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Natalie and R.J.

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I think this book is definitely worth reading. It is the most objective book available on Natalie so far. Though its main focus, as the title hints, is the beautiful love story between Natalie and Robert Wagner, Harris also gives a lot of details on Natalie's death. Try to locate a copy of this...it is worth it!

The quality of the writing is poor; it would not pass muster in even most entertainment magazines. It gives little sense of Natalie and Robert as artists or as a couple, being far more interested in cataloguing their various trysts and affairs. Fans should not expect any significant insight into the making of their lives nor about their films. Behind-the-scenes detail and anecdotes are perfunctory at best. Lacking either craft in its writing or insight into Natalie and Robert themselves, it's hard to recommend this one.

I can't believe anyone would publish this book. It's inaccurate, badly written, and the author didn't even talk to anyone! All he did was copy information about Natalie Wood and Robert Wagner from easily found magazines or tabloids and recycle it without even bothering to find out if it's true.

I had expected that I would enjoy reading this book because it is about two people I find interesting. Also I had read another biography that Warren Harris had done on Clark Gable and felt that it was good.

This book however is nowhere near as good as his book on Clark Gable, not even close. Warren Harris just used regurgitated information on Natalie and Robert Wagner. It seemed as if he did not even do any research into the book: an example of this was in describing Natalie's parents. Her father was born in Vladivostok, and was poor. He also said that the same thing was probably true of her mother as well. According to Natalie's mother and half-aunt that is not true and if Mr. Harris had bothered to do any research he would have found that according to Natalie's mother and aunt they were born in Siberia to a set of rich parents, had nannies, and other household staff.

I would recommend reading Natasha: The life of Natalie Wood instead of this book. It had better, more accurate information.