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The Bastard of Beverly Hills

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I received this ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

I'm adopted, so I enjoy reading books about the journeys of other adopted people. This was a good read, almost seemed like a mystery at first! I kept wondering who his biological parents were. Honest story, well told. I just wondered why he called his parents ( the people that raised him) by their first names. To me, my biological parents are birth mom and dad, the folks that adopted me are mom and dad. And I lost both of them by the time I was 14, so my 'mom' now is the one I've had the longest!

Worth reading, even if you aren't adopted. After all, we all have our own stories!

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Well written and kept my interest even though I'm not usually interested in comments about celebrities. A strange view into Hollywood culture. Things happen there that you don't often hear about. Recommended.

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I was attracted to this book by the cover and the premise. As I was reading, I found the story to be disjointed, and the narrator to be rather unlikeable. This book read like a summary of events, without a lot of descriptive details, and it jumped around so that the timeline was difficult to follow. The author's note at the end provided a bit of clarity about his choice for writing his memoir as he did, but I feel that that should have been at the beginning of the book.

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