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'Overblown and overhyped' - new book about Diana
« on: June 27, 2007, 09:13:48 AM »
http://books.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2112299,00.html

If this reviewer is right, I can't believe it's been published like this!
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life. ~ John Lennon


Re: 'Overblown and overhyped' - new book about Diana
« Reply #1 on: June 27, 2007, 09:18:40 AM »
It got a great review in the Sunday Times.


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Re: 'Overblown and overhyped' - new book about Diana
« Reply #2 on: June 27, 2007, 05:34:54 PM »
Every review I have read has said it's rubbish, and that all of the 'revelations' contained within are old stories which have appeared elsewhere before.

Vicky


Re: 'Overblown and overhyped' - new book about Diana
« Reply #3 on: June 27, 2007, 05:49:35 PM »
Wow. That review in the link utterly slays the book. After reading such a review that not only accuses the author of name dropping, self-insertion, false information and details, and stolen facts (where there are facts), I can't imagine reading a good review that would redeem the book enough for me to want to read it.


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Re: 'Overblown and overhyped' - new book about Diana
« Reply #4 on: June 28, 2007, 08:18:21 AM »
I can't imagine reading any book (about Diana) at this point, but this one sounds particularly horrid.  My opinion that doesn't always go over well with gawkers is her life has been thrashed over and over and over.  Please, let the woman rest in peace!  It's as if in her tragic death she sealed her fate to eternally be subject to the insanity that often made much of her life miserable in the first place and probably even contributed to her ultimate death.
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Re: 'Overblown and overhyped' - new book about Diana
« Reply #5 on: June 28, 2007, 08:32:56 AM »
Also, it is a really really ugly pink color and every time someone buys one it burns out my retinas.


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