Spilling the Beans by Clarissa Dickson Wright
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Book Reviews of Spilling the Beans
Book Review: Spilling The Beans
Summary: 3 Stars
This is a wonderful copy of the book, clean and arrived promptly from England. The Biography runs at a fast pace with so much "name dropping" it keeps you going, but gets tiresome. I find I have to read it in small amounts, a chapter or less at a time.Book Review: A little mystified
Summary: 1 Stars
I LOVED the TFL show but after reading this [it took me a long time, I can usually read a good book in a night], I wondered why I read it. The first part was especially painful- trying to remember all these names she dropped- if you are not from England, much of the language was indecipherable. All I can say is that I was disappointed, the book was poorly written [in my opinion] and despite her difficulties with alcoholism, I found it hard to sympathize- it smacked of "entitlement." Very few hardcore alcoholics make it out of the gutters [and I speak from experience- I worked in detox for a long time] but she had the connections to smooth her way once she got sober. I do miss the show but it seems that she and Jennifer were not as close as I had surmised from the show and that also disappointed me. But I do congratulate her on her sobriety.Book Review: This book 'ain't a mucher,' I'm sorry to say!
Summary: 1 Stars
'Spilling The Beans' is an amusing title and the dust cover portrays the author ('hideous' in Roy Hattersley's reported comment, though I don't commend him, either), but the work itself ain't a mucher (as some of us country folk say). One wants to be generous to an author who has suffered a lot and, by her lights, has come through to have a 'splendidly enjoyable life,' but her account is clearly not consistent with the facts in some places, and is not well-written or edited. Clarissa Dickson Wright's fans will still love it, I suppose, but I was pleased to put it down at its end and then to get on with some decent reading.