two photographs show her as a school girl writing
"I will be a good girl" on a blackboard. I believe these pictures came from a
fashion shoot.
The next photograph covers two pages and show Nicole tarted up with bright
blue eyeshadow and a golden dress standing between little Las Vegas signs. These
photographs should probably symbolize how Chloe changes when she becomes
best friends with Simone. The next picture also covers to pages and shows her
lying between the Vegas signs.
The next picture is quite sad - it shows Nicole Richie with run black make up,
gazing at the photographer through glasses and bottles of champagne. The next
pages shows another version of this picture, but with another one of Nicole all
cleaned up again next to it.
The last two photographs show Nicole in a white dress, looking better and clean
again, but more grown up and serious than the pictures of her with the crown.
The photographs illustrate Chloe's changes really well.

Why I like the book
I've been fascinated with Nicole Richie since I saw "The simple life" for the first
time. She is really witty and funny and while she is always dressed up to the max
in some way, she always behaves like she couldn't care less. She has grown up
to have an even better fashion sense now and she has proven that the change
from party girl to caring mother can be done.
It must have taken her a lot of courage to turn her back to Paris Hilton - she could
have stayed in her lime light forever but she chose not to. She did her own thing
and succeeded, being the talk of the walk, getting model job and appearing in
almost every magazine in the world.
She has become just as famous as Paris and her book outranks the memoir
book Paris Hilton 'wrote'. While Nicole Richie has written her book herself, Paris
Hilton had someone write it for her and gathered a few photographs.
Nicole Richie has a very cool and casual way of writing without sounding silly. The
speech is posh but not silly posh.

Price
I ordered this book in Amazon and paid $23.95 since it's a hardcover.
The paperback is available on Amazon.co.uk for £7.19.

Recommendation
The book is like a serious turn on chic-lit. No wild shopping sprees and boyfriend
trouble are the main themes here, but false friends, society problems and drugs.
If you want to get a glimpse at It Girl life (or want to see what an It Girl writes like),
I highly recommend this book. I think Nicole Richie has a lot of courage to write
about herself in such a criticising way and the result is absolutely good for a first
novel.
You will like this book if you like celebrities, drug stories and Hollywood Insight.

4 stars from me! :) 

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