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4.25 AVERAGE
4.25 AVERAGE
I’m preparing myself emotionally, mentally, and spiritually to read Manacled and this felt like required reading before I tackle the fanfic.
I loved Tom’s story, he gives the people what they want and talks loads about behind-the-scenes of shooting the HP series. He makes it a point, though, to let the reader know that he is much more than the sum of his parts, acting parts, that is, and I think he does it very well.
Read it if even just for the Dramione chapter.
I loved Tom’s story, he gives the people what they want and talks loads about behind-the-scenes of shooting the HP series. He makes it a point, though, to let the reader know that he is much more than the sum of his parts, acting parts, that is, and I think he does it very well.
Read it if even just for the Dramione chapter.
Honestly, Draco's definitely got a way with the pen..who knew?
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Wonderful. Raw. Extremely comical from my point of view. I loved how he talked about many actors that influenced him in some way, all of whom I looked up to and admired. He gave a sense of realness to them so we could see everyone for who they were outside of HP. He should take up creative writing. This book was very entertaining, yet sincere
“We live in a world where we seem increasingly in need of ways to unify ourselves, ways to build bridges and feel as one. It strikes me that very few things have achieved those aims as successfully as the brilliant works of Harry Potter.”
Tom is a beautiful and heartfelt writer who gives us a raw and honest look into his life.
While this book is a fun behind the scenes look at the filming of Harry Potter, it is more importantly, a beautiful story too of the importance of mental health.
I really didn't know what to expect but this was a beautiful memoir, very vulnerable and near and dear to my heart getting to hear Tom read it himself as his interpretation of a character in such a renowned franchise has played a massive role in feeding our childhood imaginations that later translated into renewed obsession as adults with our own interpretations and creations based on the original work. The forward written by Emma Watson in tandem with the chapter dedicated to her and their friendship left me feeling very emotional and fulfilled knowing that their closeness is exactly what we all presumed. Finished this in less than 24 hours. It was like catching up with an old friend.
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I gave this 3 stars because I like Tom Felton. He seems like a down-to-earth kind of person and is known to be really friendly and kind to his fans. Having followed him and the other Harry Potter actors' journeys since my younger days, I am definitely in favour of anything they do; the inner fan-girl in me is excited for their success.
However I think it was far too soon for Tom Felton to be writing a memoir. He's around my age, not even 40 yet. He has, admittedly, seen more adulation and success than the average 35-year-old, but nothing particularly memoir-worthy.
His narrative is all over the place, and - this keeps me up at night sometimes - the editing on this is so bad that I wish someone would reach out to me to just re-edit it. Tom mentioned that he wrote incidents of note on scraps of paper. Why didn't his editor make sense of those scraps? There is no logic between one paragraph and the next, one chapter and the next, and the narrative jumps around time and place so much that it's dizzying to try to keep up. Interestingly, I saw the same problem with Matthew Perry's memoir as well, and (to a lesser extent) with Jeanette McCurdy's.
Then there's the not-so-slight problem of outright getting facts wrong - Rupert Grint's partner is Georgia, not Georgina! Georgina is his sister! - and misspelling things. They ought to decide whether they're sticking to British English or American English. Tom's vocabulary is undoubtedly British; words like 'slag', 'bunking', 'blagging' and 'loo'. To then find American spellings like 'color' and 'realization' is so jarring. Tom lives in the US now and perhaps wanted to appeal to his American friends, but an editor should be able to take a call on those things.
I guess finally this is a charming look into the life on the sets of a massive undertaking like Harry Potter. Tom is disarmingly honest and humble about his reach, his fame and his success. After reading three memoirs from Hollywood back-to-back (Tom Felton, Jeanette McCurdy, Matthew Perry), I have come to the conclusion that the American entertainment industry is there to chew them up and spit them out. It only serves them as much as they serve it. Felton's heartbreaking confession of roaming around on Venice Beach basically unemployed despite once being a part of a massive franchise is really telling; America, the land of dreams, is a harsh place.
It's a good read if you're a fan of the series and a fan of the actors. If Tom Felton's loyal fans get the impression that he may have peaked too soon with Harry Potter, his publishing this memoir definitely proves it all the more.
However I think it was far too soon for Tom Felton to be writing a memoir. He's around my age, not even 40 yet. He has, admittedly, seen more adulation and success than the average 35-year-old, but nothing particularly memoir-worthy.
His narrative is all over the place, and - this keeps me up at night sometimes - the editing on this is so bad that I wish someone would reach out to me to just re-edit it. Tom mentioned that he wrote incidents of note on scraps of paper. Why didn't his editor make sense of those scraps? There is no logic between one paragraph and the next, one chapter and the next, and the narrative jumps around time and place so much that it's dizzying to try to keep up. Interestingly, I saw the same problem with Matthew Perry's memoir as well, and (to a lesser extent) with Jeanette McCurdy's.
Then there's the not-so-slight problem of outright getting facts wrong - Rupert Grint's partner is Georgia, not Georgina! Georgina is his sister! - and misspelling things. They ought to decide whether they're sticking to British English or American English. Tom's vocabulary is undoubtedly British; words like 'slag', 'bunking', 'blagging' and 'loo'. To then find American spellings like 'color' and 'realization' is so jarring. Tom lives in the US now and perhaps wanted to appeal to his American friends, but an editor should be able to take a call on those things.
I guess finally this is a charming look into the life on the sets of a massive undertaking like Harry Potter. Tom is disarmingly honest and humble about his reach, his fame and his success. After reading three memoirs from Hollywood back-to-back (Tom Felton, Jeanette McCurdy, Matthew Perry), I have come to the conclusion that the American entertainment industry is there to chew them up and spit them out. It only serves them as much as they serve it. Felton's heartbreaking confession of roaming around on Venice Beach basically unemployed despite once being a part of a massive franchise is really telling; America, the land of dreams, is a harsh place.
It's a good read if you're a fan of the series and a fan of the actors. If Tom Felton's loyal fans get the impression that he may have peaked too soon with Harry Potter, his publishing this memoir definitely proves it all the more.
emotional
funny
informative
inspiring
medium-paced