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Story of Alanis Morissette

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This is a book of Alanis mostly for pictures. They are good quality, huge, and many are full color. However the writing is not that thorough. Really all you need to know is read the back of the book ten times, and you will have read the whole book. The writing is actually really sucky, and she covers her days on Nickelodeon in one paragraph. Here is that paragraph: Alanis landed herself a starring role on the Nickelodeon cable tv shoe "You Can't Do That On Television" at the ripe old age of ten. As she would years later tell "Rollingstone" magazine, "It was a good, stupid, sarcastic kind of show. Very obnoxious and very tongue in cheek." That is all she wrote. STUPID and BORING! Especially that part about being the "ripe old age of ten." It's an excellent picture bio though.

The early pages of the book seemed empty to me because the first two albums created when Alanis was young and distributing her music only in Canada were never released to the wide audience that were thrilled by Jagged Little Pill. Page 23 has a picture of songwriter/producer Glen Ballard at the 1996 Grammy Awards. There is no index or Table of Contents, but a section called Intellectual Intercourse starts on page 20. Alanis explained how working together with Glen Ballard blew their minds:

It was the most spiritual
experience either of us
ever had with music. The
whole thing was very accelerated
and stream of consciousness. (p. 20,
quoting a Rolling Stone Nov. 2, 1995 issue).

The movie The Dance of Genghis Cohen contains a line:

I died out there,

for the experience of a comedian who gets no response from an audience. Much of American culture operates at a level that is appropriate for a dying people. As Dorothy Parker said:

I'm so indecent, I should
be dead. All of my friends
are dead.

What is most familiar to us as wannabe performers is:

Pent-up reactions to what
life had so far offered her
before had only surfaced in
the form of anxiety attacks. (p. 23).

This book is a good book if you like pictures but if you don't it sucks it has way to little info to be a great book like Alanis Morissete A Biography from Paul Cantin

When I got this book it pretty much blew me away because I didn't know anything about her. But now I know that it's basic stuff any self-respecting fan should know. The pictures are great, though, and die-hard fans might even want to take it apart to tack on their walls.

i think that any book about alanis is worth buying im a majore fan. this book pretty much tells the basic info but it does have great (crazy)pictures of alanis

I liked this book a lot more than the others written about Alanis. The information is pretty basic, and most die-hard Alanis fans like me would already know most of the stuff. Still, it's a wonderful book and it's definitely worth owning

This book has a lot of rare and nice pictures, but the information is nothing new. I think some information was a little false, but all in all it is a good book. I guess that it is written mainly for people who don't know as much about her,to read. It was a little short, but Alanis IS a fairly new artist ( However she did have records before,she was never recoginised as much

This book has some wonderful pictures of Alanis...most of the info is basic though...there were few things that I didn't already know..but the pictures were great! It's the perfect addition to any Alanis fan's collection.. :

This is the first Alanis bio book. It has a lot of fantastic pictures, and the info is accurate and pretty interesting. However, the info is concise, so if you want a lot of detailed, cool stuff, read Paul Cantin's book (it's a 10.) It's a colourful addition to any Alanis collection.