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Summary: entertaining for a chapter or two, BUT...
Review: I have sarcoidosis, too, and kept waiting for the page she'd finally shut up about herself and make a difference by informing people about the disease. The writing is good and funny but there's so little substance I wondered, "Don't people have better, more important things to do with their time than read this?!"
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Summary: A laugh-out loud inspiration
Review: What a wonderful book! I picked it up because I'm an oncology nurse and am always interested in seeing how people cope with life-threatening illness. Karen Duffy's book is both highly entertaining (downright hilarious at times)and a great inspiration to the power of positive thinking and making lemonade out of lemons. Some of her coping mechanisms are not what we normally recommend to our patients but it works for her and it's a perfectly valid way to go. I would recommend this to all my patients who are not too uptight or easily offended (sex,drugs and rock-and-roll).
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Summary: good reading for anyone with a chronic illness
Review: I too suffer from a chronic illness and found her struggle similar to my own. Not too sappy or religous or inspirational. Just down to earth tools a person can use in a day to day fight with chronic pain.
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Summary: This is a keeper
Review: I was moved to have heard about Karen Duffy's illness on talk shows. I have always admired her sense of humor, but not as much as I admire her courage and strength. This is a wonderful uplifting and insightful look at illness and the importance of the ability to laugh in the face of doom and to drop your drawers and moon fate. High five Ms. Duffy.
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Summary: Very helpful and informative
Review: Funny, informative. Great book for anyone experiencing Sarcoidosis (or any rare disease). Sounds like a real person.
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Summary: A huge waste of time and money
Review: I guess you either love it or hate it. I hated it. I'll stick with any book to the end, even if I'm only hoping it'll get better. I could only torture myself through half of this book before calling it quits. It's nothing more than a pile of name dropping and me, me, and more me. Even the disease itself is trivialized in this presentation. Her first symptom was that her head felt like it was exploding. But why doesn't she see a doctor? Because she has a star-studded date to go to the star-studded awards show. Later, fly to NY, see doctor about unimagineable pain in head, and then it's more off-to-here and off-to-there with You-Know-Who and You-Know-Who-Else and He-gave-me-this and Another-He-gave-me-that. I know it was supposed to be light reading, but there was absolutely nothing to it, no insight to anything. Annoying really describes it best for me.
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Summary: funny and serious
Review: I have the same illness that karen duffy writes about. I loved the book because she made the story about her, as a whole person, not about an illness defining a life. She is a combination of goof, hedonist, ardent Catholic, show-biz self-promoter, volunteer, wife, and friend, and all those elements come through. she also has a great sense of humor and a genuine sense of the value of living a life to be proud of. i highly recommend this.
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Summary: I'm loved it and I'm only 17!
Review: People tell me all the time that I haven't lived yet, that I still have a lot to experience. Karen Duffy and her book showed me a excerpt of what life can end up to be. The reason I'm telling you my age is because when you are 17 you have so many dreams. Mostly to be famous. You want to live the life that you see on t.v. You want to wine and dine with the rich and fabulous, yet it never occurs to you that something like what happen Duffy can happen. Yet what I found remarkable was that she still found humor in her situation and still pushed on. When I read this book I fell in love with Karen Duffy personality and I now one of my dreams is to meet her. I promise you, you will laugh you "wisea__" off.
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Summary: BORING! NO SOUL! GIVE MONEY TO A LEGITIMATE FOUNDATION!
Review: Material girl gets sick, manipulates sickness for fame, writes book to buy more materials.Perhaps she should just GO AWAY!
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Summary: Couldn't put it down
Review: This is a quick read, but it's also thought-provoking and fun. You really get to know Duff: You can't help but get caught up in the tales of her celeb encounters and fabulous lifestyle, but at the same time, you also hear plenty about how she has dealt with her disease, and that's something that will stay with you for some time. There are real lessons here about how to cope with tragedy and how to live a full life, no matter what your circumstances.
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