Customer Reviews

Mariah Carey: Her Story

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I really enjoyed reading this book. I liked the book because it's like a rags to riches story. I also enjoyed the book because Mariah Carey is my favorite singer. Not only do I enjoy her music but I love how she care for the children, and has actually taken more than a few steps to help them. I would say that I was her #1 fan. Not an obsessed fan but more like a great admirer of her art. My review is named, Butterfly, because what I got from her story is that she struggled, went through some things, as we all do in life, worked hard, set a goal for herself, was determined,did so, and became the SUPERStar she is today. She's blossomed into this beautiful woman...a butterfly.

Nickson, the author, doesn't cut to the chase right away in the biography of Mariah Carey. He starts of talking about her "Cindrella" lifestyle and then smoothly carries the reader away into statistics that bore. The facts on Ms. Carey are fairly accurate. Yet it's just not enough to interest Non-Mariah spectators.

This book was a good read, it was very interesting especially if you are a fan of Mariah's. The book is basically about her life from a kid until the middle of her carear. If you are intrested in learning about her childhood, rise to stardom and the people she works with this is the book for you. There are also some nice pictures in the middle, and a time line at the end.

This is a must-have book. It contains a great amount of important and interesting information on the #1 female vocalist of all time. I recommend this book to any Mariah Carey fan or anyone who would like to know more about Mariah before and after she achieved stardom.

Her Story is not a book a huge Mariah fan like me would like to read...maybe to add to our collections, but not to read. First off, there was no information in the book I didn't already know, and they got her birthday wrong, mispelled her name, and the punctuation was messed up on some parts. This would be a good book to do a book report on, but not to read just to read.

Although I have had this book for a while, I still think about the poor trees that had to die in vain for this "book". Every word written in Her Story came from either magazines or newspaper articles and it shows. There are many contradictions in the book, misinformation, and at some points the author can't even spell Mariah's name correctly! I would not recommend this book for an avid fan of Mariah's, as they most likely have the articles contained in the book. I would possibly recommend it to a new fan who doesn't know much about Mariah, but wants to

As a fan of Mariah Carey for about 8 years now, I wonder why a book like this can be written. It is completely filled with information that was taken from articles and interviews. There is really nothing knew to learn about here. The pictures are in black and white and are also taken from published articles. Although it does offer information on the qween, I am positive I could have written something much more representative of her. Its nice to add to your collection but the content is not all that great. Read it and see for yourself......

Well, ok if you DONT know much about Ms. Carey then yeah it *sort-of* has info about her in it, but its only up to 1993 and a LOT has happened since then!! COME ON SHE NEEDS A DIFFERENT BIOGRAPHY! and by an author thats not going to mess up her bday, name and punctuation in the book.. geez ppl.. ever heard of something called EDITORS!??!?! The book isnt great for a fan - just someone who might want to know a litte (VERY little) more about her..

This book had a bad beginning, focusing mainly on her mother Patricia. There was not enough information about her school days and it contained nothing a huge Mariah fan like me didn't already know. Most of the book was taken from magazine articles and the author actually spelt Mariah's name wrong. I think this book would be better for someone who wasn't really a fan, as they wouldn't know a lot about her already and the book might tell them something. This book was readable, but very disappointing.

I read this book for two reasons. One, I love Mariah Carey, and two becasue I had a book report due for a Rock 'n' Roll class. I did not like the begining of the book at all. It focused too much on her mother. It also did not say much of anything about her life in school, which really upset me. There were two points in which the author misspelled her name! I was so shocked I almost put the book down! The pictures were all old and none of them were in color. And after all the fuss about her mother there should have been a picture of her in there!!! I wouldn't recomend the book to a Mariah lover but maybe to someone who has just heard of Mariah. Over all the book was a flop! Sorry, Mariah!