Customer Reviews

Pandering

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4 star:		(5)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(3)

 

 

Many details are told and supported by Fleiss' story, court transcripts and various interviews. This world of wealth, drug use, celebrities, powerful people, LAPD, lies, conniving, deception, world travel and kinky sex, is a real-life look into the debaucherous world of Hollywood that piques the interest.

The constant bickering among Madame Alex (died in '95), Ivan Nagy, and Heidi open the doors to this world of raggedy, back-stabbing, shallow people who have the propensity to lie about what they eat for dinner. But then again, this is L.A.

This book is interesting and describes the workings and personalities of this world. She did make it in her heyday. From her good family and upbringing in Los Feliz which is in the Hollywood/LA scene to her 1.5 million dollar home she purchased from Michael Douglas in Beverly Hills. She did it. Should means justify ends?

What brought her down was her flamboyance, flaunting, and high profile. She talked too much, and in this industry one must be discreet. The police don't care about Madames who "pander," as long as they keep quiet, and provide information as informants. Heidi wasn't quiet, and her info. to the police was often incorrect and/or useless.

Now that she has fallen, she can try to sell the experience of this past, because the present for her (like her past) only has old-bags of wind with deep pockets who'll be her meal-ticket. And today (2003)she's out of her prime even for them. As Madame Alex said, "she wasn't even a 4.5 on a scale of 10," and she sure hasn't improved today. Mentally, she's still a 16 yr. old who's still selling her a** because that's all she's got--besides this book. Kudos to Heidi for putting it out.

To set your expectation, this is not a novel. Its a yearbook. If you are a fan of thesmokinggun.com and prefer to read 10 pages of telephone transcripts, rather than having a writer recreate the story for you, then you'll love this book. This is clip art and color copying at its best -- she includes copies of her own notes and address books, questionnaires from her girls and logs and logs of court documents and phone taps.

I would have preferred to hear the story as told to an author, rather than this peek into her photo album.

I like Heidi Fleiss and think she's very intelligent, but this book was such a disappointment for me. First off, it looks like a photo album, and has pictures and newspaper clippings of all her stuff, and every couple of pages their is some of her writing, but not much. It's more about a book of pictures with summaries. No thanks, I have my own photo albums to look thru.

One of the most conterversial women of the century. Easy to love and easy to hate. One thing for sure is the madam gets people worked up. Besides the fact that I pick up on different things everytime I look through this book. All the articles and goverment documents and a wild dimension.

This book is awesome! I enjoyed it so much more than I expected. The creative non-traditional format, the images, colors, etc - it was hard to put down. I especially appreciated Heidi's insights and all of her 'lessons learned' while she was the 'Hollywood Madam'. I hope she creates more books for us.

Visually stunning with an incredible story- Heidi is a very strong woman. I love displaying this book on my table. It causes such a bid discussion and debate. Very controversial- I love it!!

Yes, it may be sleezy, and yes, people may think the pandering business is immoral, but what a life! The book is full of wisdom, and Heidi is a respectable person because she learned from every experience she had. Hell, she had more of a life than most of us ever will.

I wish I worked for you Heidi. This book is so dense with an abundance of information. I love every page.

This is not so much a book as a scrap book. It is just a collection of news clippings and photographs that are arranged in chronological order without any detailed notes to accompany them. I am not sure if the editor was on crack when he/she/it approved it or if he/she/it just got their brains microwaved.

She invented a new genre! It's a biographical coffee-table documentary. It's loaded with info, philosophies, newspaper clippings, court transcripts, wire taps, art and photos. It's a book I keep picking up. No matter if I start at the beginning and go cover to cover, or pick it up in the middle somewhere, it is revealing and entertaining. Whatever you may think about the "profession", it's an amazing read, not to be missed!