About this title: sTori Telling is a chance for Tori to set the record straight on her personal life and to let readers experience the truly unique life she's led - with its undeniable childhood privileges, tabloid misperceptions, career successes, and personal regrets. This is Tori's opportunity to define herself on her own terms. Whereas her VH1 show So Notorious was brilliant, self-effacing satire, her memoir will directly showcase the tabloid lies and scrutiny, her family and childhood (including a tour through the infamous Spelling mansion), her marriages, her scandalous divorce, her experiences as a new ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: SIMON & SCHUSTER Country = UNITED STATES
Date published: 2009
ISBN-13:9781416587002ISBN:1416587004
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 320 pages. Now in paperback, the sharp and sassy tell-all memoir from beverly hills, 90210's star and reality show celebrity tori spelling-that ever bit enthralling as one of her fathers aaron's popular series. (Paperback) read more
Edition: Abridged.
Binding: Audio CD
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Date published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780743582391ISBN:074358239X
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon Spotlight
Date published: 2008
ISBN-13:9781416950738ISBN:1416950737
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon Spotlight
Date published: 2008
ISBN-13:9781416950738ISBN:1416950737
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon Spotlight
Date published: 2008
ISBN-13:9781416950738ISBN:1416950737
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon Spotlight
Date published: 2008
ISBN-13:9781416950738ISBN:1416950737
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Publisher: Simon Spotlight Entertainment
Date published: 2008
ISBN-13:9781416950738ISBN:1416950737
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Publisher: Simon Spotlight Entertainment
Date published: 2008
ISBN-13:9781416950738ISBN:1416950737
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Simon Spotlight Entertainment
Date published: 2009
ISBN-13:9781416587002ISBN:1416587004
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon Spotlight
Date published: 2008
ISBN-13:9781416950738ISBN:1416950737
Description: Good. Dust Cover Missing. Book shows minor use. Cover and Binding have minimal wear and the pages have only minimal creases. A tradition of southern quality and service. All books guaranteed at the Atlanta Book Company. read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Simon Spotlight Entertainment, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date published: 2009
ISBN-13:9781416587002ISBN:1416587004
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon Spotlight
Date published: 2008-03-11
ISBN-13:9781416950738ISBN:1416950737
Description: Very Good. Text is clean, bright and unmarked. Binding is tight and square. DJ is VG. Careful packaging and fast shipping. We recommend EXPEDITED MAIL for even faster delivery! read more
"What better way to follow up a book about a girl living in poverty in the United States than by reading a book about one of the richest girls in the United States? =) One of the skills of a good writer is that he/she can make a piece on something as mediocre as bananas seem interesting. Tori Spelling does not have that skill. But additionally, her life is not quite as eventful or extraordinary as one might think and her memoir feels much like reading a 17-year-old's diary (plain sentences and simple sentence structure, with bad overall organization and limited analysis). The most exciting scene for me was when her pet parrot attacked her, sending her and her friend running down a hallway and then hiding in the bathroom for 45 minutes while the bird repeatedly charged at the door or something. Haha, now that's funny.
It also bothered me when she justified cheating on her husband by the fact that she fell in love with Dean at first sight and her marriage was going down the drain anyway. I understand how it must suck to not love the person your married to, but at the same time, being unfaithful is a lapse in self-control and self-respect that I just cannot forgive. After all, she had the affair after only knowing Dean for one day!
So in short, this is not something worth reading. Tori Spelling may be a nice person and everything, but I doubt that this book would have any success whatsoever if it were not for her semi-stardom."
"As a TV show runs into multiple seasons, careful viewers often catch trivial contradictions. Some backstory from Season One disappears or reverses altogether, or two characters who hated each other at the end of last season are suddenly childhood friends reunited (ahem, The L Word). Television viewers excuse these continuity issues as inherent to the form. In movies and books, however, the beginning of a story can be tweaked to match the ending before anyone has to see it. Therefore, it's disappointing to find these "Season One" contradictions throughout sTORI Telling, the recent memoir by actress and celebrity Tori Spelling. Often I would read a sentence, and then find the opposite sentiment a few chapters later.
In sTORI Telling, Spelling describes her complicated relationships with work, fame, money, and family. But rather than a thorough retrospective or revealing memoir, sTORI Telling is snapshot of how a young celebrity interprets her past from the modest vantage of her mid-thirties. The contradictions reveal as much as they obscure about Spelling's life and how she views it. In this way, sTORI Telling is more like a revealing self-portrait than an incisive memoir.
The most startling contradictions come in the most ambitious and interesting part of the book, where Spelling explains her complicated relationship with wealth. With a legacy of stunted earning power, and constant encouragement to rely on someone else, women's financial biographies are often tortured and difficult. Spelling is brave to take it on at all.
After she was cut off from her family's wealth, Spelling had to square the lifestyle she was accustomed to with the reality of her finances. It did not go well, and Spelling quickly fell into debt. Trying to explain that she hadn't been living on family money as a young adult, Spelling writes, "I'd been living independently since I moved out of the Manor, except that I paid rent to my mother for the ten years before she evicted me." Later she fumes, "I'd been working hard to support myself since I was sixteen." While earlier on she had corrected a popular misconception by stating that she didn't even move into the Manor, the famous Spelling mansion, until she was 17. Then she writes, "Look, I'm not complaining; I'm just trying to explain what it feels like to think about money for the first time in your thirties."
Spelling's fans will find plenty of interesting stories in the pages of sTORI Telling, some very familiar to devotees of So NoTORIous, her autobiographical sitcom that lasted one (glorious) season on VH1. Readers who are ambivalent about Spelling may come to this book out of guilty pleasure, but they too will leave happy, fully briefed on the details of her first wedding, divorce, new relationship and new family. Media criticism enthusiasts will enjoy reflecting on how far the teen market has come since Beverly Hills 90210 broke the mold to become the first hour-long, primetime, network drama with a teenaged cast. That said, sTORI Telling probably won't make many converts.
Whatever she was going for, Spelling's screw ups and work-in-progress reflections paint a more honest portrait of American women of her generation than the jacket copy gives her credit for.
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