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There Was A Little Girl Signed Copy (2014)

by Brooke Shields(Favorite Author)

3.48 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0525428860 (ISBN13: 9780525428862)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Dutton Adult

review 1: Basically there is only one sentence in this book: Brooke Shields' mother was an abusive alcoholic.Turn the page and repeat that sentence 416 times. I should stop reading biographies (unless it's about Adolf Hitler) because I always like people less after reading them. There were a few interesting sentences that I had to read out loud to the nearest innocent victim. At one point Brooke Shields absolutely insists that no one, not the writers, the producers, her mother or anyone else ever suspected that nothing getting between her and her Calvin Klein jeans was a double entendre. It was all in the dirty filthy minds of the viewing audience. Brooke also states that she was an absolutely normal teenager (OK ...) but one page later says that, when she was about 13, Studio 54... more was one of her favorite hangouts because they had such a good VIP area (which I'm sure you are all familiar with, since we all hung out there when we were teenagers, no?)Brooke later explains that she chose to attend Princeton because the library had more realistic gargoyles than Vassar and more ivy on the buildings. Why didn't I give it one star? I am trying to save one-star reviews for kindling books.
review 2: I read the entire thing wanting to feel in the end like there was just a huge mistake by the media -- that Brooke Shields did have a mother who loved her and cared for her, nurtured and protected her. I wanted for her to have been taken out of context and for this story to just set the record straight once and for all. It was not meant to be. The story itself is tragic, deeply personal and quite intriguing. The book writing, however, is quite flawed. A couple of solid rewrites could have made this one to read again or at least recommend, but as it is, it seems like a rough draft or flow of consciousness that at least has chronology to keep it somewhat in order. Nevertheless, Brooke should be commended for baring so much of herself, yet again. And I have a feeling that even if she did read negative reviews, she'd respond as her mother would: "F*** em if they can't handle it!" less

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