Sweet Revenge
by Tom Bower
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10%
Critic Reviews: 10
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Reader Ratings: 50
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Synopsis
In this definitive biography, acclaimed journalist and bestselling author Tom Bower has set out and achieved what no author before him has-unprecedented access to Simon Cowell, one of the world's most intriguing television personalities to dominate the music industry. The result is a highly revealing and intensely compelling tome.SWEET REVENGE offers a detailed insider's account of entertainment mogul Simon Cowell's rise to meteoric fame and all of the... more
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- All Critics: 10
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- Negative: 9
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The Guardian | 5 May 2012
...thank God TV success beckoned for Cowell because musical taste never would. Sadly, once "Nasty Simon" is ensconced as an international television judge-producer-mogul, the book becomes markedly less funny, and Cowell less endearing.
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The Guardian | 26 Apr 2012
Cowell's entire life seems to be an ersatz version of something else...His lack of imagination is by turns stunning and comic.
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The Guardian | 6 May 2012
This desire to get his own back sparked one of the most important rivalries in the history of human civilisation – not to mention 150 of the most tedious pages in the history of biography...
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Independent.ie | 28 Apr 2012
Bower's book makes it clear that Cowell's one true love is, in fact, a man -- himself.
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New Statesman | 16 May 2012
The world’s greatest music mogul is a spoiled child.
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Spectator Book Club | 28 Apr 2012
Why would anyone want to buy this dreadful book?...Surely, if one wanted to read about Cowell and gaze at pictures of his over-indulged, hairy body, why not just browse the internet?
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The Telegraph | 23 Apr 2012
Cowell cheerfully admits being “a bit odd”. It is perhaps his only recorded use of understatement.
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Hunts Post | 18 May 2012
...his investigative skills cannot be faulted, but they do not transfer well to the celeb-gossip genre...Lesson to be learnt-don’t let a self-respecting, ‘proper’ journalist loose on one of our most interesting, enigmatic personalities, the opportunity will be wasted..
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Entertainment Weekly | 1 May 2012
I particularly enjoyed the ’90s pop music throwback that the book had to offer, but beyond that I could have easily skipped this one.
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Express | 22 Apr 2012
Goddamit, by the time I turned the last page I still liked Cowell. Those twice-daily baths are clearly working.
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