Out of the Madness: The Strictly Unauthorized Biography of Janet Jackson

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Summary: better than Average but leaves some blanks
Review: I got this Book when it first came out&while it drops a few interesting things overall nothing to get excited about.you never get the full deal on Her as a Artist for example.interesting but not that much depth to me overall.

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Summary: More Like All About Jackson family Scandal
Review: The book was actually very intresting, but I do have one major complaint.....the book spent more time talking about Michael & LaToya Jackson then Janet Jackson. I have read LaToya's so called auto-biography, and I have to say, Bart Andrews took a lot of experts from LaToya's book and threw it in to his own book. Much of the gossip about Janet written in this book is so National Enquire-ish....this book contains reports that Janet had an abortion while married to James DeBarge, that Janet Jackson had a two week affair with Bobby Brown in 1990 before "dropping him like a hot potato", which causes Whitney Houston to act very coldly around Janet, it even has a few paragraphs about Janet's high profiled rivalry with Madonna. All in all the book is pretty good, but nothing I would actually take for the complete truth.

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Summary: Goes Deeper than the Headlines but Much ado about nothing
Review: The two words that come to mind in describing this book are not shocking. The name of the book should have been "All About Janet's Family especially LaToya and Joseph with a lot about Michael and Jermaine thrown into the mix." The one redeeming value of the book is that it made me like Janet even more. She comes across in the book as tough, streetwise, feisty, having business savvy, ambitious, opinionated and assertive. Basically Janet just reacts to the stuff happening within her family. Lots of quotes from other people and previously published Janet quotes. Except for 1 or 2 juicy tidbits, nothing new. For example, we learn nothing about her relationship with now ex husband Rene Elizondo or other boyfriends. Overall it was average.