[.uk] Kylie (ISBN 1861541376)

Great Design, Great Pictures of an International Icon:
When I was 7, I was entranced by the beautiful lady on my TV Screen singing 'The Locomotion'. What happened to her from that point to when I first heard 'Can't Get You Out of My Head' two summers ago was a mystery...until I bought this book. Since releasing 'Fever', I have become a big Kylie fan and bought this book to see what exactly has made her so famous in virtually every other country of the world. Plain and simple, and detailed in this book as well as 'La La La' by William Baker, image had A LOT to do with it. Kylie is a very beautiful woman who is willing to become a blank canvas for her art, thus giving various facets to her pop persona. She is pop princess, avant-garde revivalist, indie paramour, cheesy, classy, showgirl and icon. This book displays pictures from all of these points, flattering and otherwise. The design of this book is also great and I'm sure it will remain a collector's item for Kylie fans in the future.

Personal approach:
This is a fantastic book, showing the many lives of Kylie, the pop princess of the world. This book shows the many periods of Kylie's life. Including photos, paintings, magazine covers, and personal Kylie stuff. All Kylie fans, like me, SHOULD have this book!!!!!!!

Pointless.:
Don't get this book! it's pointless and screams "ego trip" right the way through, what IS the point of Kylie exactly??? what was the point of doing this book??? what WAS Kylie thinking???? it doesn't give you any answers, questions I asked myself when reading it. I thought doing something as self-indulgent as this would be the last thing Ms Minogue would have to do, but it looks like an obvious attempt by Ms minogue to reinstate to the general public (who don't give a damn actually!) her "powerful influence" and importance and significance to society, just in case we might have forgotten....we don't really need any reminding thank you very much Kylie!...Perhaps we did because Kylie's career seemed to be very much down the dumper at this stage.....The book just made me sick! to think lots of trees were cut down to make this!!!!...... It's a sad attempt...Poor old Kylie!....It just makes her look desperate! it's very self-indulgent, personally I found this book rather funny to look at in places just for the incredibly tacky pictures and prose..... and other pointless things that make up the majority of this incredibly tacky thrown together project....at the time I can see why it may have seemed a good idea to Kylie and her team, but in later years I think it will only serve as an embarrasing non-event like most things in her career, even her latest book La La La was better, it had a point to it at least! there's not much contributed by Kylie herself in this book seeing as it's a book centred all around her. It's also rudely (and distastefully!) crude in places, (The picture of kylie sitting on a toilet with her panties around her ankles looking at pictures of male and female genitals!???) something I find a bit of a double standard when fans of Kylie point the finger at Madonna for doing the Sex book (which was miles better by the way! - maybe that's the reason for all the bitchiness????).....This Kylie "Evidence" book is only for the fans! so if you're a fan, spend another ridiculous amount of cash on her to complete your absurd growing collection and only share it with other Kylie fanatics when they come around for tea. You know what they all say about Star Trek fans.

Boring front cover.:
The cover put me off right away, it's very boring. Not alot of thought went into the design of the book. contains many wacky and silly poems about "kylie" for some reason, and hardly any contribution by Kylie. seems like a vanity project took too far. I was relatively a new kylie fan until saw this book, but the pics and writing is off putting, it seems so fake. I wonder how much Kylie payed these people to write such nonsense about her??

Kylie is excellent:
THE... Kylie bible. Need I say more??? This book is excellent. It show cases how great Kylie is and has some great pictures and information about Kylie. Saying that, please don't forget about the La La La book. I personally think that THAT book is much better. Con about this book is the front cover - very boring. A hand going up in the air with a wrist band saying Kylie. Mmmmm... stop and think. But it is pretty rubbish - would you do that if you were an artist and wanted to design a book??? I'll leave you to think. Great book though, despite the horrible front cover.