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d_in_japan 's review for:
Spare
by Prince Harry
I finished reading "Spare," and I'm glad that I did. I'm also really glad that I've never followed royal news or kept up with their gossip because it made the book all the more shocking to me. The moral of this story is that people's curiosity about the royal family has fueled the paparazzi and has resulted in a complete loss of privacy and the publication of out-and-out lies. When a photographer can get $30,000 dollars for a good print of someone doing something in their private life, something is definitely wrong. This happened to Diana, it happened to her children, and sadly, it will probably happen to the next generation as well.
It's a memoir, so clearly, this is one person's viewpoint of events, and there are probably people who hold different ones. And I think that Harry might regret saying some things about his family, particularly his brother, in such a public forum. I think the rivalry petition between the brothers is probably normal, but the circumstances they live in are not normal. But in the end, your siblings are the only people you really have that are the closest to you, and I doubt if what was said will be easily forgotten. Nothing terrible, but could have probably been swept under the rug of public view.
The first part of the book was the most interesting, but I felt sad that a young boy lost his mother and then did not really receive the emotional support or therapy that probably could have gone a long way in making the way things turned out differently. I skimmed over the war and combat scenes because I'm not so interested in that. The way the press hounds the royal family is really shocking, and I finished this book with a lot of sympathy for Harry and Megan (although I have no intention of watching interviews or following up on this in the news media).
One scene in the book I could relate to. Harry did his grocery shopping at a local store in disguise and usually hurried in and out before the paparazzi could find him. But one day, he went into the supermarket, and they had changed the location of all the goods, so he couldn't get his groceries and run. Don't we all hate it when the supermarket does that, and we don't know where the stuff we want is?
The book is worth reading, but I'm glad I got it from the library.
It's a memoir, so clearly, this is one person's viewpoint of events, and there are probably people who hold different ones. And I think that Harry might regret saying some things about his family, particularly his brother, in such a public forum. I think the rivalry petition between the brothers is probably normal, but the circumstances they live in are not normal. But in the end, your siblings are the only people you really have that are the closest to you, and I doubt if what was said will be easily forgotten. Nothing terrible, but could have probably been swept under the rug of public view.
The first part of the book was the most interesting, but I felt sad that a young boy lost his mother and then did not really receive the emotional support or therapy that probably could have gone a long way in making the way things turned out differently. I skimmed over the war and combat scenes because I'm not so interested in that. The way the press hounds the royal family is really shocking, and I finished this book with a lot of sympathy for Harry and Megan (although I have no intention of watching interviews or following up on this in the news media).
One scene in the book I could relate to. Harry did his grocery shopping at a local store in disguise and usually hurried in and out before the paparazzi could find him. But one day, he went into the supermarket, and they had changed the location of all the goods, so he couldn't get his groceries and run. Don't we all hate it when the supermarket does that, and we don't know where the stuff we want is?
The book is worth reading, but I'm glad I got it from the library.