| Mariah Carey Revisited: The Unauthorized Biography | 
 enlarge | Author: Chris Nickson
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Category: Book
Buy New: $13.90
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Avg. Customer Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 1183988
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 192
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.5
ISBN: 0312195125
Dewey Decimal Number: 782.42164092
EAN: 9780312195120
ASIN: 0312195125
Publication Date: September 15, 1998
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Condition: DISCOUNTED DUE TO SLIGHT PAGE CURL. Normal shelf wear.
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Product Description
One of the hottest pop divas in the world, this hip, gutsy, talented superstar is the top-selling female singer of the nineties.
Mariah Carey Revisited is a must-read for in-depth, up-to-date information on the singer's recent world tours, collaborations (with hip-hop artists like Puff Daddy and Bone Thugs-n-Harmony), her sexy new image, and the Butterfly album.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 13 more reviews...
 I've always admired mariah August 10, 2005
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've always admired mariah's music talent as a whole and remember reading this book 5 years ago from the school library and learned more about how she puts together songs and how she collaborated with songwriters. I think this book is a useful tool for those who wonder what it takes to get into the music industry, pre-american idol and reality show days.
Yippee June 3, 2003
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
When i think of Mariah, I heer the bells in my head. She ain't foolin around when she says I gott get some love. Yea, she is the top and the book will tell you that. I love to chew some good gum when I read about her. She make me want to pop my gum.
 mariah carey February 13, 2001
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
If you have read his first book about mariah it is basically the same until the last few pages. But still a great book for dedicated Mariah fans like me!
A Nice Enough "Bio Lite" of Pop Superstar, Mariah Carey November 11, 2000
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
Chris Nickson was one of the first- certainly not THE first author-to get involved in celebrity bios "lite". These are books about very high-profile celebrities, based almost exclusively on press accounts, some transcripts and other information they manage to collect about a celebrity. Most people buy these books- including Nickson's Carey tome- expecting a detailed, behind-the-scenes look at the star's rise to the top. If the book revealed hidden secrets or other negative things about the star and their climb, don't you think it would have been front-page fodder for the tabloids? This is a very nice, and relatively detailed book on Mariah's career. It is 192 pages, so you know it cannot be incredibly detailed, but it does delve into her childhood somewhat, and even into the years-or rather the 'lean year' before her discovery by Mottola. If you are a die-hard Mariah fan and own all of the magazine stories on her, have taped all her concerts and own all of her CD's and singles (let me put it this way, if you know she is the first and only female artist to have debuted at number one in the billboard hot 100, the first to do so three times, the only female artist with 15 chart-topping singles (behind only Elvis and the Beatles), the female artist with more weeks (62) at the top (behind Elvis only), with more platinum and gold singles, with more albums sold (128 million) throughout the world, with 84 gold and platinum records, with two diamond albums, and the only female artists with 8 studio albums certified 4 times platinum or better, if you know her stunning debut spent 22 weeks at the top, that Daydream was, before the Soundscan era and Britney, the biggest-selling (in one week, with 765,000 copies) album, that "Music Box" became the bestselling record ever by a female artist (with over 24 million copies sold right now worldwide, Daydream has sold 21 million, Mariah Carey 13, and even her Christmas Album, which has become a classic album and reached number three on the Billboard 200 sold 8 million copies) if you know all this, you probably will not learn anything new from the book. But it is enjoyable to see Nickson recreate her life from infancy, to marriage, to independent adulthood, while he review her albums and explains how they were put together, and even re-constructs the exciting release of her stunning debut album. Nickson's is a fine piece of nonfiction, and most fans, even those who know EVERYTHING about Mariah and will find nothing new in the book, will enjoy seeing her beautifully charmed life (and VERY productive (and blessed) career), put into perspective.
 Not the best information April 18, 2000
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
This book is almost an exact replica of the previous book by Chris Nickson "Mariah Carey- her story". There was very little new information. Plus, most of his research is just magazine articles that most die-hard fans (like me) already own. There weren't any exclusive pictures, no actual quotes from Mariah about the book, nothing that made it any more spectacular than a scrapbook made by a fan (which would have probably been more interesting). This book is better for someone who is not a huge fan, but would like to learn some things about her and her life. I think many fans who have been loyal from day one could have gotten together to write a better book.
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