Hollywood Babylon: The Legendary Underground Classic of Hollywood's Darkest and Best Kept Secrets

Great read. Mind boogling

Interesting i like reading what goes on in Hollywood even the scandals, this book is telling them all

Anger's famous book about the hedonsitic early years of Hollywood. The all-powerful studios wanted the cinema going public to think their stars were pure whiter than white and often covered up their goings on. This book was something of a sensation when it came out in the 1970'sA knowledge of some of the early film stars would help. The author throws names around like confetti, you might not be familiar with some of the actors/actresses who populate the pages. There are some gorgeous publicity photographs, and some not so gorgeous death scenes.This book is best read in small portions, as I'd imagine ploughing through chapter after chapter of film stars variously shagging, drinking, injecting substances, becoming bankrupt, fighting court cases and OD'ing (even sometimes all of these things) would only get boringly repetetive. A good scandalous read if you like this sort of thing.

Good.

This book is a great read - loads of Hollywood gossip and stories I didn't know about. Compact little paperback, lots of photographs throughout. First class condition, arrived quickly too.

Some titillating tales but a bit disappointing overall, very short chapter style of this book means you never learn more than a few snippets about each star,

This was a present for Christmas so i can't comment too much but if you like the subject matter, you will probably like this book. Hubby loved it and found it very interesting.

Not my kind of book - badly written