Jennifer Aniston Books

I walked into the library looking for a last minute book to read, and came across this book displayed in the young adult section and thought I should give it a go. I am SO happy I did! It was such a good book, and one that I didn't want to put down, wondering what was going to happen next. It did help that there were numerous Jennifer Aniston and "Friends" references, two of my favorite subjects!

Definitely would recommend it!!

Being a guy and not really connecting with the cover and the subject matter, I thought I'd get bored with this book half way through it. I was really surprised to see I wanted to know what happened to Meg from chapter to chapter. I didn't want to put the book down.

The writing is wonderful, the story is compelling and the characters are so very real that you will start to wish you knew Meg in person.

Though this book is clearly written for Woman, it has a big heart that anyone can connect with.

I loved Love, Meg because it kept taking me places I didn't expect. I didn't even expect to read it. I like adventure books. But my friend sent me the link, I heard the sample, and I bought it. Love, Meg is an adventure book.

First she crawls thru the wild world of Hollywood High. I laughed out loud ten times easy. I had just got what chic books were about when this big bomb goes off. A guy shows up and blows up everything Meg believes in. I wasn't laughing then, I was all into it. Then she starts all over again in another city-jungle, and goes hunting for .......You got to read that for yourself.

It would have been even better if an alien had climbed out of her Uncle's head or something, but when she gets the boyfriend that makes up for that. I was rooting for him under the boardwalk. There is another time when she's in an office talking to this business man when my heart was actually pounding in my chest, just like was happening to Meg. Nothing ever works out like I think in this book, and that includes the ending. I didn't see it coming. I was rooting for her boyfriend again then.

The next time I get a link to a chic book, I'm going to do the exact same thing. I'm going to listen to the sample. The rest.... I don't know.... but I highly recommend THIS book for both laughs, cool chic adventuring, and also I even got seriously into what happened to her and her family(s.) Go figure.

For as long as she can remember, Meg has been raised by her older sister. Lucie is the only family she has, and they move around quite often, but Meg's fairly well-adjusted for a fifteen-year-old. Even though she lacks long-term friends, she loves her sister and she has a pretty cool pen pal: actress Jennifer Aniston, who has been responding to Meg's letters for years.

Then the sisters move to Hollywood, where someone finds them and reveals the truth about their family - something Meg never suspected, something Lucie always hid, something that will change their lives forever.

C. Leigh Purtill's debut novel will appeal to teens, especially those who like to daydream, but might never admit to it. In fact, adults who remember writing fan letters to their idols will like it too. Though the main character in this story choose to write her letters to modern-day actress Jennifer Aniston, it's far less about the who and more about the what - that this character chooses to tell a stranger all about her personal life while keeping her real friends and family members at arm's length. That is very telling about her character, right from the start. Before the book is through, Meg grows up a little, both by chance and by choice, and she finally lets others into her life.

Meg Shanley has forever longed for a "normal" family. Big sister Lucie is the closest thing she's got - and Meg's life with Lucie is anything but normal. Flakey and irresponsible, Lucie flits around from job to job and town to town, dragging a hapless Meg with her. The only thing Meg has ever really been able to count on is her correspondence with the affable Jennifer Anniston. Because Jenn, unlike Lucie, is always there with the just-right advice, and has never let Meg down. Love, MEG is a stellar debut novel. C Leigh Purtill hits just the right notes, striking the perfect combination of love- and coming-of-age story. Every family has secrets, and every kid dreams of living a normal life. And as readers follow Meg Shanley through her journey, they will not only identify with her struggles, they will come love her warmth and authenticity.

I read her mother's biography which was reiterated in the first many chapters of this book. It was somewhat entertaining, but not profound or too revealing. I ended the book with a sour taste for Ms. J. Aniston. She seems to lack a bit of class and loves the "f" word! It seems like she has grown immensely from her split with Pitt, but her growth was warped by such sudden fame. I think in many ways, she still seems lost.

This is a great book on Jen. Well-written and filled with plenty of color photos! Definitely highly recommended for Jen fans. You will be very satisfied.

Bottom line of this book is how can any celebrity treat their mother like dirt and not have anything to do with her for 9 years just over one stupid TV interview. I guess Jennifer does not have a forgiving bone in her body. She dumped her own mother and began clinging to Courtney Cox as her surrogate mother. If anything, Jennifer is the needy, whiney and insecure and selfish person here - not Nancy Aniston. Nancy has gone through horrifying things in her life and did not have a nervous breakdown and was able to care for and nuture Jennifer and what did Nancy get for that? A big, fat kick in the rear. Children are not perfect and neither are their mothers. Talk to each other and work things out is what you do. There are too many children who are treating their parents this way nowadays. Why? Because they don't want to be bothered - they don't want to spend time with them as they are too busy with their own lives and family. It is sickening. Family values have gone out the window. I think Nancy wrote a true and honest heartfelt account of her life which does include Jennifer whether Jennifer likes it or not. Nancy has every right to write a book if she wanted to. Everything is not all about Jennifer. What? Jennifer becomes a movie and TV star so her whole family has to stop existing and speaking?
Pa-leeze...

This is one of the most trite books I have ever picked up to read. The entire story is that of a desperate woman trying to understand why her famous daughter no longer desires a relationship with her...well it is obvious! She sold her out once during a television interview and in her attempt to rekindle the relationship she sold her out again by writing this trashy novel.
Throughout the book she attempts to appear deep, when really her writing comes off worse than a beginning writing course at a community college.
This book is a serious waste of time and money, and frankly if I were Jennifer Aniston I wouldn't bother with a mother like that either.

I just finished this book, and I can't believe the reviews I've seen here. Did I read the same book as the rest of you? It seemed to me to be a thoughtful, sincere effort to understand the sad estrangement from her only daughter. One television interview warrants 8YEARS OF SILENCE? Give me a break!!! While the actors on Friends are certainly talented, no one deserves that kind of money! Her mother did without all those years, supported her, emotionally and otherwise, and this is how she is treated? I don't think the mother is self-centered, egotistical or borderline, at all. It sounds to me more like you're describing her daughter. I'm a firm believer of "Karma", and I really believe this will come back around to haunt Jennifer. I would give anything to have my wonderful mother here to talk to. I think Nancy Aniston has done a courageous job of "getting on with her life". I totally recommend this book. Karol Santiago

i think this is a great warning to women who give their whole life away to their husbands and leave nothing for themselves.
I feel bad that Jen's mom would reveal too many intimite details of her life. Nancy shouldn't have revealed as much as she did and I get the impression that she hid a lot of facts
from us. I feel for Jen and I like her even more now because of the book. Her mom did a good job of portraying jen in a good light and i do hope they can reconcile. I've heard that they have. I also hope that Jen can help her mom financially, since it is hard to be a full time mom and that rat ex of hers left her with hardly anything.

Nancy Aniston is a very bitter woman. Her memoir is written with such condescension about her family and friends that one wonders if her psycho bable camaflages her self centered personality. It is clear she is jealous of her daughter's celebrity status and wants the world to know how responsible she was for Jennifers talent, only to be rejecterd by Jennifer in favor of hangers on and Jonnie come- late-lies. (lies?, that's interesting how that spilled out.)) The memoir is revenge against Jenifer, and is ugly and in bad taste.

This book provides exactly what you want - a list of addresses for basically every relevant celebrity in the world. Many books on this subject contain lots of pages filled with useless recommendations and sample letters, all of which are easily accessible on the internet.

If you are an autograph junkie, fundraiser or just a big fan of celebrities, this is the book for you. Get your letters ready because you will have more than enough addresses to start working with.

Many of the people listed in the pdf. are dead; a shocking number of the supposed celebrities can be contacted only through a medium. Unless you're interested in communing with the spirit world, skip this volume entirely. A complete waste of money, with incomplete addresses, typos galore, contact numbers through agencies rather than personal info; a complete waste of your time, and your money.

This is only 64 pages long and is "library bound"; that is to say, tha construction is sturdy enough for childrens' sections of public libraries intended for lending to kiddies, who are just as likely to beat their little siblings or their teddy bears with it as read it without it disintegrating. Twenty six dollars US and one finds multiple offerings on abebooks from English and French booksellers for a comparable price.

However if you are going to produce physical books appropriate for toddlers then the contents should be equally appropriate for toddlers. So the level of understanding of the intended audience ahould be behaviorly exemplary as well. That is where this sort of product falls short on the usefulness scale. Since the level of writing is labled as being for ages 4 to 8, one wonders why the entangled life styles of many celebrities would be considered fit for young children to read about, let alone emulate. The sturdy physical form of books found in children's sections should include age-appropriate content.

This means that the contents shouls be appropriate for young minds. TV in recent years has become coarser in its use of language but that is no reason for kiddies to be encouraged to use the ancient Anglo Saxon terms for various personal activites whixh we all know but onxw were discouraged from using in "polite society". Just lke we did, the kiddies will use those words anyway. :O The content should be of some interest to youngsters. But the tales of celebrity couplings and other activitie must be so bowlderizwd for this age level that there would be nothing pertinent sbout personal life. Daytime TV features pre-school learning in the forenoon and fornication, adultery, and other socially undesirable activties in the after noon!!

In any case, while post-pubescent teens and adults may understand and avidly follow the ins and outs of celebrity couplings, those sorts of activity are hardly to be emulated by children. Fornication, adultery, and mayhem were not covered in "Chidren's Activites" magazine that I read when I was a child. Celbrities' promiscuous life styles are inappropriate for kiddies. On the other hand, consenting adults should do what they like if it is not personally harmful or socially disruptive.

The "family values" ranters do have here a relevant point of no little consequence; many celebrities' private lives are hardly examplary except in a negative way. Not to be emulated. For every long term marriage such as that of Paul Newmn and Joanne Woodward there are dozens of promiscuous players and serial marriagers.

The "Hollywood Life Style" is nothing to be held up as a social model. But the motion picture industry has recently tried to sort out its audiences, and TV has the rather ineffective lableling system. But the latter goes down the tubes when such gruesome and brutal series such as Third Watch, and scary and sexually rampant series originally aired in prime time such as Buffy and Angel are syndicated and strip run during the daylight hours when the kids are home from scchool. Movies and TV are full of tales of the high life and low life. Nothing new; from the days of Fatty Arbuckle through Errol Flynn (Who titled his memoirs "My Wicked Wicked Ways")to the presnnt. The coommon catch-pharase oft heard during WW II, "in like Flynn" was a reference to his notorious talents as a swordsman in both senses. ;0.

Not that it is only celebrities in the entertainment business who are now or have been notorious; there are enough corrupt politicians, straying priests and evangelists, crooked businessmen, hopped up and artificially enhances athletes, and brutal gangsters whose storiess could fill books. (The famous Babe Ruth was a well-known drunk and carouser. Just one historical example.)

Snd then there have been famous bi-sexuals, homosexuals, and lesbians both in and out of the closet from olden times to today. Whitman ( the poet for whom nany schools are named) Hoover, Hudson, and many others come to mi
I do not intend to condemn their way of life; I think any non-harmful activity that consnting adults participate in are fine so long as they don't bother anyone else. The nineteenth century saw, "Do what you want, just don't do it in the street and scare the horses!" is still relevent. But we should not set the doers up as examples for living, and especially to pre-adolescents who have not yet reached he "Age of Reason" as defined by many faiths.

Nor are these comments meant as personal criticicism of clebrities' private activities. I follow the press on actresses, singers and others in publications ranging from Vanity Fair to US. The significant word is private. Who needs to know who does what whan and where with whom?

The paparazzi press is full of irrelevancy.(I stop there; no Weekly World News or Enquirer for me!)) I follow Jennifer's because I enjoy her acting ability in varous film roles, not just Friends. But what social uses have the details of her personal life. And this is not criticism of such trivial but responsible magazines as US. It's coverage is restrained compared with some. I subscrible to Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, EW, snd give a reward for sticking to the professional work for the most part to EW and the new incarnation of TV GUIDE.

Even so, one wonders why some excellent actors get excessively dtailed personal coverage in the "celemags" and some of equat talent don't. For example the adept Reese Witherspoon who leads a stable married life while yet the multi-tletned Ashley Judd in recent years has for the most part sppeared in the fashion press, and is ignored by the paparzzi.

So, the conclusion is that if you are going to publish books in a sturdy form approprate to children's sections then the content should also be appropriate for children. Leave adult subjects to the post-adolescent and adult markets.

I'm a Jennifer Aniston fan and I found this book well-written and interesting. The woman is an awesome talent, and I find her inspiring -- a class act and a great role model for women. I first read this bio in a library and liked it so much I bought a copy for myself!

As an Angelina Jolie fan, I thought this book might be interesting. Mind this, it's not because I deeply respect and admire Angelina that I don't like Jennifer Aniston : I have nothing against that very good actress and I am sorry for her that her marriage to Brad Pitt didn't last. To the book now : I have the clear impression this book announced as a thourough study of the relationship between Brad Pitt and Jennifer and later to Angelina only adds to the gossip we could (and still can) read in the yellow press. The author never met one of the three persons involved nor relatives ... What was her starting point to analyse the relationship ? The summary on the back cover makes us believe it is a serious study, and in fact it is not. So I prefer to warn possible purchasers : don't expect an objective analysis; it is a very personal point of view of the author, you may or may not agree with, of course.

I immediately regretted buying this book after the first few pages. For one, the author obviously did not even bother to do spell checking, proofreading or editing! It is full of grammatical errors which made me suspicious right away if the contents are legit. I read through it because I was hoping I would be somehow pleasantly surprised at the end but it just didn't deliver. I would sum this up as tabloid fodder disguised as a worthy book.