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Summary: Slightly flawed, but no less informative.
Review: "Passion Celine Dion: The Book" is, to begin with, the contents of the old "Passion Celine Dion" website. Though the webmaster, Sylvain Beauregard, closed the "Passion" site's virtual doors in September 2003, the extent of his work continues to live on through this book.
This book is intended neither as a biography nor as a picture book. It's a reference guide, containing exhaustive information on the singer's releases of albums, singles, b-sides and chart information. While several b-sides, rare songs and remixes are not listed, the author does his best to cover as much as possible in the 244 pages of information.
In fact, the only thing missing from the book that was on the website are the lyrics and translations. However, that is understandable as the lyrics are under copyright and cannot be reproduced for the purposes of gaining a profit. The information contained within the pages of this book go from her humble beginnings to March 2002 -- the release of the "A New Day Has Come" single and album.
I, for one, have gotten as much use out of this book as I did with the website. The book provides for at least one of my reasons for visiting the "Passion" site. One reason was for the extensive discography information, which I have since expanded upon for my own Celine Dion fansite. The other reason I visited his website was for the lyrics, which I am also working on providing in my website.
This book is not for the new fan. It is for one who's already a diehard, like myself. Forget what you've heard about Sylvain and judge the book on its own merit. It has much to offer, especially for those who are curious as to the statistical data of her career up to Spring 2002, the music-oriented geeks, and the fans who must have EVERYTHING pertaining to her on their book and CD shelves. However, if you want a biographical account of her lifestory, you will want to look elsewhere.
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Summary: Passion Celine Dion Lost On This Reader
Review: I have many problems with this book. I am indeed a fan of Celine Dion's, yet, I feel too many meaningless boring books have been written about her life. I am not a huge Dion fan yet I have read most of the English texts on her life.
I am not farmilar with who this author is and I do not understand why he goes on and on about his education, his affiliation with Dion, and the work he put into his self proclaimed "Best website ever on the singer". This indeed does not sell the book, it only builds up to what I have found to be a pointless factual boring book. This book is great if you are interested in chart performance and album sales.
If you are looking for a great read on Dion's life stick with the Authorized Biography or the book that Dion wrote herself, much more entertaining. This book is much hype and leaves the reader totally dissapointed and confused about why they purchased it. Please don't waste your money! I feel this book is a product of some type of twisted obsession and it's almost like this person thinks Dion owes him something because he simply created a website for her???? Did that make her the global superstar she is today?? I think not! Yet, he has used her name and image to further his own projects and has made money off Dion's name. This book is no better than the other trash that has been written about the singer. Please, don't waste your money.
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Summary: Passion Celine Dion Lost On This Reader
Review: I have many problems with this book. I am indeed a fan of Celine Dion's, yet, I feel too many meaningless boring books have been written about her life. I am not a huge Dion fan yet I have read most of the English texts on her life. I do not understand why the Author goes on and on about his education, his affiliation with Dion, and the work he put into his self proclaimed "Best website ever on the singer". This indeed does not sell the book, it only builds up to what I have found to be a pointless factual boring book. This book is great if you are interested in chart performance and album sales. If you are looking for a great read on Dion's life stick with the Authorized Biography or the book that Dion wrote herself, much more entertaining. This book is much hype and leaves the reader totally dissapointed and confused about why they purchased it. Please don't waste your money!
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Summary: Don't Spend Your Money
Review: I think I now know more about the person who wrote this book than I do about Celine. Buddy, no one cares!
According to Mr. Beauregard, Sony and the entire music media business would crumble and collapse without him. His "passion" for Celine goes far beyond being a fan and straight into obsession. I think it would serve Ms. Dion well to post a guard outside her door when this guy is around.
There is some interesting stuff in the book, but it's nothing that's not in any of the other books about Celine Dion.
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Summary: Legend in His Own Time
Review: Sylvain Beauregard has done what no other Celine Dion fan has, created not only an amazing website, full of facts and the only complete French/English Celine song translation option, but he also created a book for those who wanted to take this information home. Credit where credit is due.
Merci Sylvain!
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Summary: It gets one star because zero was not an option...
Review: Sylvain Beauregard is WIDELY known to die-hard (and average) Celine fans as having a very large ego, not shutting his mouth, and insulting every other Celine fan out there. Take the "Syl" off, and you have his real identity. I have never read this book, and I never will. Endorsing this man and his work is an insult to Celine herself. Sylvain says he has all these contacts with Celine, her staff, etc. but he has never met her, which I find very odd. If you REALLY want to know about Celine, read her AUTHORIZED biography and autobiography. If you really love and admire Celine, DO NOT humor this man.
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Summary: Enough already
Review: This is what you call "overkill." How many books need to be written on Celine? The only book you need to get on her is the official biography and maybe her autobiography. This book by Sylvain is a waste of money. He is widely known among the Celine Dion community on the Internet as an arrogant loud mouth who spreads rumors that turn out to not be true. I don't know how in the world he got this published. Trust me, if you want an accurate book on Celine buy one that is official.
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Summary: Enough already
Review: This is what you call "overkill." How many books need to be written on Celine? The only book you need to get on her is the official biography and maybe her autobiography. This book by Sylvain is a waste of money. He is widely known among the Celine Dion community on the Internet as an arrogant loud mouth who spreads rumors that turn out to not be true. I don't know how in the world he got this published. Trust me, if you want an accurate book on Celine buy one that is official.
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