She was television's most famous virgin -- and, as Aaron Spelling's daughter, arguably its most famous case of nepotism. Portraying Donna Martin on...
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Apr 09, 2008
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Ok, I know I am admitting here on this public forum, that I, a Librarian, have read the biography of Tori Spelling and thoroughly enjoyed it. Do I feel guilty about it? You bet. I know I should be reading the greats – Tolstoy, Austen, Dickens. They are heavy meals worthy of consumption. But then there are times when you just want to scarf down a dozen donuts – that’s what reading sTORI Telling was for me without all the nasty calories and only a little guilt.
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Mar 09, 2010
Myra
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Most people probably will look at this book and think, "Why on Earth would I want to read about Tori Spelling's life? She's just another celebrity who has it easy." My answer to that would be this: "Spelling's book is not what you think. It's genuine, hilarious, touching, and you may miss out on a pretty decent read if you pass it up."
Tori Spelling pretty much lays all her cards on the table in this memoir. To be perfectly honest, it's quite refreshing to see More...
Tori Spelling pretty much lays all her cards on the table in this memoir. To be perfectly honest, it's quite refreshing to see More...
Mar 10, 2008
christa
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like you, i hated donna martin for the first few seasons of 90210. mostly because she has really weird cleavage, and no one ever talked about it. picture a cutout area the shape of a squash, with its round bottom sitting on her chest. tori spelling's cleavage. this never detracted from her popularity at the fictitious beverly hill's high school. if she'd gone to my high school, everyone would have called her ole squash boobs and filled her locker with vegetables.
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Jun 25, 2008
Rhonda
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This is really a smartly written book. I thoroughly enjoyed it and it's a great read. Tori is very candid in here and seems honest throughout. She doesn't pull any punches when it comes to talking about her relationships with her parents (especially her mother) and her collegues and the press and almost everyone else.
She starts off talking about her childhood and the dolls given to her each and every birthday that were really more for her mothers pleasure than for Tori herself. To some pe More...
She starts off talking about her childhood and the dolls given to her each and every birthday that were really more for her mothers pleasure than for Tori herself. To some pe More...
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Dec 05, 2008
Jamie
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Not the most challenging read ever, but kind of interesting to hear about her life. She seems very down to Earth and fairly normal. I haven't watched any of her reality shows, but my Mom said it's fun to watch the shows, then read the book, because there are cross-over 'characters' that show up in each.
The more I read this book, the less I like it. As I continue on, Tori is starting to jump around in the chronology of events, and sometimes her thoughts seem a bit scattered. The More...
The more I read this book, the less I like it. As I continue on, Tori is starting to jump around in the chronology of events, and sometimes her thoughts seem a bit scattered. The More...
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Mar 31, 2009
Cyndi
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I loved this book! I was a big 90210 fan and would plan my weeks around the new episodes. Tori Spelling was never my favorite character, but I followed the tabloids nonetheless.
I applaud her for putting her life out there and finally doing what she wanted to do!
This book is such a fun, easy read. Its like having a conversation with her.
I applaud her for putting her life out there and finally doing what she wanted to do!
This book is such a fun, easy read. Its like having a conversation with her.
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Jun 22, 2008
Blair
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Even as Tori Spelling grates on my nerves, I can't resist keeping track of what's going on in her life - her dishy sitcom, her tawdry hook-up with current husband Dean McDermott, and her painfully scripted "reality" show. I also couldn't resist this autobiography, which is one of the first dishy, tell-all books in Spelling's (and my) generation. However, this book was less about Spelling's acting experiences and her famous co-stars as it was about growing up rich and under the thumb
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Apr 25, 2008
Amy
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My sister bought me this book for my birthday. It was the perfect birthday gift. She knows me well enough that I would never buy this for myself, but I was dying to read it after reading the excerpts in People magazine.
This is a fascinating read for any 90210 fan, of which I am proud to say I am one. I set my ringtone on my cell to play the theme song. Nuff said. Tori Spelling has had a tumultuous relationship with her mother. Now, the stories she retells wouldn't have gotten More...
This is a fascinating read for any 90210 fan, of which I am proud to say I am one. I set my ringtone on my cell to play the theme song. Nuff said. Tori Spelling has had a tumultuous relationship with her mother. Now, the stories she retells wouldn't have gotten More...
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Aug 20, 2008
Emily
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The perfect juicy summer read. Super fast. I know a lot of people have a bad perception of Tori Spelling, but she has been through a whole lot more than people realize -- and she doesn't throw a pity party about it. She owns up to her mistakes and tells her life story with refreshing, self-deprecating humor. She makes fun of herself. She seems a lot more real than some celebrities. I thoroughly enjoy this book.
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May 04, 2008
Dina
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I really liked this book! Granted I had picked it up hoping to find out some dirt on the cast of 90210 (which I still watch, occassionally, on the Soap channel). There was hardly anything about 90210 here, but I still really liked this book! (Can you hear the, almost, disbelief as I state that?) How fascinating to grow up with absolutely no idea of the value of money (Dean Martin was her Godfather and would bring her a money tree every year on her birthday), to be given a credit card in your
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Sep 07, 2008
Brandon
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It feels like so much of what would be interesting (namely behind-the-scenes info about 90210) gets glossed over so she can talk about how much she likes her current husband. Also, if her mom were any colder, she'd be a polar bear. I find the whole "Rich people: they're just like us!" argument incredibly annoying, but Spelling shows that it's true; rich folks just have more of a means to mess each other up.
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Aug 07, 2008
Andrea
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Well, I got this book and read it all in one night. That's several hours of my life I will never get back. The disconcerting part of this story is that I actually LIKED it. I couldn't put the stinkin' book down.
I could have been doing so many other things with my life. I could have been exercising or cooking or contemplating life or writing my own book. But, no. I was reading the autobiography of Tori Spelling alone on a Wednesday night with my dog cuddled up beside me.
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I could have been doing so many other things with my life. I could have been exercising or cooking or contemplating life or writing my own book. But, no. I was reading the autobiography of Tori Spelling alone on a Wednesday night with my dog cuddled up beside me.
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May 06, 2008
Alison
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Alhough I was never really a huge fan of Tori Spelling, I love 90210. Her character Donna Martin grew to be one of my favorites and at the end of the last season I was glad to see that Donna and David finally got back together (again) and got married. So after reading a little about this book, I had to do it, I bought it and it was really good. It is a super quick read. I read it in one day while on vacation. I now really like Tori despite all my preconceived notions of her over the lat 28
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Feb 08, 2009
Clare
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I have to admit that before I say Tori Spelling's reality show on television, I really thought she would be one of those Hollywood brat airheads. After I watched her show about the very pregnant Tori and her husband buying a bed and breakfast and trying to make it a successful business, I had a different opinion of this young actress. The "reality" part of the show was obviously a come-on to get viewers interested in watching the show. There was no way I believed that Tori Spellin
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Jan 11, 2009
Elevate Difference
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As a TV show runs into multiple seasons, careful viewers often catch trivial contradictions. Some backstory from Season One disappears or reverses altogether, or two characters who hated each other at the end of last season are suddenly childhood friends reunited (ahem, The L Word). Television viewers excuse these continuity issues as inherent to the form. In movies and books, however, the beginning of a story can be tweaked to match the ending before anyone has to see it. Therefore, it's disapp
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Nov 25, 2008
Alissa
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I confess. I’m a fan of Tori Spelling. I was a huge fan of 90210 (oh Dylan) and now my guilty pleasure is Tori’s reality show, Tori and Dean: Inn Love on Oxygen. So of course I wanted to read her autobiography. And I was not disappointed.
It’s short (276 pages with acknowledgements) but covers her childhood, the alleged feud with her mom, her first marriage, her relationship with Dean, basically it’s her side of everything we’ve seen play out in the tabloids for the past 3 years.
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It’s short (276 pages with acknowledgements) but covers her childhood, the alleged feud with her mom, her first marriage, her relationship with Dean, basically it’s her side of everything we’ve seen play out in the tabloids for the past 3 years.
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Oct 05, 2011
Denise
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I honestly don’t know how this book to my hands, but I do know I started reading it with a lot of curiosity. And I was pleasantly surprised by it. It’s funny, entertaining and touching. I know I wasn’t born a millionaire, nor have lived like one, yet I could relate with many of the things Tori was narrating in her book, because bottom line, we are only human.
She’s right when she says that we tend to glamorize whatever it is that we aren’t, but she can’t expect to get much sympathy j More...
She’s right when she says that we tend to glamorize whatever it is that we aren’t, but she can’t expect to get much sympathy j More...
Jul 28, 2011
I am definatly NOT a Tori Spelling fan but started to read this in a store,got interested and bought it ( yeah,it was on sale). My main opinion? Totally surprised that I enjoyed this!! It was an interesting,entertaining read!! If this is indeed the real Tori Spelling then I wouldn't mind knowing this person for real (I NEVER thought I'd say that!!) This person is FUNNY!! There were parts of this book I laughed out loud at ( like her being all dolled up for a shoot ,then some guy drives by and ne
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Oct 09, 2010
sTORI Telling by Tori Spelling is an excellent memoir written by the former 90210 star. This book details her life from her early childhood up until the birth of her first child, Liam.
The story centers around her relationships. Relationships with her co-stars. Romantic relationships. Relationships with her father and probably most well-known, her mother. It’s no secret that Tori Spelling and her mother Candy Spelling have a rocky relationship.
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The story centers around her relationships. Relationships with her co-stars. Romantic relationships. Relationships with her father and probably most well-known, her mother. It’s no secret that Tori Spelling and her mother Candy Spelling have a rocky relationship.
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Jan 17, 2010
Holly
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If you grew up on 90210 (the original) like I did, then you will really enjoy this book. Tori Spelling has been a controversial name for a long time. People have strong opinions about her, and most of them are anything but good.
In Tori Spellings first memoir, she holds nothing back. From juicy details about set hookups to setting the record straight about Shannen Dohrety's notorious nasty attitude, she lets us all the way behind the scenes of 90210. Beyond her decade shooting the show More...
In Tori Spellings first memoir, she holds nothing back. From juicy details about set hookups to setting the record straight about Shannen Dohrety's notorious nasty attitude, she lets us all the way behind the scenes of 90210. Beyond her decade shooting the show More...
Aug 22, 2009
Maria
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What better way to follow up a book about a girl living in poverty in the United States than by reading a book about one of the richest girls in the United States? =) One of the skills of a good writer is that he/she can make a piece on something as mediocre as bananas seem interesting. Tori Spelling does not have that skill. But additionally, her life is not quite as eventful or extraordinary as one might think and her memoir feels much like reading a 17-year-old's diary (plain sentences and si
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Jul 30, 2009
Lisa
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I thought this book was going to be complete fluff, and although a good portion of it was, it was also a very interesting look at Tori Spelling....my father kept making fun of me while I was reading this (which I did on vacation), he said I was "killing brain cells" reading, but I respectfully disagree. I had heard (like everyone else, probably), about Tori Spelling being cut out of her father's will to a great degree, and about some of her strife with her mother, and I had such a dif
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Jul 17, 2009
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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.
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Jun 21, 2009
Erica
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Surpisingly there were alot of things that i liked about this book. Tori is easy to like and tells storys about her life that let you realize she is human. However there were some things I majorly disliked.
I cry very easily in books so on the section towards the end when she discusses the death of her father I couldn't help but shed some tears.. then about halfway through the chapter the story of her fathers death turned into the story of her fathers money. Now the whole book was ve More...
I cry very easily in books so on the section towards the end when she discusses the death of her father I couldn't help but shed some tears.. then about halfway through the chapter the story of her fathers death turned into the story of her fathers money. Now the whole book was ve More...
Apr 21, 2009
Kim
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I never was a big Tori Spelling fan until I read this book. I've seen every episode of Beverly Hills 90210 so I was very curious about this "tell-all" book.
What I learned about Tori Spelling while reading this book made me feel sorry for her. You would think that having Aaron Spelling as a Dad, you'd have it made. It seemed like her mother was very jealous of her. Her parents never showed any love or affection and her mother always seemed to buy her birthday gifts that she More...
What I learned about Tori Spelling while reading this book made me feel sorry for her. You would think that having Aaron Spelling as a Dad, you'd have it made. It seemed like her mother was very jealous of her. Her parents never showed any love or affection and her mother always seemed to buy her birthday gifts that she More...
Sep 27, 2011
Sarah
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I grew up watching "Beverly Hills, 90210" so I'm always wondering what the cast members of that show are doing today. When I read that Tori Spelling got married the first time, then divorced, then re-married so quickly to a man who was also married at the time they met, I thought "wow, that's awful." But then I got hooked on the "Tori & Dean" shows and really grew to like them both a lot, as a couple and as parents. Anyway, this book gets into all of that. She discu
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Dec 16, 2011
Tanya
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There are definitely parts of Tori Spelling's story that I don't like, but after reading her two books back to back I'm really seeing a different side from what I first thought I knew.
I don't watch Tori & Dean. I stopped watching 90210 long before Donna and David FINALLY got married. All I knew is that Tori Spelling came across as spoiled, ditsy, and, well, that about covers it. I didn't really know much about her personal life. I mean, I like a good gossip magazine, but her stories w More...
I don't watch Tori & Dean. I stopped watching 90210 long before Donna and David FINALLY got married. All I knew is that Tori Spelling came across as spoiled, ditsy, and, well, that about covers it. I didn't really know much about her personal life. I mean, I like a good gossip magazine, but her stories w More...
Apr 15, 2010
Kat
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I've never been a big fan of Tori Spelling. I watched Beverly Hills, 90210 just like most people of my generation, and Donna Martin was a likeable (sometimes silly) character. But the tabloid stories about her and her family made me indifferent toward her. I didn't love her, and I didn't hate her. To me, she was just another Hollywood starlet who personified nepotism. But after starting to watch her reality shows with her husband and their two children, I became intrigued with her. Here was a se
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Sep 04, 2009
Kayce
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Talk about a book that will make you re-evaluate what you read in the press. I was never a huge Tori Spelling fan. I didn't think she was a great actress and figured she only had a role on 90210 because of her dad. Basically, my opinion was shaped by the media and it was exactly everything they had said about her. How harsh. Then I watched an episode of Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood and everything changed. I saw how real she was, and how funny she was. I thought her and Dean were great toget
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