Angelina: An Unauthorized Biography

Her life was like most average teens/young adults that grew up with good looks and wealth and wanted to appear different and rebellious. Always on that quest of life, like most children given weak boundaries by too busy, or negligent parents... there will never be peace.The big reveal in this book for me was the heroin use, and that to me is a very troublesome aspect of her life as not your average problem to conquer. But for you fans, this is not a slam piece written with an agenda, the author is both kind and tough, and impartial.You wont get the intriguing thrill and entertainment out of this that you got from Morton's Diana and Cruise biographies, but still worth reading.

Buy this book, of only to find out that beauty does not equal happiness or contentment

Well written but boring at times. It’s a good pick up put down book. I would recommend if one is a fan or simply curious.

This is Molly Sherry reviewing this book. All in all I thought it was a good read...I tend to like anything Andrew Morton writes. AJ is portrayed as a wild child that grows into a bit of a nut job. Extremely complicated issues with BOTH of her parents. As a woman I think that I can say, that I wouldn't trust this woman around any ones husband! What a man eater!!!

I just finished reading Angelina by Andrew Morton and Brangelina by Ian Halperin. I enjoyed Angelina very much. Well written and informativ. A waste of my money and my time to read Brangelina. What a difference. 2 books bout the same people and one was very well researched and the other one not. Andrew Morton is a the professional biography writer. After Diana he did another very good job.

I give this book 5 stars, not because it was fan-tabulous and extraordinary, but because it was exactly what I expected it to be. It's like a giant Angelina-specific issue of U.S. Weekly. Honestly, it's probably not the best book if you're looking for a serious historical biography, and overly worried about things like truth. Or, even if you're really looking to get to know the real Angelina Jolie. This is pure tabloid fodder... but, tabloid fodder at it's finest!In fact, I'm slightly ashamed to have purchased it. I'll never admit to my friends that I read it (ALL). But, I did. I read the whole darn thing, and enjoyed every schadenfreudian moment.

after seeing her in movies and then watching the transition from teen to mother of 6, a goodwill ambassador for the U.N. it was amazing to think this woman could rise above the drugs and anorexia, the family dynamics, the gossip....or has she, I think it remains to be seen. A great read, interesting, informative and a good pace.

After reading this it all becomes clear why Angelina is such a nutter. She had crazy parents who did a terrible job raising her. In her early years she was "raised" by a succession of acting students because her mother and father couldn't be bothered.You thought her French kissing her brother on the red carpet was shocking. That's just the tip of the iceberg. This book reveals juice like how she would have doctors draw her blood so she could make blood paintings for Billy Bob, she had an affair with the much older, wrinkly, Mick Jagger (Yeech!) and married Billy Bob so she could adopt Maddox (no adoption agency would give a baby to a recovering heroin addict who had just gotten out of the loony bin.)

It said very good condition. The condition was fine but the front page was ripped out, so possibly wouldn't class it as very good. with regard to the book, I am really enjoying it and I feel very sorry for any man who has crossed paths with her!

I did like this book but it really makes you think if everything he wrote about her is really true. I prefer autobiographies tbh, because it's actually written by the person, in their words.

Thoroughly enjoyed it always knew she was strange, Interesting facts and fantasies about her and her mother who was also very weird

This book is good for a leisure reading. She has an interesting story of life. I did like this book.

I 'm enjoying read this book as of now and it's very interesting, to know about actor that I'm a big fan of, that's why I rated this way

Interesting book. Andrew Morton always finds a way to dig into celebrities lives.

What can I do in reviewing this book except give you my overriding impressions?The first one is about the subject matter as Andrew Morton likes to portray her. Under his hands, Jolie comes out of this book as a nasty, mercurial, capricious, selfish, unfaithful manstealing drug addict who continually lies and presents the truth to suit her own needs. It's not a flattering portrait by any means. Manipulative, destructive and shallow, Morton presents us with a picture of a woman driven by a series of addictions and compulsions. She is a whirlwind of sexuality and deceit who is quite happy to walk into stable relationships and wreck them. Even her later work with the UN is portrayed as in some way capricious and self-serving, and under Morton's eye even her treatment of the kids she adopts is at best worthy of suspicion and at worst actually illegal. Unlike Jolie, this book is not pretty. There is something mean of spirit in Morton, and it comes through in the overall impression her gives of Jolie, rather than the facts of her life taken individually.The cause for Jolie's unstable personality as it is here presented leads me to the second observation about the book. Morton is just as happy to point to the fact that Jolie is a Gemini to account for her character traits as he is to fill the pages with whacky post-Freudian psychobabble to describe her motives. The book is much better when Morton is not theorising on the deep unconscious reasons for Jolie's behaviour and actually tells you about her behaviour. I don't expect to be told about her personality on the basis of her star sign or spurious psychology just as I wouldn't expect to be told that the lumps on her head are evidence that she was more amorous than other women, or that the full moon turns her into a werewolf. That, Mr Morton, is space-filling - and piss-poor writing.That said, this book does give an account of Jolie's life which - with its emphasis on destructive sex and drug abuse is like watching a slow motion car crash. She cuts herself as a kid, her mother gives up her bed to Jolie and her boyfriend when the couple are just 14, Jolie nearly stabs him to death and he does the same for her at the same age and both go to hospital... And so the sad show goes on. The young Jolie takes copious drugs and screws anything that is slightly warm and still breathing, and appears perfectly happy to wreck relationships and treat the people around her like disposable syringes. Essentially, she is portrayed as a fickle, feckless "user" - in all its connotations.It's not nice reading, but I suspect it is in part accurate - though it skims over Jolie's acting skills and attempts pat "psychological" interpretations of her life as seen from the outside rather than giving a genuine insight into the woman herself. In Morton's telling, the life she leads becomes so debauched and so dissolute that even she can't handle it any more - the night she shares an apartment with her lover, ex-husband, lesbian ex-lover and her girlfriend and has a breakdown is pricelessly funny in the deadpan way it is delivered by Morton. I don't think he was meant to be funny, but one can have little sympathy for a two dimensional character who has been set up by the author as someone willing to make that much of a mess of her life apparently on purpose.The character of Jolie is remarkable in this book simply because she weathers it all. She's portrayed as a kind of adult role-play Lara Croft who raids married men's beds rather than ancient tombs. Where others would go to pieces, she simply goes for the next fix, which is either a tumble in the hay with someone else's husband or a shot in the arm to keep her going. Unafraid to wreck the happiness of others to supply her own obsessions and compulsions, I found that I at once hated this version of Jolie and begrudgingly admired her for her apparent armour-plating and psychotic self-serving.Her treatment of her father Jon Voight throughout is awful. Morton implies that Jolie wants to blame him for all her woes rather than address them, mature and grow up. This, could be true, I suppose, it could be the extreme life that the extremely wealthy lead, or it could be a gross caricature. If it really does lift the lid on what is beneath the surface beauty of Hollywood, and of Jolie, then it made me glad of my rather boring life.To be frank, I felt grubby reading about Morton's Jolie and her shenanigans. Some things are better left unsaid. And some books unwritten. There is a far better biography of Jolie waiting to be written.

Liked the book because it includes so many things about the actress that I had no idea about eg. her past relationships, her childhood, her drug use! Really well written also

I just love Angie.

B-e-a-utiful!So so good, to read, Andrew Morion does her life justice. His words are diffidently Award-Winning!Im so glad i have the chance to get to know one of my all time favourite actresses life. To understand her more. Her life.Her family. Career. Everything of her is in this book top to toe. Love it!The product condition in arrival, was very good, no damage at all, i think it is a very fair price for what it is. The contentis worth the price. Recommend Buying It.

I am not an Angelina fan but I love biographys, especially about controversial people. I was a little hesitant about buying the book only because she is only 35 years old and I wasn't sure if there could be that much interesting information to compile an entire book and keep the reader interested. I found this book very interesting even though there has been so much information & celebrity gossip out there about her for years. I found it very well written and researched. The book starts with the life and relationship of her parents, her childhood, her drug use & other destructive behaviors, her romantic relationships & marriages, her career, and finally her UN work, her children, & Brad Pitt. I was most interested in her relationship with Billy Bob & Brad Pitt because she wasn't totally forthcoming about what actually happened between them. She will definately go down in history as a great actress & and an even bigger man eater/heart breaker.

I had come across so many articles against this book that it's surprising I even considered buying it. But Angelina Jolie is an interesting subject and Andrew Morton is the undisputed master of his genre, so these considerations changed my mind. Having read it now, I am not disappointed at all - in fact, I am pleasantly surprised at how extensive and non-judgmental it was and a bit annoyed with all the untruths that almost stopped me from having it. Morton is a very clever writer and doesn't judge anybody in his book - he just lays down the facts and lets you draw your own conclusions. So I did. There is a vast wealth of information about Angelina's early life and I think the book's greatest accomplishment is that it tells a lot about Angelina's family background, the Bertrands and the Voights - the rest we have more or less heard before. The overall artistic presentation is beautiful and adds another star for me. Highly recommended - at least, you'll hear some new things, unlike the run-of-the-mill biographies whose previews on this site show beyond any doubt that they just arrange and re-arrange old information from the tabloids in different forms.