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Summary: well almost 5 anyway
Review: i found this book real interesting and well researched. I didn;t really enjoy putting it down either. stephen fried went through many interviews for this book and it was well worth it. Gia had a tragic life, I originally picked up this due to a school project but this book was really great and you should pick it up no matter what your story. you'll gain something from it. (it is one of those books where you go back and forth from the pages and the pics and the middle to see what she was going through at the time) a lot of models hated this book.. they did not think that he should have written a book about someone who simply walked in and then out of the modeling industry. im afraid my review hasn't done the book justice.
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Summary: Fascinating but sidetracks too much!
Review: I knew nothing about Gia, so it was fascinating finding out about her, but this book spent way too much time on details that I was not at all interested in. (this hairstylist's life, that magazine's history, this photographer's divorce, that designer's vacation home, this modeling agency's whatever...and on and on and on) I skimmed through a large percentage of the pages just looking for Gia's name! I liked the varied selection of professional and non-professional pictures in the book. I liked how deeply the author went into Gia's personal life. Aside from the extraneous details, it was an excellent read.
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Summary: "The Forgotten Girl"
Review: I personally read this book on,"Super Model,"Gia Marie Carangi",and also have the Movie,"Gia",Too beautiful to die,too wild too live,if I got it close without looking. But,this book,is a excellent book,on "Gia's",life,I know a lot of people say,well she was a model,who was a junkie,but I dont agree.Gia was abused,mentally,sexually,and physically,in her early life,and having to go through what she did,with the abuse,neglect,being ignorned mostly by her own mother!!!!! I believe if Gia's family cared about what was happening,I believe she still might have made it,she tried to tell her mother,she was crying out for her mother,and family,but it was too late for Gia.See I also Model,so I know,it isnt what it seem's!!!!!! Dont be fooled,no body look's like that,not even you,from the movie,when Gia was in rehab,that is soo true!!!!!And once you are Modeling,you think Ill never do what she did,well when that time come's,girl's sadly change their mind's.Ive learned a lot from Gia's life,and I have not subcombed to taking drug's to numb my inner pain,that's my difference from Gia.A MUST READ,A VERY WELL WRITTEN BIOGRAPHY,FROM,STEPHEN M.FRIED,on the life of,"Super Model,Gia Marie Carangi".I just wished someone wouldive helped her,I think a lot of GIA,and the same or almost same life,Ive been there too!!!!!! A MUST READ,5 star's,a excellent book.Thank's,Teresa Tomsic
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Summary: "The Forgotten Girl"
Review: I personally read this book on,"Super Model,"Gia Marie Carangi",and also have the Movie,"Gia",Too beautiful to die,too wild too live,if I got it close without looking. But,this book,is a excellent book,on "Gia's",life,I know a lot of people say,well she was a model,who was a junkie,but I dont agree.Gia was abused,mentally,sexually,and physically,in her early life,and having to go through what she did,with the abuse,neglect,being ignorned mostly by her own mother!!!!! I believe if Gia's family cared about what was happening,I believe she still might have made it,she tried to tell her mother,she was crying out for her mother,and family,but it was too late for Gia.See I also Model,so I know,it isnt what it seem's!!!!!! Dont be fooled,no body look's like that,not even you,from the movie,when Gia was in rehab,that is soo true!!!!!And once you are Modeling,you think Ill never do what she did,well when that time come's,girl's sadly change their mind's.Ive learned a lot from Gia's life,and I have not subcombed to taking drug's to numb my inner pain,that's my difference from Gia.A MUST READ,A VERY WELL WRITTEN BIOGRAPHY,FROM,STEPHEN M.FRIED,on the life of,"Super Model,Gia Marie Carangi".I just wished someone wouldive helped her,I think a lot of GIA,and the same or almost same life,Ive been there too!!!!!! A MUST READ,5 star's,a excellent book.Thank's,Teresa Tomsic
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Summary: the full show
Review: I picked up this book by accident, and read it cover to cover. It reminded me of No One Here Gets out alive...but better. Even if you have no interest in fashion, Fried does a good job outlining the counter-culture in late 70's New York...definatley check it out...even if you think of yourself as one of those David Foster-Wallace post apres-quasi-pseudo modern types.
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Summary: This Book Should Be a Mystery
Review: I read, loved, and hated, this book. It was very painful for me to read. I initally purchased it because I have family members who have ties to heroin and so I wanted an inside peek into this secretive world. Well, this book gave me that peek, however, it still didn't supply my need to understand "why". Gia's life seemed very typical to me; it was riddled with painful life altering traumas, the kind we all experience. Dysfunction, divorce, adolescent anxst. The differece with Gia, however, was that she became a supermodel. Is this what made her a heroin addict? I really don't know, but I really don't think so. This book does not answer that question. That in itself was frustrating. WHY? It was frustrating to see her completely destruct. I am not sure that the author had a complete idea of Gia's family life as he wrote about them as if they were complacent sideliners one minute and the next minute it was if they were loving, supportive caregivers. Perhaps they were both. I guess that is what it is like trying to live with drug addicted family members. In summary, this book is more about drug addiction and the sadness it cultivates than any 'glamour' related story of a model gone bad. Be prepared to feel sad, and numb, when you finish this book.
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Summary: WICKED BOOK
Review: I really enjoyed this book. It was really good. I enjoyed the movie as well. Although the movie was almost nothing like the book it was still good. They made a good choice picking Angelina Jolie to play Gia.
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Summary: Great read
Review: I thought this book was a great read, unfortunatlly Gia is no longer with us.
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Summary: Good Look at the 70's & 80's NY Cultures
Review: It is about Gia but all the supporting characters make this extremely interesting. A very sad but detailed account of what drugs can do to people's lives when they are on top. Reading this will have more impact than "Just Say No" ever did.
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Summary: A Genuine Effort
Review: My mother grew up in South New Jersey and knew Gia. She went to Philadelphia alot as a teen and young adult, and frequented the Hoagie shop where Gia occasioanlly worked and that her father owned. They were not the "best" of friends. But this book certainly let her in on what she did not know about Gia, and what she couldn't tell me. She read it first, then I did. Some of the items in the book she was aware of, such as the personality of Gia and the luck of Gia hitting the fashion world. What it did not say was that those who casually knew "of" Gia, like my mom and her friends, were very excited and proud of her at that time for she did something many dreamed about. Consequently, as the 80's went on and eveyone moved on, Gia's pictures were everywhere then all of a sudden...nothing. This book tells why. My mom didn't find out about Gia's death until well after, and it was shocking. We watched the HBO film as well and although that too left out much, it did serve in telling how fast you can get something and how fast it can go away as well. Maybe people wanted more insight into Gia, and less about the fashion industry and her homosexuality but all these parts made Gia a whole, and this book is just another part, another view...a darned good one. My mother's experiences with Gia was totally different, and of course she has another view of her and her family. But that is what Journalism is all about, someone laying out the facts for you to draw your own conclusions. I feel that with all I know and with this book, it is one of the best eforts to give insight of Gia all around. The other way to know, we all never will because Gia was different things to different people. She was hard to peg. All this book does is give you insight to those around her, around her career and circumstances leading to her disease and death. A must read I think for every teenage girl who thinks modeling is just stardom, money, magazine covers, tv/film breaks and a chance to get Rock Star boyfriends (or girlfriends.)
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