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have you ever bought/read a sleb autobiography?

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umbungo · 15/10/2008 14:17

was it any good? was it very bad?
interesting read, or waste of time?

loads seem to plugging books for Christmas this year. Just wondering if there is actually worth reading in them.

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Suedonim · 19/10/2008 01:29

I thought Russell Brand's book was good, much better than I expected. I now think he's rather sweet.

Frank Skinner's was good, too. I can't think I've read any other sleb bio's, I tend towards historical/political. Oh, Dirk Bogarde, but he was a proper film star not a sleb.

Cammelia · 19/10/2008 19:52

Wasn't he though suedonim

I've never read a sleb bio or autobio, not my thing.

I have read Martin Amis's autobio as well as DB's.

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deste · 19/10/2008 20:57

Mark Firth ex editor of Heat magazine. Very funny and opens your eyes to a lot of celebs.

Suedonim · 20/10/2008 10:16

Cam, yes, he was a star in the days of glamour and elegance.

MingMingtheWonderPet · 20/10/2008 10:18

Peter Kay's is funny

Ricky Tomlinson's is also very good (the Dad is the Royal Family)

Also liked Martin Kemp's

TskullsScreaming · 20/10/2008 10:25

Apparantly there is one just out by Roger Moore which is supposed to be very good.

Read Russell Brand's which was ok.

The definitive celeb biography for me has to be The Moon's A Balloon by David Niven. It's so funny and very well written.

princessmel · 20/10/2008 10:27

Yep,
I've read Russel Brands My Booky Wook - liked it.

Most of Jordan's, Sharon Osbourne's, Gary Barlow and Daniella Westbrook's. I have borrowed all apart from Russels from a friend.

Trashy but enjoyable.

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