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Editorial Review:
A revised version of the 2008 biography on the late great actor!
Charlton Heston: An Incredible Life: (Revised Edition) Reviews:
Please break that exclamation point key! 
2009-09-15 - I wonder if this person even bothered to proof. I've seen better work from junior high students. But first off--she needs to break the exclamation point key off the keyboard. I'm reminded of what Lewis Thomas said in his great essay "Notes on Punctuation."
"Exclamation points are the most irritating of all. Look! they say, look at what I just said! How amazing is my thought! It is like being forced to watch someone else's small child jumping up and down crazily in the center of the living room shouting to attract attention. If a sentence really has something of importance to say, something quite remarkable, it doesn't need a mark to point it out. And if it is really, after all, a banal sentence needing more zing, the exclamation point simply emphasizes its banality!"
From The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher (1979:103-6).
Buy this "book"
2009-06-10 - I love this work for the same sort of reasons I love the movie "plan 9 from outer space". The plentiful typos and jumbled prose made for compulsive reading. Another huge bonus is the large amount of empty space, you can use these to cut out pictures of Chuck , and glue them in wherever you feel is appropriate, making your copy unique and personal to you.
For pure reading pleasure, this book is on a par with the product reviews written by the big bopper and the wise one.
This is probably the worst book ever published, and should be celebrated as such. For that reason, I heartily recommend it.
Clunky, amateur work--just awful!
2009-06-02 - This is precisely why they tell aspiring writers NOT to self-publish. Lacking an expert set of eyes to help edit and re-write, an amateur ends up with clunky, awkward phrasing and--god forbid!--typos. Yep! If Ms. Bernier can't spell, do you think she can write in an engaging manner? You be the judge: read the first couple of pages. It reads like a high schooler's biography. Gag!
What IS this, exactly???
2009-02-02 - Okay, right off I'll admit that I've not purchased this "book." And I'm not going to. I read the first page with the on-line reader from Amazon (thank goodness!), and the writing is extremely poor, to be kind about it. Bad grammar, bad punctuation, bad spelling, jumbled thoughts...and then to see the review that mentions it's mostly blank pages?!? This appears to be tantamount to a child's memoir, and might be excused as such. As an individual's personal tribute to this great man, it would be acceptable to the writer at least. But to pass it off as "a true character study," well, start by getting a proofreader before you publish your next "work." And, who on earth is Michelle Bernier, anyway??? Stick with "Charlton Heston: In the Arena" or "Charlton Heston: An Actor's Life." Or, "To Be a Man: Letters to My Grandson." I wonder what Lydia, Fraser and Holly Heston think of this "work"?
Worst book I have ever seen
2009-01-28 - This book has mostly blank pages. When added together it might have ten pages of text. This is really a joke, and even if given away free it is not worth the price. Terribly disappointing.
