Daniel Radcliffe (Blue Banner Biographies) Review

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(More customer reviews)I bought this book thinking something that when I got it the book wasn't what I thought and I sent it back. It is not an official Biography about his life from birth to now. It had nothing that I didn't know already. One picture of a man and woman was presented as his parents. They are not his parents. The woman is his publisist not his mum.

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All Harry Potter knew was a miserable life with theDursleys, his horrible aunt and uncle, and their hateful son,Dudley. His room was a tiny closet at the foot of the stairs. Hehadn't had a birthday party in eleven years. All that changed inHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.Daniel Radcliffe, on the other hand, the young actor who was chosen toplay Harry Potter, led a comfortable life in London, England. Hisbiggest obstacle was convincing his parents that he was up to thechallenge of playing the role of Harry Potter. Here is the story ofthe young teen and his role of a lifetime.

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The Robert Pattinson Album Review

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(More customer reviews)I pre-ordered this book a while ago and was told by a friend that it probably wouldnt be that good. But I decided to take a chance! And was I ever surprised!
The book is beautifully put together with nice big pictures, quotations and stories about him (growing up, modeling & acting). Something else I really liked about it is that it has (almost) every magazine cover/article pictures on a few pages which is nice because I dont own all the magazines. Its also not full of Twilight but has a few chapters about it and has some really beautiful pictures from the movie.
I will be telling all my friends to order this book its definatly worth the price :)

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Beautifully illustrated with 75 photographs in full color, The Robert Pattinson Album by Paul Stenning is a breathtaking visual biography of one of the world's most talked-about young actors. The hugely successful vampire romance Twilight was a box-office phenomenon, and Robert is that smash-hit film's breakout star. In the space of a few short years, the twenty-two-year-old Londoner has gone from amateur stage performer to full-blown Hollywood idol, and his staggering ascent is already the stuff of legend. The public first took notice when Robert appeared in Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire but the role that would change his life forever was that of charismatic teenage vampire Edward Cullen in Twilight, the film adapted from author Stephenie Meyer's best-selling book series.Twilight's success has made Pattinson an icon to millions, swelling his obsessive fan base to overwhelming global proportions. Illustrated with a wealth of photographs; candid shots, film stills, and rarities, this book explores Robert's childhood in Barnes, his first forays into theatre, and his early television roles. It details his thoughts on the making of Twilight, his passion for art and music, his feelings about sudden fame, and his plans for the future.

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J.K. Rowling A Biography Review

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(More customer reviews)I've read all the HP books and am a big fan so I was pleased to find a good biography of JK Rowling as Marc Shapiro's from last year was too thin and not very enlightening. This one is much more interesting and follows JK's life through from when she was little girl all through her education and the subsequent creation of Harry Potter on a train up to the present day. It's a pleasure to read a good rags to riches story - and in case you've read all those articles about her writing in cafes you can find out here that there is a lot more to JK Rowling than that! I recommend this book if you're a Harry Potter fan, especially if you like the game of spotting where all the inventive names in the books come from - you might not agree with Sean Smith but it's fun to play!

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Biography: Harry Potter Kids (2009) Review

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(More customer reviews)I was really looking forward to seeing this DVD and watched it the day I got it. However, I was disappointed in how the show was put together. I expected a Biography show to be excellent. I would say the different speakers (I do not know any of them) who were an author, a film critic (I think), etc. were very well spoken and had a lot of interesting things to say - very professional. BUT...to show the same exact photos over and over and over and over (sometimes cropped to show just one or two people) -- like some cheap reality show showing the same accident over an over again - not very good.
This was called "Harry Potter Kids" (plural) but mostly talked about Daniel Radcliffe. The DVD had about 31 min. about the popularity of Harry Potter books, J. K. Rowling (not so much), some about the director Chris Columbus, but MOSTLY about Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter) and less than 13 minutes was devoted to Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley) and Emma Watson (Herminone Grainger) - what experience they did not have before Harry Potter, how they Emma wasn't really cute or anything but that Emma was such a "good girl" - none of the "kids" had gone bad and that Daniel had done a well known play (Equus) where he appears nude and is in a love making scene - he can act in other areas besides Harry Potter -- so he was happy.
The case for the DVD says the run time is "approximately 50 minutes" but it is actually only 44 minutes. I guess I should have known better since it was a TV broadcast with commercials from 2008 so it could not be 50 minutes. There were no extras - just chapters you could choose.
I would recommend the recent ABC broadcast show, "J.K. Rowling, A Year in the Life Of" that was broadcast July 16, 2009. Now THAT was interesting! AND I found out that it included in the newest 2 disc regular DVD set, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Two-Disc Limited Special Edition) and the Blu-Ray (2 disc) version Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (+ BD-Live) [Blu-ray]

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