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Emma: The Many Facets of Emma Thompson

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Unlike the fortunate reviewer from New Jersey, I spent a fortune on obtaining my copy of this book. I liked this book in that it filled in a lot of the blanks about her early life and career, as in Australia we really only got to know this wonderful woman when she burst forth onto our screens as the magnificent Beatrice in "Much Ado About Nothing." However, on the whole I must agree with the other reviewers. I could have paid $2.80 for the latest Woman's Day magazine and got the same amount of depth. If you can get it from the bargain bin do it! But don't be a chump like myself and pay $45 for it. I suggest all Lady Emma fans out there should band together and persuade the magnificent lady to feed our voracious appetites and pen her autobiography. Did anyone else sense a very strong anti-Ken vibe?

I have read this book and fortunately I purchased it from my local Barnes & Noble store for only $4.95 (Hardback). I found it on the "dud" shelf where it belongs! This book is a compulation of magazine articles previously published about Emma. The author even writes his references in the back of the book. If you are a true Emma fan and crave information about her then you probably have already read from other sources the information that is in this book. We'll never know the true story until Emma writes her autobiography. In the meantime, the closest we'll get to an autobiography is the Sense and Sensibility diary that Emma wrote.

For those of you who don't live on the level of Emma-fandom that I do, a newsflash. This woman will record her life story when she is good and ready. This biography is merely a patchwork of what might be true and what probably isn't. What we are ment to know of Emma Thompson, we will know the truth of, and what we aren't to know are things no person needs to know of another. If you are an Emma fan, however, you'll appreciate the nice cover shot and picture section inside. Take these, put the whole of the text aside for bathroom reading, and wait about thirty years until the real story comes out.

This is worth buying for the emma thompson fan. It gives a very good account of her family background, her early childhood, her marriage to Kenneth Branagh, and her rise to stardom. I enjoyed reading it. Kari Guy