Rating: 
Summary: Pure sensationalist drek
Review: The only reason this book gets one star is because Amazon does not allow a reviewer to select ZERO stars. If you're into tabloid style hatchet jobs, knock yourself out. If you'ra a Seinfeld fan looking to learn more about the man's life, run, full speed, in the opposite direction from this book and don't look back.
Rating:
Summary: Pure sensationalist drek
Review: The only reason this book gets one star is because Amazon does not allow a reviewer to select ZERO stars. If you're into tabloid style hatchet jobs, knock yourself out. If you'ra a Seinfeld fan looking to learn more about the man's life, run, full speed, in the opposite direction from this book and don't look back.
Rating: 
Summary: Interesting angle on Jerry's life
Review: This book contains a section of pictures, and I believe that section is what is most interesting about this book. The pictures include: Jerry with his father, Jerry as a very young boy (around 6) in a grade school class photo, and then throughout his life, including the 1970s with the inevitable long hair of the disco era. There are also a few pictures of Jerry with longtime friend, actor/commedian George Wallace. There are also a few pictures of the "real" Costanza. And, of course, the beautiful women Jerry has dated...What I found most interesting about the text of this book was its description of Jerry Seinfeld's spirituality. I had always thought there was something spiritual about Jerry's take on life. I had always suspected that of him. This book talks about his vegetarianism, yoga practice, his study of meditation techniques (including those of the Maharishi) with the intention of improving concentration in performances, and it mentions that, though Jerry has down-played his association over the years, there was a time in his life when he was quite involved with Scientology. Unfortunately, this book also contains all the usual markings of unauthorized biographies: namely, an over-dependence on interviews gleaned from periodical interviews (i.e., interviews not conducted by the author of this book), no one in the subject's current "inner circle" had anything to do with this book, and the author of this book is sometimes a bit "rambly" in his sentences and tries to make a big deal out of obvious "non-issues." Okay, I liked it . . . because I like Jerry Seinfeld. If you like Jerry, you will probably find at least a few things interesting about this book.
Rating: 
Summary: It's All In There
Review: This book had good, reliable sources, and Oppenheimer really did his homework in finding out about Mr. Seinfeld. If you need some info about Jerry, you'll find it here if you find it anywhere...Especially since this book is written from the interesting slant of somebody who may not be so fond of Seinfeld... The only reason this book really gets a passing grade from me is that it's about Seinfeld's life...Seinfeld is a really interesting and quirky guy, so unless you try pretty hard to mess up whatever your writing about him, you'll end up with something interesting. I don't really like Oppenheimer's style--was this book rushed into stores, or what? I counted about 15 typos, and some paragraphs were pointless and fluffy, while others condensed too much into such a small space.
Rating:
Summary: It's All In There
Review: This book had good, reliable sources, and Oppenheimer really did his homework in finding out about Mr. Seinfeld. If you need some info about Jerry, you'll find it here if you find it anywhere...Especially since this book is written from the interesting slant of somebody who may not be so fond of Seinfeld... The only reason this book really gets a passing grade from me is that it's about Seinfeld's life...Seinfeld is a really interesting and quirky guy, so unless you try pretty hard to mess up whatever your writing about him, you'll end up with something interesting. I don't really like Oppenheimer's style--was this book rushed into stores, or what? I counted about 15 typos, and some paragraphs were pointless and fluffy, while others condensed too much into such a small space.
Rating:
Summary: Boring
Review: What a boring read. For a story about a man who made his name largely from the show Seinfeld there were only 82 pages(out of 362)and 8 chapters(out of 41)related to the show. The rest was a boring soap opera about his relationships and lack of commitment in those relationships. All the information was gathered through anecdotes, largely from people Jerry had crossed in some way so they were generally not complimentary. I found the last few chapters particularly tedious telling the stories of the leaked Vanity Fair article and the "theft" of his future wife. I realise a biography needs to tell about the person outside of what has made them famous but this was over the top in that area and gave me almost no behind the scenes information about the show that most of the world loved.
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Summary: gritty road to riches
Review: What's up with this Mr. Oppenheimer,anyway. He frequently makes the point that Jerry Seinfeld achieved extraordinary success with a clean act, unlike other comedians of the time. He didn't use profanity in his comedy routines and I think that was a huge part of what made Jerry Seinfeld so great. (Not that he's not great still!)
This Mr. Oppenheimer, on the other hand, seems to think that the shock value of throwing in one disgusting word after another is worth the price of degrading his own name as an author.
I'm glad I didn't buy this book. The library shouldn't have either.
Rating:
Summary: If you like Jerry Seinfeld, you'll probably hate this book..
Review: What's up with this Mr. Oppenheimer,anyway. He frequently makes the point that Jerry Seinfeld achieved extraordinary success with a clean act, unlike other comedians of the time. He didn't use profanity in his comedy routines and I think that was a huge part of what made Jerry Seinfeld so great. (Not that he's not great still!)
This Mr. Oppenheimer, on the other hand, seems to think that the shock value of throwing in one disgusting word after another is worth the price of degrading his own name as an author.
I'm glad I didn't buy this book. The library shouldn't have either.
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