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Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Review

Book Review: Marti Rulli and Dennis Davern’s Goodbye Natalie Goodbye Splendour : Julie Arduini: The Surrendered Scribe

The link above is to a site that includes a review also posted at Amazon, but this review is exactly how I had hoped most readers would come away from Goodbye Natalie Goodbye Splendour, with trust that the intention was to expose the truth of Natalie Wood's mysterious death, and hopefully have the truth believed. 

If Dennis and I were out to exploit the story, there is so much we could have embellished. We could have created words or sentences to the argument Dennis overheard, but we stuck to what Dennis remembered and added nothing more. Dennis's polygraph test, despite those who like to diminish the credibility of the certified test we commissioned, was an effort to prove Dennis's account of Natalie's final weekend.

I thank Julie Arduini for this appreciated review.

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8 comments:

  1. DeboraAugust 17, 2011 at 7:57 AM

    Hi Marti,
    I've read your book ( e-version Amazon Kindle for pc ).

    My congratulations for your compelling, detailed and easy writing-for a non English reader like me.
    Sometimes I've felt as if I was on that boat.
    I've died and I'm dying my eyes out scrolling up and down on my notebook for re-reading throughout the chapters, but it's definitely worth it.

    Im also reading e-versions of Finstad's "Natasha", Wagner's "Pieces of my heart" and paper Lambert's "Natalie Wood".

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  2. LylaAugust 17, 2011 at 8:51 AM

    Debora, read Lambert's book first, then Wagner's. You will see how Wagner contradicts nearly everything he told Lambert.

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  3. DeboraAugust 17, 2011 at 9:00 AM

    That's what I'm up to, right after Marti's and Finstad's ( I'm already halfway ), thank you very much for your advice Roz :-)

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  4. LylaAugust 17, 2011 at 9:36 AM

    You are very welcome, Debora.

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  5. Marianne9August 17, 2011 at 2:56 PM

    Wagner's book is a piece of rubbish, not a piece of his heart. The man has lied for 30 years and will continue to lie. He is going to get what's coming.

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  6. AnonymousAugust 19, 2011 at 8:25 PM

    I read some really bad reviews on Lambert's book. Is it really worth the read? Do you guys have other biographies to recommend?

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  7. DeboraAugust 28, 2011 at 11:44 AM

    Hi,
    I'm reading it with great interest and I think it is anyway worth the read. Then I'll swoop on Wagner's self bio.

    Beside Lambert's and those above mentioned, there's Natalie's sister's bio (looking for it too, though it's not easily available in my Country:

    Lana Wood:
    Natalie: A Memoir by Her Sister

    http://www.amazon.com/Natalie-Memoir-Sister-Lana-Wood/dp/0399129030

    regards :-)

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  8. AnonymousAugust 28, 2011 at 3:48 PM

    Thanks, Debora. I'll check them out ;)

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