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 enlarge | Author: Tori Spelling
Publisher: Simon Spotlight
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  331 reviews
Sales Rank: 1544
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Simon Spotlight Entertainment Hardcover Ed
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.4 x 1.2
ISBN: 1416950737
Dewey Decimal Number: 791.45028092
EAN: 9781416950738
ASIN: 1416950737
Publication Date: March 11, 2008
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 a terrific read! March 2, 2008
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
roxie paws' review really sums up how i feel about the book. very worthwhile to read..not a tell all re. movie stars etc. more of a memoir. a very personal account of tori's life with her brand of humor infused. i am really glad i read this as i have a whole new appreciation of the girl behind the rich headlines!
Loved loved the Book!! March 5, 2008
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
I couldnt put the book down, I read it all in 2 days! I could relate to Tori's relationship with her Mom. Just goes to show you that having lots of money, money doen't buy happiness or love.
 Surprisingly good - refreshingly glib March 19, 2008
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
Before this book, I didn't think much about Spelling, good or bad. She was just some vapid actress. Boy, has my opinion of her changed! As soon as I read the line "I guess guys who like football like to watch cheerleaders die" in response to her TV movie doing so well, I knew I'd like her.
She has a genuine sense of humor, and an outlook on life that would make anyone want to hang around her. Her cynicism is so refreshing!! She'll never get the respect she's earned, but she's definitely earned mine. She can stand on her own two feet (albeit wearing Jimmy Choo shoes), and she may have finally got it right!!
Hilarious and Self-Deprecating March 24, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I read this book in two days! Tori Spelling seems like the girl next door you could be best friends with! She reveals interesting details throughout.
Especially riveting is the vacant relationship she has with her emotionally remote mother. Candy Spelling has around $500 million (apparently), but she can't bring herself to have any kind of meaningful and solid relationship with her daughter. Instead she appears to like to control every aspect of her daughter's life in the only way she can - with money. She seems to have a "I'll buy you what I like, but if you don't like it you can pay for it yourself and don't expect any more help from me - ever." kind of attitude. Case in point Tori's first wedding. After reading about it, it seems that this was Candy's dream wedding - not Tori's! No wonder Tori and Dean flew off to the other side of the planet (sans Mom)to get married!
Another intersting aspect of the Spellings is that they never seemed to teach Tori any kind of normal life skills - especially how to manage money responsibly. In many ways you can see how Tori was ultimately set up for financial failure by her own parents.
The only reason why I didn't give the book 5 stars was because I felt that she skimmed over the ending - from the time she and Dean moved into the B&B. Instead she devotes pages to 'So NoTORIous'. She barely covers the B&B period in her life (which I would have liked to have read more about - there must be many funny stories that never made it onto TV). It seems as if she was in a hurry to finish the book, going on instead about how her life today is her 'normal'.
Good luck to you Tori (and Dean, Liam and 'Little Tori') and thank you for this very entertaining read!
 Bestseller maybe....image improver - definitely NOT! August 4, 2008
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
I'll admit to being interested in this Stori due in part to Tori's current reality show which had previously changed my perception of her. On the show she comes off as surprisingly down-to-earth, loving, very funny and yes, victimized by poor parenting. The book shed new light on everything. I now find her to be much less likeable. I'll never watch the show again. Seriously. It is interesting to find out "how the other half" lives and the book's chatty format makes it a quick read. She is also very candid in what she decides to admit. She does have a very big axe to grind with her mother and probably for some very good reasons. However, there are two sides to every story and at least two sides to Tori. Her memory is very convenient. When she cheats it's because she was young, immature, bored, or has found "her soulmate". When she's cheated on, she's an innocent victim for whom a group of friends must hold an intervention. Really???
She's still so keen on playing the victim role that she can't see past a need for revenge, i.e. listing her mom third in the thank-you credits. Like bashing her throughout the book wasn't bad enough. Nanny comes 2nd. How sad....Nanny got paid to love her. I also don't get where she's coming from re: the inheritance. It usually ALL goes to the spouse and not passed on to the children until both parents are gone. What makes her feel so entitled to what is truly her mother's money at this point? She's lucky she got what she did when she did and if she couldn't make those dollars suffice so that she could be a "stay-at-home mom" she needs to complain to HER spouse and his income power about that. Or change her lifestyle, Godforbid. I do hope Tori learns a few things so that in 30 years her kids won't be writing books about her. Or maybe they won't need the money.
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