MTV's Real World Chicago

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Summary: Great Supplement to a Great Season!!
Review: Aside from Chris (who is rather boring and quite unattractive), this season of the Real World has boasted an outstanding cast! This book is great at giving even deeper insights into the personalities of these diverse and interesting folks. Not only do you hear what the roommates thought of each other, you also see portions of their applications to be on the Real World as well as explanations from the producers on why these individuals were cast. I would love to know how these folks reacted to what others said about them in this book. Highly recommend!

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Summary: The greatest reality book ever!
Review: Based on the popular show on MTV, it gives a great overview of the whole season. It gives behing the scenes facts about the show. Easy to read and if you didn't watch the show you could still learn so much about the cast and the show in general. Great read!

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Summary: Everything You Want
Review: Dying for more details about what went down in the Chicago house? This book gives you everything you want and more! Along with many great pictures, the cast members talk about everything from adjusting to life in front of the cameras to fighting over the phone. If you've read previous Real World books and liked them, you'll find more of the same great inside dirt in this one.

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Summary: Not So Good
Review: I love the Real World and I always try and buy the books that come out after the show has ended. I was disappointed with this one because it came out in the middle of the series and gave away stuff that happened in the latter part of the series. I know that it's not a movie, where the ending matters, but I was bummed to learn the Keri and Kyle ended up leaving on bad terms. After watching the show it made more sense to me, but while reading the book I learned that they weren't talking and didn't know if they could ever be friends again. I was bummed to get information from the book that I hadn't yet seen on the show. It seems like some of the earlier Real World books tell more secrets and off-camera stuff. Get it from the library!

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Summary: Not So Good
Review: I love the Real World and I always try and buy the books that come out after the show has ended. I was disappointed with this one because it came out in the middle of the series and gave away stuff that happened in the latter part of the series. I know that it's not a movie, where the ending matters, but I was bummed to learn the Keri and Kyle ended up leaving on bad terms. After watching the show it made more sense to me, but while reading the book I learned that they weren't talking and didn't know if they could ever be friends again. I was bummed to get information from the book that I hadn't yet seen on the show. It seems like some of the earlier Real World books tell more secrets and off-camera stuff. Get it from the library!

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Summary: Real World review
Review: I thought this book was great. Basically it reinforces your views on the cast members and gives you more information both about them and what went on. One thing that surprised me was the stuff about Cara-- I liked her much more in the book than on the show! Anyway, it's a great book for people like me, who, if the Real World is on, can't NOT watch it.

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Summary: The Real World - Chicago
Review: Not a bad book at all. Personally, I don't care for the eleventh season of "The Real World". This season seemed to focus around three storylines. The book was a refreshing source of what REALLY happened in Chicago. It gives the reader an idea of what the cast was really like. What they REALLY thought. The book includes cast views about themselves and each other. There are casting excerpts, as well as house facts as written by the director and cast commentary on the drama that went down. There is also an application for "Real World XIII". Overall, I would suggest this book to anyone that has followed the season thus far.

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Summary: The Real World - Chicago
Review: Not a bad book at all. Personally, I don't care for the eleventh season of "The Real World". This season seemed to focus around three storylines. The book was a refreshing source of what REALLY happened in Chicago. It gives the reader an idea of what the cast was really like. What they REALLY thought. The book includes cast views about themselves and each other. There are casting excerpts, as well as house facts as written by the director and cast commentary on the drama that went down. There is also an application for "Real World XIII". Overall, I would suggest this book to anyone that has followed the season thus far.

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Summary: The Real World - Chicago
Review: Not a bad book at all. Personally, I don't care for the eleventh season of "The Real World". This season seemed to focus around three storylines. The book was a refreshing source of what REALLY happened in Chicago. It gives the reader an idea of what the cast was really like. What they REALLY thought. The book includes cast views about themselves and each other. There are casting excerpts, as well as house facts as written by the director and cast commentary on the drama that went down. There is also an application for "Real World XIII". Overall, I would suggest this book to anyone that has followed the season thus far.

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Summary: This is for you, Lou
Review: One September evening in 1992, my college roommate, who liked to sit in his bedroom with his bong and his tiny black-and-white TV, came out and turned on the large color TV that sat atop stacked milk crates in the center of the common room. He was motivated to make the move not because he preferred the color set - he thought color was for philistines and that the true beauty of the televised image was best expressed in black and white, like French new wave cinema -but because the common-room TV got cable rather than just networks, and there was a new show on MTV that he had to watch. That show was The Real World, a documentary soap opera that followed the lives of eight young adults thrown together for the first time in a loft in New York City. "This is going to change the world," he said.

My roommate was not right about much. He thought that the Chicago Bears would be a NFL dynasty before the nineties were out and believed that hurricanes were aliens. But he was right about the Real World. The last time I talked to him, he was organic farming somewhere in Massachusetts. He didn't have a car. He hadn't heard of DVDs. But he had a television with cable so that he could watch the Real World.

He would love this book.