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Summary: Great, if you're a fan of Diana's
Review: This book tells the story of Diana, Princess of Wales through her own eyes. It shows that she is vulnerable, just like everyone. Diana may not have been an angel, but she did deserve to have happiness which she sought her entire marriage. This books walks the reader through her early childhood years through her tragic death. It shows some honesty in the pain which she felt from her parents' divorce and later, Camilla Parker-Bowles. Anyone who is a fan of Princess Diana will sympathize along with the book. There are wonderful photographs of Diana during her childhood, with her sons and the final poignant picture of her coffin adorned with roses and a card saying "Mummy" scrawled by Prince Harry.
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Summary: The best biography of Diana to date.
Review: Well written account of Diana's tragic life, without being maudlin or fawning. Transcripts of audiotapes made by Diana specifically for this book give depth to the biography. Excellent color photographs, many from personal albums belonging to her brother, the present Earl Spencer. Not a one-sided narrative, as the pro-Diana author doesn't attempt to camouflage his subject's faults and failings. He presents a balanced analysis of a deeply troubled young woman whose agonizing ten-year battle with Bulimia Nervosa was triggered by one of many cruel remarks made by Charles. Although scathing, his commentaries on the British royal family's brutal treatment of Diana are unemotional and thoroughly documented. The anachronistic royals are indeed a shockingly inhumane bunch.
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Summary: Talk about use someone.
Review: Okay, when this book first came out (when Diana was alive), I would have given this book a much higher rating because it was obvious to all of us that she wanted the facts of her life to be known and had given Mister Morton permission to write it. But, I never read it back then. I read it a few months after her death and have to say, although the book was informative and obviously could not have been written without Diana's help, the only reason Morton re-released it with her handwritten notes was to make a buck. He could care less about her tramatic life. She would NEVER have allowed him to openly admit she was behind the book. By making this fact common knowledge, Morton made her look bad to her boys, her family and basically, the world! I thought James Hewitt was a bit on the low side but Morton is an even slimier lowlife in my book!
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Summary: Good, but definitely one sided
Review: This book has been called "the longest divorce petition in history", and when you read it, you would have to agree with that statement. But what you have to remember is that at the time when Diana agreed to co-operate with Mr Morton, she was feeling sad, lonely, and unhappy, but she was never allowed to express that publicly. She was unhappy with her life, unhappy with her royal image, and most of all, unhappy with her marriage, yet she couldn't do what anyone else in that situation would be able to do - she couldn't visit a local solicitor and obtain a divorce. Poor woman, she couldn't even go to the gym without being followed by a throng of photographers.When this book was published in 1992, it was dismissed by the establishemnt as being a pack of lies, but ultimately they, and the public too, discovered that it wasn't when Charles admitted his infidelity with the redoubtably ugly and gauche Camilla Parker Bowles, and when, in her astonishingly frank Panorama interview, Diana candidly shared the harrowing details of her eating disorder, bulimia. This book succeeded on many levels. It certainly exposed the shocking truth about the Royal marriage and portrayed the Royal Family, for the first time ever, not as cherished icons but as ordinary individuals with more than their share of character defects (and this means Diana, too!) But it ultimately succeeded in its portrayal of an immature twenty year old girl, who won the hearts of the world when she kissed the Prince, only to have him become a toad, to the beautiful, compassionate symbol of kindness, caring, and humanity that she was when she was so tragically snatched away from the world. For it was the publication of this book that enabled Diana to seek a new life for herself, and in doing so she developed the character traits that enabled us all to fall in love her, this time more completely, again and again and again.
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Summary: This book is truly a book you will never forget
Review: this book that i have read of diana has been a great success i am doing a project on her biography and i think that i need more info on it cause it really doesn't explain that much it only talks about the basics in life and you really need to know more if you have to include it in a presentation!
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Summary: Fulfilling, if one-sided, biography
Review: This book lays bare Diana's marriage difficulties with Charles. One is left with the question--why did they ever marry? (It's obvious from the book that Charles never stopped loving Camilla). One bright spot of this book is how Morton shows Diana's growing social awareness--she really comes into her own in this arena. Her devotion to one AIDS patient is particularly revealing. The one shortcoming of this book is that the victim bit is really played out; it is obvious on several occasions (particularly in her relations with the royal family) that you are only hearing one side of the story. But otherwise, this book is well worth it.
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Summary: Frightfully awful book darling!
Review: Picked up a copy of this book thingy while I was waiting for my Concorde flight the other day (Bruce and Demi were late, as usual). Poor Di really had a hard time with this Morton chappie, what with the bulimia and the suicide attempts just to avoid the publishing deadlines. Still, it does include some wizard photos of lovely Dodi, and the cover matches my Prada handbag and Gucci phone perfectly! Don't forget to wear your seatbelts, darlings! Those concrete pillars are such a nuisance, aren't they? Mwah!
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Summary: Really fullfiling book on Di
Review: The first time I decided to read this book was because I have a friend who is very big Diana fan and as he was all the time talking about her so I decided to read the book. This is a book that clears every thing up, in her childhood, adult life before and after marrying charles. In the book We learn how she coped with the problems in her life and what a strong woman she became. Andrew Morton does her credit in this book , and I sudjest it to all Diana or no Diana fans.
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Summary: ATRULEY WONDERFUL BOOK! Worthmore then five pionts!
Review: This book, did jump around a lot, and was not written in the best way, but the satory itself is heart breaking, and I was reading the reviews and some of the people are very cruel hearted. I went through bulimia, and it is a very serious issus and I believe that all the changes around her and the unsupportiveness, from the royal family, and her husband were a factor, not to say that it wasn't also partly her fault, bulimia is a mental desise and you really have to help yourself, and that would be a very hard thing to do with no one supporting her and incuriging her, and before you dismiss this review as corny and stupid, just image you, yourself going through something like that, and as hard you try you just CAN"T break through the self hate, and it's hard it took me a long time to do what I did. I think that this is an amazingly true story and is a must read for anyone with a heart.
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Summary: wow!!!
Review: This book left me totally breathless. It shines a whole new light on the princess' life. It leaves you full of sorrow, understanding, and love for such a strong and great person.
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