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Summary: MIND BOGGLING!
Review: MAKES YOU WONDER IF THIS COULD ACTUALLY BE TRUE. IT'S A QUICK READ. FASCINATING STORY. HEART GOES OUT TO BOTH ROSIE AND THE MUTLI PERSONALITY LADY.
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Summary: Will the Real Rosie Please Stand UP??
Review: Wow, this is a challenging book to read because it shows the vulnerabilities of the talkshow host/personality Rosie O'Donnell and hints at some of the deep impact that childhood wounds can have on adults at any age. Part memoir and part narrative about a relationship she creates with a caller, it is odd and quirky and at times irresistable. Is she naive? Is she lonely? Is she nutz? Rosie has brought much happiness and fun to viewer's lives, the show ended in controversy as did the magazine she headed but we know there's more to come from this vibrant comedienne who love to share. What makes the book so fascinating is the ability to peek behind the screen/curtain and see what Rosie's family life was like and how it has and continues to affect her every day. I have the feeling we still haven't seen the real Rosie-- the mature woman who has made peace with the past and is glad to share the present.
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Summary: Touching and inspirational!
Review: I absolutely loved this book. It shows another Rosie that you have never seen- a Rosie in the shadows that tries to conceal her problems and worries with a happy, hearty public image. You see the pain that she suffered growing up without her mother, and the pain that she went through when her mother was dying. She has an intense fear of breast cancer because of this incident. This story is touching, becuase it shows that a person who looks so confident on the outside is really vulnerable and worried on the inside. It tells of her hopes and fears. It tells of how and why she became of comedian. It says that she did not like her wealthy and fake life. It shows of her immense love for people and for children. It shows her great love for her own children. It is an inspirational short read, and I suggest it to anyone with an open mind.
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Summary: Rosie lets us inside her world
Review: I have to say that the minute I opened this book, I was hooked. Although I was in my senior year of high school, and had class all day, the first day this book came out in May of 2002, I hid it within my textbooks and read the book all day. I finished it before I went home and even began rereading it then. This book touched so many parts of my emotional skeleton that I never knew I had. I found it entirely relateable and opened, to the fans of Miss O'Donnell, just enough of the window into her incredible life and road to the life she now has. Although vague at times, I feel it touched on everything just perfectly, never going into anything too much. I suggest this book to anyone, even if you could care less about Rosie, as it is more of a mystery you can't wait to solve, than a normal "star autobiography". A must read.
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Summary: A bit disappointing
Review: Rosie O'Donnell has chosen a fairly unique approach in writing this autobiography. Instead of giving a chronological account of her life, as most biographers would, she uses an internet relationship as the framework from which the rest of the story unfolds. Through this relationship we see how Rosie thinks and feels, the types of things she does, some of her dreams, we learn a bit about her children and also some of the things that have happened in her life. However, I found the path that her internet relationship took to be predictable, and the details of her "inner world" were too few to compensate for the lack of concrete facts and events that make up her life.I give her credit for writing this book entirely on her own, as so many celebrities use writers to help put their stories together. But had she taken a more conventional approach her story may have been a bit longer and more substantive.
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Summary: I thought this was an autobiography????
Review: Sorry to say, but I didn't like this book. Very boring read. I love Rosie and wanted to know more about her life and what made her who she is today. This book rarely dishes on that. It is mostly about a girl that she is obsessed with talking to and helping. I didn't give a hoot about some strange girl and their phone conversations. Wouldn't recommend this book to anyone. Was actually embarrassed that I bought it after I read it. Rosie...please do a real autobiography!
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Summary: Best Book I've Read
Review: This is one of the best books I've ever read. Truly touching and inspiring!
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Summary: Rare Commodity - An Emotionally Honest and Brave Woman
Review: While she may not be the most emotionally independent women, much of Rosie's success is that she has always been - all woman - by virtue of the fact that she is not only willing, but shameless, of revealing the emotional honesty that exists so rarely in the revelations of women today. Her bold approach enables women everywhere to idolize her courage, her honesty, and the unusual perspective of a woman willing to be herself, come hell or high water. Sensitive to her environment but willing to chance the high level scrutiny that can arise from her vulnerabilities, she boldly marches on building her own fanfare from empowering other women to be themselves in celebration of their intelligence, their intuition, and their life experience. A tough woman, beloved, and original to those who can appreciate her rare qualities, unsubdued and unapologetic. A model of intellectual liberation of great consequence; a real treat for other women!
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Summary: Amazingly Thoughtful and Provocative
Review: This book, although it encompassed a mere three hours of my life, was highly profound and insightful. Rosie is engaging and witty (as usual) and writes with such amazing candor and beauty. The beauty is born out of the simplicity with which she writes. The reader is allowed to become captivated by the story (and anecdotes), instead of becoming caught up in the language and prose of the novel. The frank nature with which Rosie writes makes it seem as though she is speaking to the reader directly... I was remarkably moved and touched by the book, and found it to be highly thoughtful and provocative. Rosie's aching and longing echoes the human condition, and her ability to rise above the anguish to confront what she fears the most (herself, and the expression of her parts) is truly revealing. I was enthralled, and would recommend this to anyone... it takes so little time to read, and yet is so well worth it. I'm definitely thankful.
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Summary: bizarre
Review: As I listened to this book on tape recently, I just kept thinking, 'how depressing', 'how negative', 'how cynically she looks at the world'. Yet, I couldn't stop listening, surely there must be something uplifting, somewhere in her life. Rosie has clearly had many personal tragedies in her life, that she has yet to overcome. Maybe one day she will turn her obsession to help on herself, and truly help those closest to her.
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