James Dean: "Dream As If You'll Live Forever"
Author: Karen Clemens Warrick
Summary: The true story of rebellious and ill-fated movie star James Dean
Personal thoughts about the book: I remember seeing Rebel Without a Cause for the first time when I was in college and very much liked it. Years later I saw the movie again and was curious about what the ill-fated movie star's life really was like. So after reading this book, I got the impression that his rebellious and sulky attitude towards directors and cast members came from 2 incidents: 1) James terribly missed his mother, who died of cervical cancer when he was little. 2) He never felt truly loved or cared for by his father.
If his life wasn't cut short due to a severe car crash, I wonder what more he could've done in his life besides only 3 successful films. Quite sad.
Rating on a scale of 1 to 10: 10
-Jessi :)
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