A Stranger in the Mirror

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Summary: excellent read...gripping story
Review: Absolutly brilliant! Mr. Sheldon at his best. This is right up there with my other classic favourite Master of the game. Great beginning with the troubles of Toby Temple, his rise to fame, his lonliness all depicted with sheer class. Not to mention Jill Castle. Amazing ending. Un-putdownable..

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Summary: how ruthless inside HollyWood
Review: I don't read books very much but I have one favorite writer.His name is Sidney Sheldon.I like his world. His book develops story very quickly so I'm always surprised the development and enjoy how it develops.All of his books are interesting very much and this time, I recommend one of them tytled "A Stranger in the Mirror".This story is written about inside HollyWood. We are all longing to stand the wonderful stage of HoolyWood among the beautiful lights and many audiences. But, it is a steep way to realize our dream. This story tells us that how mean and ruthless inside the beautiful HollyWood through the life of a young comedian and a young actress who dreamed to succeed in HollyWood. At first, they were full of hope but then they realized what a ruthless way we had to go to stand the HollyWood stage. To the goal, they did anything, sometime they betray their friends and lovers, sometime the use their sex. But the things they got in consequence of those ruthless behavior is neither eternal success nor happy life but only destruction of themselves. Through this story, we can get how man is stupid. Anyway, please read once.

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Summary: A Stranger In the Mirror Review
Review: I remember one of the things Sidney Sheldon said, which was that, none of his characters are always all good nor are they always all bad. That is what makes his books so great, because he makes his characters "real," not out of fairy tales where things always end happily ever after. Everyone has an innocent side and everyone has an evil side.. he portrays them very well in his characters of this book. It is another must-read from Sheldon!

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Summary: The last experience
Review: I think this will be my last book of Sidney Sheldon, may be the book is good, but all of his books have the same style: the first part of the story you can't put the book down, in the middle he writes pages and pages of stories that doesn't have to do anything with the main story, and at the end he repeats two or three times everything to get to the end, when you are about 3/4 of the book you just don't know if you want to finish or just skip all the pages to the end of the book.
The story of the book is a well known story of Hollywood, if you are a woman and you want to have success there you have to have sex with the directors, if you are a man you have to deceive the director to have their attention.

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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: 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.