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Seeing Stars (2010)

by Diane Hammond(Favorite Author)

3.19 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0061863157 (ISBN13: 9780061863158)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

William Morrow Paperbacks

review 1: This book was a very raw and real take on the business of Hollywood. It focused mainly on the pains and un-glamourous side of digging around and putting yourself off the cliff all for that one chance at work. The author bounced around between different characters and story lines, most of which did not connect with each other at all. Think the author would have written a stronger novel if she just stuck with one story line. In particular, Bethany, Ruth, and Allison's story line.
review 2: I was actually given this book by Diane Hammond after I opened one of her book signings with a quick scene from Macbeth to set the mood for her presentation. The topic is very contemporary and interesting - I probably would have bought it regardless - and I began reading right... more away. This book holds trade secrets and things you wouldn't believe about the Hollywood life so many crave. The story is so tangible and easy to relate to you feel the anxiety of a supportive mother as if it were your own. Very easy to read, very enlightening and totally enjoyable. I finished it in a few days and promptly recommended it to many of my friends, lending my own copy to my father who read it and was also shocked at how much he liked it. Coming from Hammond's own experiences as the mother of a would-be child star, this book is very much a relation of what happened when her own family took of to LA out of Seattle to try the business of acting. A wonderful author and an intriguing tale. less

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