Best Diana book I've read to date | The Diana Chronicles

Best Darned, Well-Written Diana Story Yet | The Diana Chronicles | Tina Brown

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	• The Diana Chronicles Tina Brown Doubleday, 2007 - 542 pages average customer review:based on 132 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Recommend this book

Highly recommend this book, I feel Tina Brown was writing a honest book about a friend she once knew. Many of the statements have heard before but this book is well written. Highly recommend....

Best Diana book I've read to date

I've done a great deal of reading about the late Princess and find this to be the canniest and most even-handed portrait of all the personalities involved to date. I attribute this to good sourcing (and author Tina Brown moves in circles where she would know how to get to them), sympathy to all points of view while maintaining objectivity (and backing up conclusions with evidence), and, most differently, a good understanding of both the British culture that embraces the Royal Family and the American culture that found the Princess just as fascinating as the Brits did. It's got the juice factor, of course, but it is also a good biography of a much-studied personality, with cogent insights that pin down some of the fluctuating versions of well-known events in the royal marriage. She does not see Diana as a saint, but gives her much credit for her good points as well as bad, and is just as discerning with the other characters in this remarkable story.

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Best Darned, Well-Written Diana Story Yet

Before I read it I wondered what new information could possibly be revealed about the life of Diana Spencer, but after hearing so many positive comments regarding the book during television interviews with the author (most notably on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, an outspoken non-royalist) I decided to give it a go. What new information is there? Pah lenty! This book met all of my criteria for a splendid read: 1) it is extremely well-written; 2) it had a lovely, tragic heroine; 3) it had not one, but several villains; 4) it held my interest on every page; 5) it is a certified page turner; 6) many previously unknown facts were revealed; and 7) despite the fact that everyone knows how the story ends the reader is glued to every last word, which can hardly be seen through all the tears that are shed (at least in my case, for what it's worth). I highly recommend this book.

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Tina nails it

This has to be the definitive Diana book. Well, never having read another, I need to read no other. Tina Brown is the perfect person to have written this. She understands the relevance to the debate over the monarchy, she has the lingo and manners down pat, having existed on the inside of the aristoratic fringe, and knows the media revolution that figured so heavily into the whole pageant, and which was so well understood by Diana. This is actually a gripping as well as near perfectly written account of a phenomenon that grabbed even the unwilling, such as this reviewer. You will not want to have finished reading it.

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