This might seem a bit offensive to some of you, i dont know but do you like biographies? if so, why?

I tend to think biographies are humorless and therefore i don't take chances with them. But i have seen those who talk about MJ's "Moonwalk" (Which i yet have to read...) say its really good. Maybe its because it was their favourite musician and felt you need to read it to be closer to him. I don't know. But when i look at others biographies when i browse at the book shop - i just shrug and move on...

What do you think?

Depends on the book and the celebrity, I guess. Also if it's an autobiography (self written) or just a plain old biography (written by someone else). Biographies often tend to be full of hearsay, half truths or exaggerations. :hmm:

I read Moonwalk many years ago and it was a little bit boring. MJ didn't reveal anything much that we didn't know already at the time. It's a really nice book to have in hardback form, though.

An autobiography I do recommend is ''I, Tina'' by Tina Turner. It's very frank and details her tough life at the hands of Ike.

I hate biographies. I don't like the idea of someone writing about another person's life. What do they know? How do you know they didn't twist all the stories and everything around?

I don't find them interesting because its just the same old story you hear everywhere. I'll use MJ as an example. On every "special" on TV or anything written about him in a magazine is the same story - he was a child star who missed out on his childhood, his father was abusive, he was an amazing singer at a very young age, he broke barriers here and there, and eventually he became a world renown superstar.

How many times can you hear that kind of story without getting bored? I would never buy a book if thats all it was about.

Autobiographies, on the other hand, I can handle. If its from the person's perspective and they are writing about their own life then thats great. I think it offers a bit more than the typical biography does. I thought Tori Spelling's book, sTORI Telling, was great. Also, Augusten Burroughs writes about his life (not necessarily autobiographies) and I like the way he does it. Its more like memoirs and short stories from his life so its less like a timeline.

It really depends on the person... If I admire someone famous, than I want to know every detail of his/her life and work. That was the case with Michael, and with my favourite writer, Truman Capote for example. Both of them had fascinating personality and colorful life (in my view!). Besides, the two books are in many ways different... MJ's Moonwalk was self-written and 300 or something pages. Capote's bio was written by someone else and 700 or so pages long. But... I couldn't put down neither of them. It's just subjective... I just love reading about different people from different eras...

^^ MJ's book wasn't entirely self written, though. It was co-written with a ghost writer.

As much as I feel sorry for them and angry that this stuff goes on (and pleased they're reaching out to others), I am sick beyond belief of all those child abuse memoirs. My aunt seems to think I love them and I have a whole shelf full of books about children who were traumatised by their parents. I'm starting to get worried that people think I really enjoy reading them.

I've never really been one for celebrity (auto)biographies. I've read Moonwalk and an MJ biography, but that was to get a basic idea of what I didn't know. It was fairly easy to tell what was fanfiction and what wasn't. I like reading biographies of historical figures though.

As much as I feel sorry for them and angry that this stuff goes on (and pleased they're reaching out to others), I am sick beyond belief of all those child abuse memoirs. My aunt seems to think I love them and I have a whole shelf full of books about children who were traumatised by their parents. I'm starting to get worried that people think I really enjoy reading them.

I've never really been one for celebrity (auto)biographies. I've read Moonwalk and an MJ biography, but that was to get a basic idea of what I didn't know. It was fairly easy to tell what was fanfiction and what wasn't. I like reading biographies of historical figures though.

I 100% agree with you! But as for my bookshelf, im more of a hopeless romantic one, the type of falling in love.