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Title: Self-Aggrandizement in a nutshell.
Review: My first reaction upon reading the first 100 or so pages of this book was that Korda thinks he is really great and wants to tell us all about it!! Korda mocks his readers with his self-congratulatory tone throughout the entire book. Korda has talent as a writer, but wastes them here in a high class, status conscious, name-dropping book (who cares if he lived for 2 years as a child in Beverly Hills? Isn't the title "A Memoir of OTHER People"??). A well-written memoir engages the reader by adding creative flavor and story-telling to its non-fiction nature. Korda fails to do that here.
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