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David Tennant - A Life in Time and Space | 
 enlarge | Author: Nigel Goodall
Publisher: John Blake Publishing Ltd
Category: Book
List Price: £17.99
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Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 822
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 5.9 x 1
ISBN: 1844546365
Dewey Decimal Number: 792.028092
EAN: 9781844546367
ASIN: 1844546365
Publication Date: September 8, 2008
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should have read reviews October 28, 2008
wish I'd read some of the reviews before buying the book. It was a easy read because it had no depth to it .I knew virtually everything from wikipedia.still the picture on the front is quite nice! There you go buy a photo instead if you're a fan!
A disappointment from the first page October 22, 2008
I've never reviewed a book before but even before getting through the first chapter I thought it was a complete waste of money and would warn others to steer well clear.
Like stated in every other review before this one, you won't learn a thing about David from this book, it was a struggle to finish it.
Could've done better myself!
?Was this proof read September 25, 2008
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This an easy to read book, but has numerous glaring errors both factually and typographically, since when did the doctor have an assistant called Katy Manning played by Jo Grant? Could have been so much better. This did not live up to my hopes for it at all.
DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY ON THIS EXCUSE OF A BIO September 25, 2008
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
*******NO STARS**********
I thought this book would be average. I was wrong -- it's extremely poor. It's so bad, I can't believe how appalling it is.
I'm struggling to finish it, mainly by skimming over huge portions of it, and I'm only doing that because I paid good money for it.
Even though it is not an authorised bio, there is nothing original in it at all. The only redeeming features: the cover photo and the catchy title. It's definitely not, as it claims, "THE" biography of David Tennant. It's barely even "A" biography, at that!
As others have noted, the text consists of huge chunks of interviews from the media which are now widely available on the internet. But it gets worse than that. It is so poorly written, it is pathetic. The chapters jump around the place, all out of sequence. Even within the chapters, the paragraphs seemingly leap from one point in time to the next with no logic or reason.
Most of the text consists of a plot summaries of everything David has appeared in. We even get about 5 pages outlining the plot of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire! And the segues from LA to Johnny Depp to Colonel Tom Parker defy all explanation.
Then at the end, there is an excuse to pad things out some more with an expansive list of film terms -- of which virtually NONE appear in the text of the book.
And finally, David's filmography right at the end is both incomplete and inaccurate. The least this guy could've done is cut-and-pasted the list from Wikipedia.
All in all, not only the worst bio I've ever read -- perhaps the worst book. I'm so sorry I contributed to this author's retirement fund.
Awful September 23, 2008
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
I picked up this book with a great deal of excitement, only to read that Goodall admits in the first few pages to taking most of the information in "his" book off internet fan pages. Fantastic start.
It only gets worse. Firstly, WHY do we need a summary of everything Tennant has ever done? We're his fans, we KNOW the plot of Harry Potter and 'Voyage of the Damned' and 'LA Without A Map' backwards. Oh, and we don't need to know Kylie Minogue's life story, Mr Opportunist.
Worse still, when you think you're going to get some real, raw, new information, Goodall veers away and talks about something else. For example, he begins to discuss Tennant's role in 'What the Butler Saw', but do we get any juicy tidbits on Tennant's thoughts and feelings about appearing naked onstage? Do we heck. We get a brief plot summary and nothing more.
In the last sentence, Goodall states, "[Tennant] keeps his private life very private." This should act as a deterrent to potential buyers: the subject matter isn't opening up, so don't expect the author to extract groundbreaking facts about him.
The photographs, instead of being photographs of Tennant in school plays and early auditions, which one might expect and which might justify spending money on this dross, are frequently-seen pictures readily available on the internet. Print on glossy paper, and you have what you're given in the book.
I feel ashamed to have bought this. This talentless writer makes money off a much-admired man who had no control over this book - though, admittedly, the incompetence, laziness and lack of committed research on Goodall's part certainly ensures nothing we didn't already know comes to light. Save yourself the money and just search 'David Tennant' on the internet.
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