Customer Reviews

Star Struck: A Novel

5 star:		(5)
4 star:		(5)
3 star:		(6)
2 star:		(4)
1 star:		(6)

 

 

Okay..never considered to be a big Pam fan, but I am a Tommy Fan (or should I say Jimi Fan?)and LOVED getting the dirt on their relationship. After reading Tommy's version and remembering when she had her miscarriage (and the blood thirsty media chasing her that day), this book was sad and moving....A great "beach" read...Reads easy and makes time pass quickly.
Give us another, Pam...and to all those downing your books: Pam might not be George Orwell or Hemmingway, but if you are looking for that type of book, why did you buy this one in the first place?

The prequel to this book, Star, was a lot funnier and more entertaining then this dreary trash. Granted, I'm not calling Star a great work of literature by any means (I'd give it 3 stars), but at least it made for a good "junk" read. In Star Struck, nothing flows or connects, thanks to the horrible grammar and editing. The sex scenes, which are probably supposed to be this book's selling point, make you cringe and wish it were over after the first sentences. It is a quick read, much shorter than Star was, but the pointless plot and mind-numbing organization will force you to put this book down before you reach chapter 3. To give you an idea of how bad the flow is in this story, imagine reading something that is composed entirely of random sex scenes and dopey dialogue cut and pasted onto book pages.

I skipped to the last few pages of the book to see what came of this mess, and between the sentence fragments and rushed final scenes, I can confidently summarize this 190 page disaster in 5 sentences:

1) Star ends up tripping on ecstacy that is slipped in her drink by rock star Jimi Deed, and ends up marrying him that night.
2) In between sexing each other up in their post-ecstacy haze 3 days later, Star whines about this random guy who has been taking pictures of her everywhere for his website.
3) By coincidence, as soon as this mystery character is mentioned, he is discovered in Star and Jimi's hotel room and makes a run for it, and ends up danging from the balcony, or something.
4) Without a single thought regarding the situation, Star and Jimi (now sober) pry the photographer's fingers off the balcony and record him with a camera plunging to his death, and then go about their normal lives like they didn't just murder a human being.
5) Star gets bad press for being a heroine fiend, her brother Hank ends up stealing tapes Jimi and Star have, including the one recording the photographer's murder, Jimi and Star get in a car chase with the police, they try to drive off a cliff together, but the cops stop them and end up shooting Jimi up as Star is dragged away and screaming that she is pregnant with Jimi's baby.

There. I just saved you from what could have been the most agonizing hour of your life. Let's hope that both Jimi and any hopes for a sequel to this book stay dead and burried.

What a drag. I, like most of us, ordered the book as a fun summer beach read, like the first book by Anderson. Look, if there are mispellings and punctuations in the preface, you know it's not gonna be good. And it isn't. While the first book, Star, was fun and frothy and made some sense, this one seems rushed to print and because of that, doesn't flow, doesn't connect and just is in no way believable. Half the fun of the first book was trying to figure out who everyone was in Anderson's roman a clef. Not so with this book, just a random plot (killing people that annoy them?) with a ridiculous, "Thelma and Louise" ending. Save yourself the money, don't bother with this one.

Yes, so , you walk into the tiny innocent branch of the sleepytown public library and there you see something you know you're taking home: the beautiful naked Pamela Anderson laying in the sand. My tween daughter asks: "Mom, why do you like Nasty Books?" as I lay the book on the checkout desk face down only to discover Pamela's tattooed tush ... admittedly I like the back cover better and I'm not in the slightest bit a gay woman. She's referring to my reading Jenna James' memoir a little bit at a time over the last year. Somethings are just so beautiful on the outside, you forgive the dirt, sin, flaws, demons and high caloric passion driven indulgence on the inside. That's how I felt about "Star Struck." It is a pretty book - creates awesome showbiz/rock 'n roll imagery, but it's crashing, banging and coming apart at the cleavage heavy seams all around. I liked it, but after reading the first 80 pages, I purposely turned pages 2 or three at a time. To answer my daughters question, I'm a whole scary lot like the book and the ladies who write what she calls "Nasty Books" on the inside and maybe the outside: sex crazed and just living our sweet lives and making the most out of them while we sincerely smile and try to stay good and guided. So, if you've got some time to kill and like the butterflies fluttering around your loins while you read, you'll like this book. But you'll loooooove the covers!

Just like her other book, this was a fun read if you want to step into the mind and stories of Pamela. It is a hilarious quick read, with lots of little stories that remind you of the crazy tabloid tales of when she was with Tommy (aka "Jimi", in the book). Only problem, I didnt like the far leap into fiction towards the end -it seemed like the author and her ghost writer didnt want to say what really happenned between these two and concluded the story with a "Thelma and Louise"-type ending. Not as much fun as the first book, and just a little sexier... :)

This novel starts out somewhat like a thinly veiled Pamela Anderson autobiography. Entertaining, wild, raucous, sexy and hard to put down. However, without spoiling the ending for those wishing to read it, the ending was highly disappointing. It seemed very abrupt, rushed and above all completely ridiculous (and not the fun kind of ridiculous we've come to love from Pam's first novel, Star) Truly, the ending left me wondering why I had bothered wasting my time reading Starstruck at all.

I read this book in like a day. Really fun and crazy. I think she was definetly writing about her life but the part that is exaggerated was that her first film was a huge success. hahaha. And the parts where she talks about being on set of her two shows were so boring, I couldn't wait to read past those parts. ps: She's a bit full of herself but who cares. It's a fun read.

This book reads like your paperback porn novel, definitely not as good as the first one. If you like gratuitous sex this is the book for you.

I loved "Star". "Star Struck" was a great fun read till the end. The end just didn't fit with the book. Both the books kinda read like her life with a few changes. Both are easy nonthinking reads.

The book started off great. Steamy and hot at the beginning. Once Jimi and Star had their abrupt meeting with an unwelcome photographer, it just went down hill from there. I did not like the character of Jimi at all!! In Pamela Anderson's first book Star, Star Wood Leigh was a loveable character with a lot of zing! In Star Struck, Jimi turned out to be a self-centered, spoiled, immature, perverted a**hole and took Star down with him. I was hoping the second book would be as fun as the first, but I was terribly disappointed. It was as though Pam Anderson just quickly threw the ending together just to get it done and over with. I did not feel the energy at the end. It wasn't even original! I was never a Pam Anderson fan untill I read her first book. I thought the second book would be just as good. I hope she writes a 3rd book and makes it fresh with that original zing.