Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins

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• Have names, will drop 'em

  Red Carpets and Banana Skins by Rupert Everett Little, Brown £18.99, pp416 In one episode from Rupert Everett's memoir, the author and a friend stay up all night brainstorming. They are supposed to be coming up with ideas to fix the script to a doome ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

• The fun king

  Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins by Rupert Everett 416pp, Little, Brown, £18.99 The other day I bumped into Rupert Everett in the street. We had a cordial chat and promised to meet again, but we didn't. Since the heyday of our friendship we have be ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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  A lovely book that Rupert Everett has written himself, not aided by a ghost writer, as most celebrities do nowadays. The writing style is masterful. Not a word is wasted and mere paragraphs make you feel you went places you've never seen before. This is truly an example of how autobiographies should ... (continue)

  A lovely book that Rupert Everett has written himself, not aided by a ghost writer, as most celebrities do nowadays. The writing style is masterful. Not a word is wasted and mere paragraphs make you feel you went places you've never seen before. This is truly an example of how autobiographies should be written.
  I enjoyed the book hugely. I would only have two criticisms, one that it was sometimes a bit repetitive, and two that I found the shifting back and forth of the time frame rather confusing. I would also say that for all the wonder and glitter that the book shows I was more interested in the loneliness of his life and his schizophrenic pull between the hedonistic pleasure seeker and the clearly very intelligent person looking for meaning in a world that seems empty.

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  Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins

  This memoir is basically a collection of loosely chronological anecdotes from Rupert Everett's life. Rupert is a wry story teller and most of his anecdotes are highly enjoyable, but the book really could have used an editor to give it some cohesion and flow (not to mention someone to correct those ... (continue)

  This memoir is basically a collection of loosely chronological anecdotes from Rupert Everett's life. Rupert is a wry story teller and most of his anecdotes are highly enjoyable, but the book really could have used an editor to give it some cohesion and flow (not to mention someone to correct those pesky little grammatical errors). I did enjoy reading it, but had no problems setting it aside either.

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  Readingrat said on Sep 16, 2008 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Paperback 416 Pages
• Edition: New Ed
• ISBN-10: 0349120587
• ISBN-13: 9780349120584
• Publisher: Abacus
• Pub date: Jul 05, 2007
• Also available as: Hardcover, Audio CD and eBook

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