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Summary: Great Book!
Review: I thought this book was great from beginning to end. It shows how Jill Castle is munipliating Toby Temple. And how in Hollywood it is not that easy to become an actress or actor.
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Summary: A show business Masterpiece from an insider!!
Review: Sheldon strikes a different kind of chord with this novel, in the fact that this is more than anything else a poignant love story, a sort of contemporary Romeo & Juliet..the world of show business is depicted in the realistic way only an insider like the author could show, and the story illustrates the pains both main characters, Toby Temple and Jill Castle, overcome, the humiliation and troubles from the past they forcefully bury, or try to..to become worldwide successes... a solid, good read, and heavily dramatic.
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Summary: The Best book on the Entertainment Industry I have Ever Read
Review: This can be called one of the best books of the Great Author Sidney Sheldon. This book has all the aspects which Sidney Sheldon is famous For. Its got a great background, wonderful story line and a fantastic conclusion. It has all aspects a book should have like struggle, power, romance and sex. You would regret if you missed this.
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Summary: The dark side of Hollywood
Review: This is the behind-the-scenes story of megastar Toby Temple. He rose from poverty to become the biggest entertainer on TV and in the movies, as well as a first-class heel who used and discarded everyone in his path. It is also the story of Jill Temple who ran off to Hollywood with stars in her eyes, but never got her big break, despite experiencing every casting couch in town. She and Toby marry, and then she uses her new power to destroy those who hurt her. Little did she know it would all end in murder.
This novel is a departure for Sidney Sheldon, who usually writes thrillers with beautiful, young heroines facing disaster every few pages. He does know show biz, however, being a prolific Oscar and Emmy-winning writer. Here he creates two characters who manage to be sympathetic despite being completely without scruples, and you'll find the book hard to put down. He carefully weaves characters and details, slowly building to a surprising and very satisfying conclusion. This is a well-written, exciting story about the world of actors, agents, and directors (it's fun to try to guess which characters may have been based on real people). I happily recommend "A Stranger in the Mirror."
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Summary: Not overly impressed
Review: This was my first exposure to a Sidney Sheldon book. While I bought it for 'light reading' for a flight I was taking, I had also read some reviews calling Sheldon a "master", etc. etc. I suppose I expected more than this plain, going-nowhere story.
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Summary: Not overly impressed
Review: This was my first exposure to a Sidney Sheldon book. While I bought it for 'light reading' for a flight I was taking, I had also read some reviews calling Sheldon a "master", etc. etc. I suppose I expected more than this plain, going-nowhere story.
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Summary: Not overly impressed
Review: This was my first exposure to a Sidney Sheldon book. While I bought it for 'light reading' for a flight I was taking, I had also read some reviews calling Sheldon a "master", etc. etc. I suppose I expected more than this plain, going-nowhere story.
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Summary: No 'stranger' to excellent fiction.
Review: You've read it before - handsome rich man meets beautiful woman, they fall in love, happily ever after.
Not!
What's the message of this book? That greedy, ruthless, manipulative people sow the seeds of their own destruction? That not even love can last forever? That secrets will out, and acts of betrayal have shattering consequences? Read this book - not just as an antidote to Judith Krantz or Jackie Collins, nor just as a dark-side-of-Hollywood peek, but as a mesmerizing story about two people who could have had the world, but instead loved and destroyed each other.
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