"Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography" by Andrew Morton

Regardless of whether you love or hate him, chances are that you know of Tom Cruise, who he is, what he does, and most importantly, what his views are on various existential questions, such as which religion to follow for example. 

However, most of us have never taken the time to really look at the man behind the screen, mostly because we have our own lives to worry about. Nevertheless, if you put aside the fact that Cruise took some big risks in his career which have earned him three Academy Awards as well as numerous Golden Globe nominations, then his life starts to get just a bit weird.

For starters, it is no secret at this point that Tom Cruise is a highly-devoted Scientologist, but many aren’t really alarmed by that, probably because they don’t really know that much about Scientology. 

It spreads the belief that life began from an alien overlord by the name of Xenu… which for some reason sounds like it came from the English language (not to mention it’s awfully close to Xena, The Warrior Princess, whatever that suggests).

In any case, regardless of what Scientology is or how he became affiliated with it, shades of the real Tom Cruise began to surface in his infamous moment on Oprah where he declared his love for Katie Holmes. In the same breath, he was bashing Brooke Shields for turning to the “Nazi science” of psychiatry. 

I don’t know what makes psychiatry a Nazi science, or what makes anything a Nazi science for that matter… but it seems Tom Cruise has a pretty solid grasp on such things, which isn’t that surprising when you think about it some.

In any case, if you want to look into Tom Cruise’s life and see the real anti-Nazi scientologist who hides behind the pretty boy who broke the bank with Top Gun and Rain Man, then you should definitely have a look at Andrew Morton’s book titled Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography.

As you can guess, that book basically talks about that other side of Cruise’s life, the side he doesn’t show. While the things this book has to offer are interested to a certain extent, you should definitely take them with a grain of salt; there is more speculation than proof here... some of it is certainly fiction. 

Nevertheless, it still makes for a fun read if you are willing to pretend that everything you read in there is true, in which case you will be reading the story of a crazy Scientologist who desperately tries to understand the world.

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Andrew Morton Andrew Morton is a journalist of English origin as well as a writer who seems to have specialized his works around biographies, having already written ones surrounding the late princess Diana, as well some of the more interesting celebrities such as Tom Cruise and Angelina Jolie, though it ought to be noted that several of his books have contested statements and assertions in them.