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Summary: Wow, no talent and no brains either!
Review: I'm sorry, but this is ridiculous. Can someone please tell me why so much hype concenring this "child prodigy"? Yes, at 12 years old she was good, however not as amazing as America percieved her to be. Now, years later she's gotten worse, and still everyone fusses about her! and now the next thing i see, we have to read about her life so far? please! she seems very shallow according to this book, to tell you the truth, she doesn't seem interesting enough or have enough depth to her to write a book. she just seems like a one-dimensional money-making machine that once showed potential and now is just something to make money off of. I'm sorry if this is cruel, but that's the price publishers risk when releasing nonsense like this.
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Summary: Charming book
Review: Just as most American kids have to write their "life so far" in junior high school, Charlotte Church writes about her own life, emphasing her family and friends rather than her self. With her soft Welsh accent, she reads her book self-effacingly, and we also learn how to pronounce many of those interminable Welsh words. She describes her success as happenstance and hard work of her family rather than self-made. She thanks all sorts of people for helping her career and for their kindness, and never once demeans anyone in her life.
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Summary: THIS BOOK WAS SUCH A AWERSOME READ
Review: Look at the subject first. I feel this book really showed the Charlotte Church that the fans don't know. It showed not a famous person who she was, but at the same time the person that she is really is. Its hard to explain my feelings on this book, but I know I enjoyed reading it.
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Summary: I love Charlotte Church!
Review: Now that's said, and truer words have never been spoken. But I suppose that when I say that, I mean that Charlotte Church is a wonderful, unspoiled girl. Not a writer. If you read this book expecting a writer, expect a huge disappointment. I think I wanted more poise out of this small singer than the long winded sentences and the chapters that droned on and on about trivial things that mattered not one whit to me, an avid fan. I wanted to be able to see polish in the writing, and feel that there was some purpose to this book. But unfortunatley, there wasn't. Charlotte wrote this book as if she was talking to her best girlfriend, and the editors, apparently thinking the world would be charmed by this, revised nothing. But it isn't charming, it's annoying and terrifing to read--the grammer is terrible and the sentences are choppy and the story without a plot. Don't get me wrong, I really like Charlotte, but enough is enough. Just because she's an amazing singer doesn't mean that she should write a book. Because she shouldn't. And you shouldn't buy it. If you have any need to read it, get it from the library, for pete's sake. Let's not encourage such terrible writing from the publishers, please. We have enough denigration in the writing abilities of American children as it is.
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Summary: Silly and now dated
Review: Perhaps I should have gotten this book and read it earlier, as the changes that are on the horizon for Miss Church make a lot of what is in the book appear dated, even irrelevant.The fact is that a lot of the book is not much more than adolescent chatter about her family, her friends, and her hometown, some of it is charming, but some of it is no more than filler and no help to a reader who wants insight into her or her music. In fact, she does not talk a great deal about her songs or her music except in the most cursory way, especially those on her first two albums (although admittedly the book was out before her fourth album). However, the attentive reader of this book will be less surprised at the coming changes in her music, as she all but comes right out and says she isn't into classical music and longs for a more pop direction. Also notable is the fact that Charlotte is somewhat inconsistent about things like her faith, talking in one chapter about how going to church isn't about being Catholic and how she prays in her own way, and in another about how meeting the Pope is the closest you can come to meeting God. Most notable is that she talks about having learned the lesson about watching what she says in public after joking publicly about how she wanted to to snitch a teaspoon from the White House and the media being all over her case, yet the lesson was apparently unlearned in the wake of September 11th. There is absolutely no mention of her change in management except in the most cursory terms, when in fact the change led to a lawsuit by her fired manager, Jonathan Shalit, in which Charlotte counterclaimed "inappropriate tactile conduct" (per People Magazine). The fact that the suit settled for 2 million pounds paid by Charlotte casts some doubt on those allegations. The fact is that with the coming changes, this biography is both out-of-date and incomplete, and it will be interesting if ever there is an unauthorized one.
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Summary: Charlotte Church
Review: The best way to describe Charlotte Church's Autobiography is a diary by a school-girl. There is nothing spectacular about this work and if graded by a teacher in school as a composition, in an English class, would probably get a "C". This work just seems to ramble on about anything and everything that ever came into this girls life. She talks about a lot of people including relatives and those who have been involved with her musically or in support of her music. She attempts to grab the readers interest by shamelessly exposing certain, otherwise private, moments in her parents life, and then attempting to make jest of everything. There have obviously been some negative experiences in her life like her change in management, but she just jumps over that leaving the reader wondering when her "Unauthorized Biography" will be coming out. She seems extremely confident in her discussion of just about everything; a confidence which appears to be tantamount to conceit. The major question with which I am still perplexed is why would a girl of 15 be writing an Autobiography? It is doubtful that this book will sell many copies for the simple reason that it doesn't tell anyone anything they probably 1) don't already know or 2) need to know. It will interesting to see if, in 10 years, Miss Church has improved her writing ability and is willing to share ALL of her experiences, good or bad. That is assuming that in 10 years, anyone still wants to know.
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Summary: Middle School Medioctity
Review: The best way to describe Charlotte Church's Autobiography is a diary by a school-girl. There is nothing spectacular about this work and if graded by a teacher in school as a composition, in an English class, would probably get a "C". This work just seems to ramble on about anything and everything that ever came into this girls life. She talks about a lot of people including relatives and those who have been involved with her musically or in support of her music. She attempts to grab the readers interest by shamelessly exposing certain, otherwise private, moments in her parents life, and then attempting to make jest of everything. There have obviously been some negative experiences in her life like her change in management, but she just jumps over that leaving the reader wondering when her "Unauthorized Biography" will be coming out. She seems extremely confident in her discussion of just about everything; a confidence which appears to be tantamount to conceit. The major question with which I am still perplexed is why would a girl of 15 be writing an Autobiography? It is doubtful that this book will sell many copies for the simple reason that it doesn't tell anyone anything they probably 1) don't already know or 2) need to know. It will interesting to see if, in 10 years, Miss Church has improved her writing ability and is willing to share ALL of her experiences, good or bad. That is assuming that in 10 years, anyone still wants to know.
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Summary: Incredible
Review: This book was unbelieveable. She's only 14 and she has such a great life, and wrote in great specific details. It seems like she is writing to you. You learn so much about a famous person and she tells you about her vistits to the Vatican, the White House, and describes her house and room in detail. Also, she tells you all about her friends and schools.
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Summary: Magnificent!
Review: This is a vividly written autobiography. I cannot give away much, but I surely can say that Charlotte Church is a wonderful writer, as well as a brilliant singer! Highly recommended; you will not be disappointed.
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Summary: Hmmm.... interesting...
Review: Well, I can say that this book did nothing for me. I'm sorry to be harsh, but the tone was whiney, and implied "See? I'm better than all of you but I still like sleepovers!" In short, after reading this book, I kicked over a crate of them at a [local] bookstore...
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