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Prince Harry’s controversial autobiography “Spare” has shattered the United Kingdom’s record for the best-selling nonfiction book in history, its publisher announced on Tuesday.
“Spare,” which details Harry’s account of his various personal troubles and contentious relationship with other members of the royal family, has sold approximately 400,000 copies in hardback, e-book and audio formats since its official release Tuesday.
“We always knew this book would fly but it is exceeding even our most bullish expectations,” Transworld Penguin Random House managing director Larry Finlay said in a statement on the sales record.
“As far as we know, the only books to have sold more in their first day are those starring the other Harry (Potter),” the statement added.
Surprisingly, the local library sent a copy to me. I'd only put my name down on the wait list a little bit ago. It's a 'troubling' book, for sure.
Parts are profoundly misleading to the point of being outright falsified. Harry leaves out key events in accounts ... ignores major factors to craft analyses that are incomplete at best. As a writer, he employs a very bad habit of direct quoting another then weaving the quote into HIS version of events making it 'evidence' for Harry's assertions. Not!
The book structure is uneven: long discourses on Harry's inner self complete with extensive descriptive passages of important events in his life. Into that he places brief kamikaze style attacks on his family that frankly are very hard to figure out - unless, of course, the reader just wants to adopt Harry's conclusion.
Overall it's is a very sad book - of a troubled man who experienced significant trauma from early life events that he has yet to overcome to live life as mature healthy adult.
Surprisingly, the local library sent a copy to me. I'd only put my name down on the wait list a little bit ago. It's a 'troubling' book, for sure.
Parts are profoundly misleading to the point of being outright falsified. Harry leaves out key events in accounts ... ignores major factors to craft analyses that are incomplete at best. As a writer, he employs a very bad habit of direct quoting another then weaving the quote into HIS version of events making it 'evidence' for Harry's assertions. Not!
The book structure is uneven: long discourses on Harry's inner self complete with extensive descriptive passages of important events in his life. Into that he places brief kamikaze style attacks on his family that frankly are very hard to figure out - unless, of course, the reader just wants to adopt Harry's conclusion.
Overall it's is a very sad book - of a troubled man who experienced significant trauma from early life events that he has yet to overcome to live life as mature healthy adult.
I think you've written a good description of the book (although I haven't read it but have seen him so much on tv and have heard so many quotes.) It's a shame that there will be more books, more dragging up the miserable past instead of coming to terms with it and trying to heal. I guess one thing that really gets me is when he says THEY can apologize. Not Harry and Meghan, THEY have nothing to apologize for, it's everyone else's fault. Everything is someone else's fault and H&M are patiently awaiting an apology. Good luck with that!
I am halfway through and I think he is mentally unwell. He’s also been spoiled rotten. He needs help. He’s very delusional.
He says he loves his father and brother but I don’t believe him. He brags how he was such a great soldier, but I don’t believe that story either. Someone that dumb can’t be a pilot.
I am halfway through and I think he is mentally unwell. He’s also been spoiled rotten. He needs help. He’s very delusional.
He says he loves his father and brother but I don’t believe him. He brags how he was such a great soldier, but I don’t believe that story either. Someone that dumb can’t be a pilot.
Scary, isn't it?! Yes, and he and the other numbskull are raising 2 children.
I've always been interested in the British royal family; but I will definitely avoid this book and all of Harry & Meghan's TV appearances. Life is too short to waste time on this nonsense.
I've always been interested in the British royal family; but I will definitely avoid this book and all of Harry & Meghan's TV appearances. Life is too short to waste time on this nonsense.
A person with class never trashes their own family. I am so sick of hearing about this couple. Why do news organizations help troublemakers. No I don't want to see anything about them or read anything about them. I wish they would leave America.
Prince Harry’s controversial autobiography “Spare” has shattered the United Kingdom’s record for the best-selling nonfiction book in history, its publisher announced on Tuesday.
“Spare,” which details Harry’s account of his various personal troubles and contentious relationship with other members of the royal family, has sold approximately 400,000 copies in hardback, e-book and audio formats since its official release Tuesday.
“We always knew this book would fly but it is exceeding even our most bullish expectations,” Transworld Penguin Random House managing director Larry Finlay said in a statement on the sales record.
“As far as we know, the only books to have sold more in their first day are those starring the other Harry (Potter),” the statement added.
The book appears to be very successful.
NONFICTION? got to be joking this is Peter Pan the boy who never grew up...only he lives in La La Land..
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