True Hollywood Lies

by Josie Brown

Book Overview

A TRUE HOLLYWOOD LIES NOVEL:For Hannah Fairchild, jaded Hollywood trust fund baby and aspiring astronomer, life as she knows it (financially secure, albeit emotionally frail) goes out of orbit when... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060815876
• ISBN13: 9780060815875
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Avon Books
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Do yourself a favour and read this book!!!!

If you love Hollywood and everything about it this is the book for you. It looks at what goes on behind the scenes as well as what goes on in front. The writing is snappy and the storyling the same. If you want to grab a book and spend 24 hours with it (because when you pick it up you can not put it down) then this is the book for you. So do yourself a favour and read it.

Loved it! Great Hollywood Farce.

Loved it, loved it, loved it. I picked up TRUE HOLLYWOOD LIES because I overheard a person who works at my local bookstore raving about it. She said that everyone she's ever recommended it to also loved it. I thought that, at the very least, it would be a fun read. And having once lived in LaLa Land, I might find some fun in reliving all the things I liked and disliked about it... I'm happy to report that the bookseller was right. I could easily relate to the way the heroine, Hannah, had this love/hate relationship with Hollywood (having one myself). Also, she's got the personalities down pat. I could actually imagine that some of those lines as said. The author's bio says that she has interviewed stars and knows the patter, as well as what comes out of the mouths of their handlers. Also, all the hot spots mentioned in the book are those that the stars really do hit. So for me, it was a great read, almost like visiting again.... As for the plot, Hannah is wonderfully vulnerable, not at all a clueless shoes-and-shopping type, but smart and savvy and filled with some honest pain (it's explained in the book). You can see how she is easily in love with both the men in her life, who are different types but both lovable in their own way. In fact, is surpirsed me to read one of the reviews below which indicate that the ending was "predictable", but I have to say that I disagree. The plot had me wondering until almost the last few pages what choice Hannah would make. I guess that other reviewer is smarter than the average bear (or reader, in this case). Then again, as with most fun books about women, you know that the heroine will do okay...but I felt that "True Hollywood Lies" was the kind of book you don't ever want to end, which is probably why the other reviewer felt that way.

Impossible to put down!

Once I picked up True Hollywood Lies, I couldn't put it down. I stayed up until 3am reading and it was worth every bleary eyed minute at work the next day! The characters jump out at you and sometimes you just want to scream at them to stop them from making all the ridiculous mistakes that people make in the name of love (lust).

TRUE HOLLYWOOD LIES HAD ME BEGGING FOR MORE

I've just finished reading TRUE HOLLYWOOD LIES, and loved every minute. In fact, I couldn't put it down. (My husband didn't appreciate that, particularly at 2:30 in the morning!) Josie Brown gives the reader a front row seat in the lives of celebrities. What I enjoyed most was how she managed to make Louis Trollope, the movie star anti-hero of the book, so arrogant, vulnerable, paranoid and embracing all at once. The twists and turns in the plot kept me wondering until the very end whether he and the book's heroine, Hannah, would end up together. What a great take on stardom, and its affects on relationships and love!

unfortunately true

When you read "True Hollywood Lies" you want to shake the characters for what they put themselves through for success in Hollywood. It seemed unreal until I read the article about Scott Rudin in the weekend edition of the Wall Street Jorunal. Real people are willing to debase themselves in acceding to the wishes of self centered sometimes talented people. I got ahold of this book on a Friday and finished it by Saturday. Like a car wreck, I could not look away until it was over. Lots of good sex and sunlit scenes with things working out in a plausable and satisfying way. I can't wait to see the movie.