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Confessions of an Heiress

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I'm not a certified book critic, but I would never encourage anyone to waste $22.00 of their hard-earned money on this pile. Paris probably hired some underling ghost-writer to jot down her "ideas" and "thoughts" and paste them together in a hardcover. She was trying to get the readers to see her as someone that she's obviously not (respectful, humble, intelligent, real), and contradicts each statement with her "tips" and "how-to's" (behave like an utter snob, act ridiculously arrogant and you'll gain the admiration you've so longed for from society). She also uses an entire chapter to name-drop her celebrity friends' list.
She's glamorous, stylish and has the cash to get her by, but otherwise, there is nothing to the book but and endless abyss of shallow thinking.

This book was a complete disappointment. I was expecting "confessions" and there was not a single mention of the sex-tape scandal. This book was written on a 2nd grade level and took about 30 minutes to read. In the book, Paris constantly talks about "being yourself", "don't listen to anyone's advice" but the entire book is a step by step on how to be Paris Hilton. She tells you what you should do and exactly how you should do it, only because she does it that way. The most insulting line of the book is when she says "Only have billionaire friends" How shallow can a person be!? I guess if you were 9 years old and had millions of dollars at your disposal and wanted to be a Paris Hilton clone, then you might find this book useful. If not, don't waste your time.

Don't buy this book.
If you do, you are just feeding into her wallet and her ego. Save your money for something usefull, like toilet paper.

Once upon a time, Paris was a cute brown-eyed girl with dark blonde hair. Then, she got minor rhinoplasty, bleached her hair to the point of falling out, tanned her skin until it looked plastic, purchased blue contacts, and hit the big time. Yawn.

Touting this book as "tounge-in-cheek" is supposed to give Paris a Get Out of Jail Free Card; i.e. "You can't really criticize this book, because it's meant to be funny". But, it's not funny, and can really only be touted as part of the "I'm milking my 15 minutes" parade. If you want to know all the things an heiress would or wouldn't do, Paris will give you the skinny (I must have missed the chapter on how an heiress should make at least one amateur porn video!). But this is fluff reading at best and trashy self-promotion at worst. If sister Nicky had written this, perhaps we could take it more seriously. Quotes such as "People say they envy my lifestyle, but I'm convinced that anyone with a little imagination can live 'The Life.'" Yeah, that and a Daddy who internationally owns one of the most expensive and popular hotel chains. I suppose that helps you attain 'The Life'; and you don't even have to work hard for it!

Between parading herself around as a "celebrity" (and a skanky one at that) and trying to convince America that she alone has coined the phrase "That's hot!" (as if no one else before her has said it), I just can't take this girl seriously. Bottom line: "Confessions" reads like one big Paris yearbook...except with less words. If you're really into this 'Girl of the Moment', then read this. But don't expect hilarity- it's Paris's way of saying, "Don't you wish you were me?" under the guise of humor. Ugh.

It's not even remotely interesting. It took me about 10 min. to read half of it in the book store. I didn't even want to bother reading the rest of it, much less buy it.
The other reviewer was right, It's written on a second grade level.

It is amazing to me, the amount of passion that goes into people loving or hating Paris Hilton. I never knew a whole lot about her, as I am not much interested in celebrities, but I can say I find it much easier to be turned off by her than to be mesmerized by her.

What is so great about her? Have we become such a materialistic society that we worship a girl who just happens to be born into a wealthy family? That nothing else matters except that she is rich? Just by birth?

Sure, she is pretty, but I imagine with enough money spent on fake tans and blue contacts, hair extensions and overly sexy clothes, anybody can look good. And when you have all the money you could ever want to buy those things, and all the time in the world to groom yourself (because you do not have to work) well, any of us could be glamorous, right?

So people who worship this girl do so because she is rich and glamorous. And that is about as shallow as Paris herself. This girl has had such an abnormal upbringing that she has no idea what real work is like, never thinks of others' feelings, and looks down at anyone less affluent than she (as seen by her behavior on the Simple Life shows). And this is someone whom we should all look up to?!?

The real interesting thing about Paris though, to me, is psychological. I saw her on Letterman the other night, and she appeared to be much younger than her real age. She seems very immature, probably from gliding through life without many struggles, (struggling being the kind of thing that makes you grow as a person). We all wish we could have it as easy as Paris, but do we really? The things we struggle with cause us to learn and poor, spoiled Paris has never had that.

Also, she is so self-absorbed and narcissistic that I just could not believe her! I was amazed at the things written in this book, but hearing her actually speak in that manner downright shocked me. How can anyone be that in love with themselves? This isn't self-confidence, either. I honestly believe she has Narcissistic Personality Disorder (I am not kidding) so rather than hate her, she should be pitied.

I have seen photos of her, in her partying atmosphere, wearing scanty clothing with no underwear and then bending over to give the world a peek. Who in the world, other than a professional stripper maybe, would be driven to do that? Do you need attention that badly? Correct me if I am wrong, but that is abnormal behavior.

All of you folks who have blind admiration for Paris should think hard about what a true 'hero' would be. Someone who is out to help the world be a better place, to fight corruption, crime, poverty, disease, injustice....I could go on and on. With her resources, I certainly know that I could do a LOT to help good causes and to change things for the better. But Paris does not give a second thought to anyone but herself, which, to me, is disgusting, whether she has resources or not. No matter how little you have in life, you are always able to help others. And she has been filmed calling people by racial epithets. Again, is this someone whom we should idolize? She is short on brains, definitely, but also on compassion for others.

All of the people who passionately hate this girl should just ignore her, as she gets a bigger ego with any attention she gets, good or bad.

It just scares me that someone so....useless....can be idolized so easily and so much. Do not hate her, sympathize for her instead, because she really is not a very nice person, and spend your time helping others, because she certainly won't.

She's cute, no denying it. She's rich, hubba hubba. She's self-absorbed, yuck. She's a writer? Nope.

In an effort to totally go against what the highest-rated reviewers on this site always do - write four and five-star reviews about everything they read and therefore, get glowing helpful votes - I went out and got a book that I knew deserved one star. Just so I could BASH IT!

It didn't work out that way. It's not a lousy piece though, it's just no a good one. If you've ever seen her "tv series," you know that Paris Hilton has a certain type of charm in her speech and personality. It's fun to laugh at her stupidity and cringe at her lack of respect for people less affluent than she. But she is charming and a great deal of how she writes is how she speaks. The book is as charming as she is and that's why people fall for everything she does.

it's just what you'd expect from someone like her so don't get mad when you read it and find it to be fluff, bland, put-upon, air-headed and silly. you should have known that when you bought it. with that in mind, there is no way i can pan this book. it sucks. but i expected a heck of a lot worse. because i got more than what i expected, two stars.

In case you - like me - believe in giving people the benefit of the doubt, and thus might be tempted to see if there actually is another, unseen Paris Hilton, as she purports to do in "Confessions of a Heiress," let me save you some time.

The only thing hidden behind Paris' glossy surface, is more surface.

I was, however, pleased by the neat corrollation between the uselessness of the book (too large, pink and expensive to fit on most book buyers shelves or in their budgets; not big enough to be used as a doorstop or protective weapon) and the uselessness of Paris Hilton herself (basically also too large, pink and expensive - not to mention parasitical).

In one of the many comic moments throughout, Paris notes that she thinks it is the worst sin in the world to be boring. Please note the headline of this article.

Basically, never was a girl less like her namesake. And never was a single facial expression so devoutly used in press pictures.

I find it hilarious that people writing 5 star reviews here try to convince us that this 5th grade literature they just read isn't supposed to be taken seriously. As though Paris in her "genius" wit wrote it this way on purpose. To be fair, I am convinced she tried really hard. But let's be honest with ourselves, a billionaire heiress that only needs to focus on "being more important than her clothes" need not be educated. This book is funny, and I recommend giving it a quick read. However, I find it sad that this girl is so blindly followed. She is an heiress, not a goddess.

As a professional career woman, wife, mother (and previously Paris Hilton fan), I was disappointed in this book in that it is written in a very 'child-like' fashion (or perhaps at age 30, I'm just too old for this kind of read?). Though I'm sure there are other 'early-twenties' out there, with good education and without the help of writers, that could do a much better job. Paris doesn't mention what kind of education she has and I think it shows through this book. I love fashion, I love entertainment, I love Hollywood, but I love intelligence and wit too.