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Average Rating:  out of 331 Reviews
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $12.34
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Manufacturer: Simon Spotlight
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EAN (European Article Number): 9781416950738
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Tori Spelling
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Publisher: Simon Spotlight
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Edition: 1st Simon Spotlight Entertainment Hardcover Ed
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Dewey Decimal Number: 791.45028092
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Publication Date: 2008-03-11
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Reading Level: 288
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Description: She was television's most famous virgin--and, as Aaron Spelling's daughter, arguably its most famous case of nepotism. Portraying Donna Martin on Beverly Hills, 90210, Tori Spelling became one of the most recognizable young actresses of her generation, with a not-so-private personal life every bit as fascinating as her character's exploits. Yet years later the name Tori Spelling too often closed--and sometimes slammed--the same doors it had opened. sTORI Telling is Tori's chance to finally tell her side of the tabloid-worthy life she's led, and she talks about it all: her decadent childhood birthday parties, her nose job, her fairy-tale wedding to the wrong man, her so-called feud with her mother. Tori has already revealed her flair for brilliant, self-effacing satire on her VH1 show So NoTORIous and Oxygen's Tori & Dean: Inn Love, but her memoir goes deeper, into the real life behind the rumors: her complicated relationship with her parents; her struggles as an actress after 90210; her accident-prone love life; and, ultimately, her quest to define herself on her own terms. From her over-the-top first wedding to finding new love to her much-publicized--and misunderstood--"disinheritance," sTORI Telling is a juicy, eye-opening, enthralling look at what it really means to be Tori Spelling.
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A Bonus Story and Family Photo from Tori Spelling
The Manor
 People are always asking about my parents' mansion, which they called the "Manor," but I don't really spend much time talking about it in sTORI Telling because I didn't grow up there. After demolishing Bing Crosby's former estate in Holmby Hills, a fancy neighborhood in west L.A., they spent six years building the Manor. It's about 46,000 square feet (slightly over an acre) and has 123 rooms. Not that I counted or measured. I got those figures from the press, just like everyone else. Anyway, we moved in when I was seventeen and I only lived there for two years. In some ways the house is like a normal house, but everything is on a bigger scale. It has four floors: the basement (which we call the "Lower Level," probably because that's its designation on the elevator) and the first, second, and third floors. The first floor has a kitchen, a breakfast room, a dining room, an office, a family room, a living room, and a projection room. There's a grand foyer with sweeping staircases on each side. Oh, and there's also a guards' room and the staff dining room. Everyone except fancy guests comes through the service entrance into a hallway with the guards' room and the kitchen. The kitchen is gigantic, and my fondest memory of it is from when I was twenty-one and had just moved back in after splitting up with a boyfriend. I came home drunk with some girlfriends, and we pillaged the two double-sized Sub-Zero refrigerators. There was always bulk food in there for the staff. We pulled out a big vat of chicken salad and a tub of peanut dressing, both of which looked like they'd been made for giants. Somewhere in the middle of our feast we decided to have a food fight, and the five of us started flinging food at each other. Soon we were covered in peanut dressing from head to toe and the pristine kitchen was a mess. Then we heard a ding, the elevator doors opened, and there was my mother. She stared at us in silent disbelief. I said, "We're going to clean it up!" She just said, "Mmm hmm," and left the room. I felt a surge of love for her in that moment. It took us hours to clean the kitchen, but it was worth it. That moment made it feel, for once, like home. --Tori Spelling
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Customer Reviews
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Review Summary: Very Satisfied! |
Date: 2008-12-16 |
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Details: I was happy with my purchase. The price was the best I found and the book was in perfect, new condition. Thanks again! Plus, it was a good read! |
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Review Summary: FRIEND LIKED THIS AS A GIFT! |
Date: 2008-12-16 |
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Details: I bought this book as a gift for a friend for her birthday. She reports that she read and enjoyed this book. She said that she read it and often re-reads certain parts that she liked. |
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Review Summary: Love Tori, she's a real person |
Date: 2008-12-13 |
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Details: I like how some of the reviews comment on how she was bashing her mother or she's all gushy about her love with Dean (btw it was french fries, not hot dogs). This is her life, this is her story ...as I'm sure some of these reviewers have the perfect life. I don't think one person does. I enjoyed reading her book. She is a very down to earth person not to mention a great mom to 2 adorable children, I commend her on the life she has to chosen to live. Way to go Tori, you go girl! |
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Review Summary: Sad tug of war between mother and daughter |
Date: 2008-12-09 |
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Details: ***Spoiler Alert***
As the saying goes, there are two sides to every story and the truth lies somewhere in between. I had looked forward to reading this book because I really enjoyed how funny and down to earth Tori Spelling was in her reality show and wanted to know more about her. I started out really enjoying the book. Her writing style is entertaining, popping from one subject to another and backwards and forwards in time, although at times I had a little trouble figuring out where I was on the timeline. Then I started reading between the lines.
She has so much resentment toward her mother that it overpowers the book. Everything is a passive aggressive jab at her mother. Her Nanny was her real mom, not her mother, her father loved her more than her mother, her rent was raised over the 10 years she lived in her apartment (owned by her mother who initially offered to buy it for her) and then she was "evicted". (She had taken off with Dean after cheating on her husband, left her husband living in the apartment, and never told her mother he was living there alone...maybe her mother didn't want to rent to Tori's soon to be ex? As it was, Tori explains that she was paying much less rent that she should, even with the rent increase...maybe if Tori's mother was going to rent it out to someone else, she wanted to get the going rate!)
She didn't call her mother for months at a time because her mother hadn't responded well to rude, hurtful, hateful things Tori had done, said, reported to the media and acted out on her show to millions of people. (All which had been unprovoked I might add.) She communicated by email with her family if she chose to communicate at all, but for the most part let them find out via the media about major events in her life. She chose not to see her father for nine months before he died; only visiting him once when her mother wasn't there and her brother practically forced her. She brought a large bag with her and took things from her parents house that were not hers to take.
She complains that she wasn't told about her father's death? She went out of her way to end her relationship with her mother right before he died...by email! Tori even had to make a jab at her mother regarding "firing" her father's personal assistant six months before he died...how many people need a personal assistant when they are dying? How about when Tori had her baby? She never even told her mother she was pregnant, her mother reached out to her because she had heard about it, and her mother was faulted for being late to the hospital and not asking what the baby's name was going to be.
There are so many other examples of when Tori Spelling threw a passive aggressive punch and then played the victim but I will leave it at this. It appears that her parents were trying to get her to stand on her own two feet financially and her mother got to play the bad guy. ($200,000 in debt and Tori uses the excuse that she wasn't "taught" how to budget by her parents, never thought about how much she spent and that she never looked at prices? She is not a kid; she is in her 30's!) Too bad her father only gave her $500 to help her out (after telling her not to tell her mother). He probably thought that was plenty. After all, she had starred in a high rated TV show for ten years and gotten paid plenty, to say nothing of the other movies and shows she got paid for along the way. As for her inheritance (which she asked her father about when she found out he was dying), I thought it was nice that he left her $800,000. I always thought that when one parent died, the money went to the remaining spouse and when THAT parent died you split up the estate!
As for her justification of how she and Dean handled the cheating situation ("we were in love"), that situation could have been handled in a much more mature way. Although I agree that if you are not happy in a marriage you should separate, don't start an affair (the first night they met), instead, show some restraint, tell your spouse and finalize the relationship BEFORE you cheat! Tori didn't tell her husband she was leaving; she put it off for weeks, telling everyone else she was leaving him and play him for a fool. In addition Dean's children were involved in this situation and they needed to know that they were not second best and shown that their father respected the fact that he was throwing their life into turmoil. He just left them and walked out on a family vacation.
I think the funniest, most ironic part to this book is when Tori says that she has to accept people for who they are and that she can't change them. It seems that her rule only applies to other people but she does not apply that rule to herself.
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Review Summary: Not very good |
Date: 2008-12-04 |
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Details: This book is okay. Although I thought it made Ms. Spelling appear to be a self-absorbed narcissist who is completely out of touch with the real world. She spends an inordinate amount of time talking up her "accomplishments" and trying to dispel the perception that her success is directly attributable to her family ties. Additionally, the constant complaints she lodges about her life and her overwhelming desire to be "normal" has the unintended effect of justifying the fact that she really is a "poor little rich girl." Overall, the book is irritating, shallow and confirms exactly what it tries so hard to dispel. |
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