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Summary: This book makes me laugh.
Review: This book is highly entertaining, for its goal is twofold and self-contradictory. It attempts to portray Monica Lewinsky, Clinton's White House girlfriend, as a moral, intelligent, functional youth of high potential and integrity... while at the same time making her utter naivete and gullibility a natural, acceptable, and logical component of her character.For a thinking person, this is but a stretch. Monica does have a moral backbone of sorts... she refused, for example, to blow whistles on her enemies to the media when such behavior might have been understandable, and she does endeavor repeatedly to spare her family from media pain... but at the same time her dumb choices like having illicit relationships with married men, her abortion, and her efforts to convine her first married boyfriend's other girlfriend not to reveal their affair to his wife both astonish and appall me. They undo successfully my ability to respect her as Morton seems to want the readers of this book to do. Morton explains the faults in her character as "smart woman, stupid choices." Forrest Gump had a point with "stupid is as stupid does," and Monica's decisions and expectations were regularly stupid in the extreme. The author never acknowledges that without reminding us of her (cough) innocence, her (cough cough) inherent character, or her (hacking) idealistic hopes by way of justifying or excepting her as a bad person. Also, I don't like Morton's writing style, although this book is much better than his book on the late former Princess of Wales -- practically a poster-book for circuitous writing. This one follows a fairly logical chronological order, but his phraseology is repetitive and excessive (there's a lot of "weeping, crying," a lot of "utter terror and desperation," a lot of "hysterical sobbing"). I imagine that would try the patience of more sophisticated readers who care less about Monica's affectations and more about how she can rationalize away what thinking and less emotional people would see with crystal clarity, that her situation as the President's girlfriend was tenuous at best and she couldn't believe a single word he told her. If you enjoy faintly salacious reads with unbelievable naivete, true stories, or Clinton bashing literature, this may be a great read for you... but read it for entertainment purposes only. That's really all it's worth.
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Summary: Sheds a different light on the whole scandal
Review: This is the infamous book on Monica Lewinsky, the President's mistress. While the reason that I picked up this book was because I didn't have anything else handy to read, I surprisingly found the book a fascinating read. The book does not cover the scandal as much as the people behind the scandal. The book portrays Ms. Lewinsky as a lost young woman who happened to fall in love with a married man, who happened to be the president. Ms. Lewinsky portrays President Clinton not as the womanizer Judge Starr and the media portrayed him as, but as a man, who had a poor marriage and was lonely. Judge Starr was portrayed not as the man looking for truth and justice as I though he was, but as a cold, thoughtless person only looking after his own personal, political agenda. The only downfall to the book is that everyone knows how the story ends. However, I became so engrossed in the book because it focused on the people of the scandal, not the scandal itself. It changed how I thought about the major players in the whole affair. While I found the book fascinating, the book is not for everyone. The story is yesterday's news, and many people would rather the whole thing just went away. However, if you want to see the scandal from a point of view other than the mass media's, I would highly recommend this book.
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Summary: Well Written, but The Biases Were Obvious
Review: I normally would not have picked this book up. I did and got into it. Andrew Morton wrote a very readible book. Where I take him to task is I think he ended up seeing Monica Lewinsky like one of his daughters. He has a fatherly feeling for her that denies objectivity (which is why I could not give five stars). He has definite good guys and villains. By the time he was done with Linda Tripp and the FBI agents, I thought they were going to be burned at the stake. Not saying Monica Lewinsky is a bad person, but not as innocent as Andrew Morton would leave you to believe. Remember, it takes two to tango.
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Summary: A Very Human Story, A Wonderful Book
Review: (...) I bought this book because I enjoyed Andrew Morton's book about Princess Diana. This book presents the human side, as opposed to the political side, of the story, form Monica's point of view. I think Andrew Morton was the perfect author to have taken on this book, and I would like to thank him for writing it. I can hardly wait for his next book. I was interested in knowing how Monica felt about the whole thing, and it was just what this book told me.
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Summary: Wow, I never knew how freaky Bill really is?
Review: I feel that any reader can take a lot from Andrew Morton's book about a rich girl from Beverly Hills struggle in this man's world. We are shown the inner pain Monica carries with her stemming from her summer fat camp experiences to not being invited to Tori Spelling's birthday party as a young child. We see that all she really wanted was to steal a man from another relationship and obsessively make him hers. Such innocent and simple yearnings should be applauded and not chastised as they have been too frequently. Andrew Morton paints a picture of a beautiful girl, willing to handle a medium-sized tobacco product inside of a most sacred of places, the Oval office. Surely the irony is not lost on any of us. I highly recommend reading this book, it offers immense insight into the world we saw just a glimpse of on the nightly news.
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Summary: I Thought This Was Supposed To Be A Non-fiction Work
Review: I have said before there should be a zero stars rating for books. If there was ever a work deserving of stars in negative values, it is this one. Nothing more than a work of Simi-fiction, arranged and designed to paint Monica Lewinsky in the best light possible considering the circumstances of her rise to the public stage. The writing is so bad, rife with grammatical errors and egregious inaccuracies, both in fact, description, and narrative, it does become difficult to complete this book. The basis of the work is Monica is good, just a sometimes misguided and highly intellectual young woman with a weight problem and low self-esteem. It is truly incredible how very smart she is. As is former President Clinton and Mrs. Clinton. Everyone in this book is a genius. True prodigies. Except for the villains of course. She has done little if any wrong and is just a victim of this entire debacle. Bill Clinton is good. Just a little heartless at times, but he means well and he's so smart. Did I mention how smart he is? And finally, Ken Starr, Linda Tripp and anyone who doesn't agree how smart and good those mentioned above are, is terribly bad and should be punished for their badness. Yes, it's that weak. No matter what you position is on the President's impeachment, this book is too contrived to impress or even mildly entertain. It's a defense of Monica Lewinsky and nothing less than that. An exposition of her virtues and intellect and an attack on the vast right wing conspiracy that evidently forced the President to have an affair with her. I think we need fewer sensationalist, British journalists turned biographers attempting to write on gritty, very American events. The author's total lack of knowledge and research on U.S. politics and the justice system shows on every single page. Unless you want to read an entire book, solely designed to convince you Monica is good and wise beyond her years, and a poorly written one at that, leave this one on the shelf. This isn't a biography, it's a work of fiction.
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Summary: Terrible literature. Forgetable. Ordinary soap opera.
Review: When this book was released, I though to myself that it would be an unique oportunity to know what happened beetwen now former US President Bill Clinton and White House trainee Monica Lewinsky, inside the Oval Office. Sorry, my mistake. This book is nothing else but pure sensationalist garbage. To me it's much more like a mexican soap opera full of tears and disapointments from an (supposed) innocent girl concerning to her middle-age boss, the most powerful man on the planet, THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. Keep yourself and your money away from this book, if you can. This is my sincere advice to you all. One star well deserved, considering I can not give half a star.
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Summary: Tragedy or Travesty?
Review: Some see Monica as a Victim of circumstance. Others see her as a Jezebel who did not get enough of what was coming to her. Many see her as poor slob of a woman who got herself into big trouble by not saying "No". One thing is for certain, Andrew Morton was attracted to Monica just like all the other paparazzi like moths to a flame and as sincere as he may have tried to be to bring us Monica's story I'm not sure he got it right. I had a difficult time finishing this book. Perhaps it was because I, like so many people, just want to put it all behind us and forget about it. Sadly Monica can't. This will follow her tragically the rest of her life and I'm not sure how she can overcome it. Morton does manage to show us Monica's strong character and I'm hoping this is her saving grace for the future. One thing is clear, Monica should have told us the story in her own words and by the pen of her hand. It is interesting to note that like Diana, Princess of Whales Mr. Morton seems to be drawn to women who have flirted with power and have been dragged through public scrutiny by their feet. It appears the attraction for him was the same for Monica. We can only hope that the last chapter in Monica's life is still, like this book, a very long read Away.
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Summary: Scum rises to the top.
Review: Monica Lewinsky is so self-serving. But she almost seems to believe she did nothing wrong. I mean, a girl who's slept with older married men would be labeled not innocent...but she seems innocent in the way that she's too stupid or self-absorbed to realize that maybe, just maybe, she's done something wrong. Maybe she read Helen Gurly Brown's SEX AND THE SINGLE GIRL too many times. And a lot of criticisms can be leveled at Linda Tripp. But read Christopher Hitchens' book NO ONE LEFT TO LIE TO. He was approached by a Clinton subordinate, and was told about this girl Monica Lewinsky, who was fantasizing about Clinton, and was stalking Clinton. Clinton was starting a smear campaign against Monica Lewinsky, making her out to be a delusional nut case. But then word of the stained blue dress came out. And Clinton was stuck, because there was direct DNA evidence that Lewinsky wasn't lying. So the smear campaign was stopped before it was really started. BUT LINDA TRIPP TOLD MONICA TO SAVE THE BLUE DRESS! What if Monica hadn't? Where would she be now? smeared as a liar and a nut. So Linda Tripp saved her butt, boys and girls. Yes, she taped their conversations. But it's not all black and white. And Lewinsky has the depth of a rain drop, and so isn't the sort who would think that through...as she hasn't in this book.
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Summary: Only he who is without the first sin
Review: Should cast the first stone. I can't believe how tough the media and fellow reviewers are on Monica Lewinsky. While not condoning her actions at all (in fact I strongly disapprove of extramarital relationships and the people who choose to have them) she has been punished for them far, far more than what she deserves, and people seem to forget that Bill Clinton is hardly blameless either. Hopefully being caught with his zipper down will make him change his ways! But we are all human, and we all make mistakes and do and say stupid things, only most of us are lucky enough NOT to have the world sitting in judgement upon us! What right have we to pass judgement on the actions of another? Only murderers and rapists forfeit their rights not to be judged. Let's all get on with our lives and let Monica live hers.
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