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I am a huge Christy Canyon fan and was hoping that what I'd find in her book was that she really enjoyed being a sex star. I wanted to hear that she loved the adult world and her fans and was glad to meet them every time she was performing.

Instead, her real story is one of abuse that drove her from her home to a life she feels is unsatisfying. She is not a particular fan of the adult industry, even though she became one of it biggest stars, and was anxious to leave it as soon as she could find an alternative.

If you want to remain a Canyon fan then don't read this book. If you do, you won't be able to watch her films or see her pictures in the same way again.

Let me just say that I enjoyed the book tremendously. It was very well written, and above all it was very sincere. That last part tends to be very uncommon among biographies, but you were not afraid to admit things that were hurtful as well as things that were probably very foolish. And whether you personally regret them or not, you were not shy about it.
I was able to personally relate to the book, and thats probably why I liked it the most. My life early life happened to be very similar to yours even though I grew up on the other side of the Atlantic. All of a sudden I realized that what was true there was true here. I was able to relate to certain emotions displayed in your book, especially as a kid. Being split between parents, and dealing with their spouses was not always an easy task. I think striving for attention, and doing really foolish and stupid things. At the time I felt very bad. I was thinking I was the only person in the world it was happening to. And I was doing very bad things, and I felt I was never going to be anybody in life. At least my immediate surrounding made me feel like that. I think I was able to spot that in your book too. I found that to be very in common. I was thinking that if I knew you in school we probably would become friends. Of course if we knew about all of these things that we find in common. I think at the time I needed to know someone who felt this way. Just to know how to take it all inside, how to deal with it. I wonder if you felt the same way growing up? When I read your book I felt that I wasnt all alone in this. That along the lines many people were facing similar traumas, and not really knowing how to relate to it. I remember once I met a girl who also went through similar ordeal. I remember talking with her late night after work (haha-we worked at Kmart) I remember her telling me how she felt about her religion class as a child. They tell you how everything should be, rosy and all, and then you come home and its the complete opposite. Did you ever feel like that? I really liked that girl at the time and hearing these things from her was like a revelation to me. It was like Im not alone..etc. I think similar emotions came over me when reading your book. I felt your sadness, but I also felt your happiness.
After reading this book I just feel like I know you more on the personal level. I know what went inside your head, and observed your thinking patterns. Youre no longer a girl with beautiful body I happened to see as a late teenager. I think there is a lot of beauty inside you as well. I wonder to myself how I would react if I saw any of your movies now?
On the other hand, I enjoyed your descriptions of the industry, most of it was really revealed to me for the first time. The fact that youve enjoyed your career was very positive. At least you didnt feel miserable like you did as a child. What an intense way to rebel. Ive done quite a few rebelling acts myself. Most of which Im not proud of, and probably should be left unspoken. In doing so, you are probably considered a legend, but you didnt loose your human factor. I really like that aspect about you. Youre still approachable. I mean, even when you responded to my e-mail, that says a lot. When I read the book, I wish I couldve written additional questions that popped in my head regarding some of the events. If you were to answer them all it probably could turn into an interview book.
I found quite few things being very funny, and I did laugh a lot. Especially some dealing with men that you described were hilarious. Being a man myself I wondered how I would react in such situation because you cant help to think that. But, I cant help to see the difference in styles. You know like you read something, and just say thats not me, or the opposite as well. Well, life situations tend to be awkward and funny, that is why Seinfeld was so authentic and funny. Youve quite a few of such moments. I think the funniest was the incident with the picture some guy sent it to you, and you gave it to that crazy woman on the street. I had a real laugh at that, very creative on your part, and unpredictable too.
One thing which for sure is great is when you look back at you life, and consider how many things have happened. Thats absolutely outstanding. You were able to make it into a book. And probably still have enough memories for a follow up or two. Being able to capture it in a fair, and not overly critical lightthats art.

As a fan of christy during the 80's and 90's, i enjoyed the book very much. My title explains just that, she can't disclose everything ? Any time someone of her stature and position, i think has the right to write want she/he wants to. I think she is going to write a second volume which is well worth the wait. I just plain out enjoyed her book. I think if she wrote about everything from day one till, when ever, she would have lost the reader ? You can only write about sex so much that it gets redudant. I highly recomend this book for all that enjoyed the ground breaking vhs era of the 80's ( adult video 0 and to all of Chrity's fans...a must read...

Scarlett O'Hara is one of the few protagonists who is completely unlikable but incredibly compelling. Christy Canyon is a whining brat who insults others' appearances in order to build herself up and seems completely clueless on WHY her family and friends react to her life choices.

She goes on to say that she had no other choice to survive, but it's so hard to believe. Especially when she cries over and over again that it was the lack of paternal attention that drove her to her lifestyle. Okay, so you learned you can't count on your dad. All her musings are completely superficial, and she never goes on to say HOW her upbringing affected her choices and mindset.

No interesting inside information of the industry whatsoever and it feels like she transcribed her diary word for word. Especially since she introduces characters for the first time as if the reader had already known who they were from the get go.

If you're a fan of her movies, skim through for the sexual memories. If you're a fan of literature and memoirs, skip it.

One must admire the self publisher; a writer who receives countless "no thank you"s from publishing companies but still believes her manuscript is worth reading by anyone but her family.

It is not difficult to understand why there are so many mixed reviews of Christy Canyon's autobiography. But the majority of the less-than-stellar reviews are made by readers who really missed the point of the book. These reviews are largely based on superficial shortcomings which include typos and the lack of titilating material. But we all know that including such content would be an easy way out for the author. This is the author's perspective of her own life in her own words. The typos come with the perk of reading Christy's work in her own words and this makes the content all the more geniune and substantive. If this book wasn't self-published then Christy wouldn't even have the option of choosing its title.

Naturally, an autobiography will be colored by the author's perspective on her own experiences. This is inevitable. But if you can identify with some of these experiences (I know there are many readers with dysfunctional families and bad relationships) you'll definitely find this book an enjoyable read.

In a way, I always thought that authors who write about Reagan have it easy. How hard could it be to write interesting and inspiring words about a man who was both?

However, the author of this book has taken a bit of a different approach with this book by focusing as much on the "Reagan movenment" as he does Reagan himself.

History is going to be very good to Reagan and it will be because of the movement he created - it spite of the spineless Republicans of today.

I really enjoyed reading the book. It flows easily through the Reagan years and, if you are a Reagan fan, you will close this book, sigh, and say, "God I miss Ronald Reagan!"

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Very informative. This book will give you a new appreciation for our recent history.

D'Souza does a decent job in his biography on the character of Reagan. My biggest complaint with this book is that it does not actually tell us anything about Reagan and his presidency. So much times is spent on the character that by the time you are done understanding Reagan's moral values the book is over and I felt I learned nothing about what Reagan did and how these values played out. For those who have really studied Reagan it is a great addition but if you are looking for only one book try Richard Reeves.

Most biographers who attempt to write about Ronald Reagan typically get frustrated at some point in their effort and throw up their hands saying, "I can't get to know this man!" Indeed, the man that some many of us felt close to without ever having met him was apparently a very tough nut to crack if you wanted to get close to him in person.

As a result, many biographies supposedly about Reagan offer very little insight into the man and what made him succeed and fail. They talk about his life and history, his advisers and their ideas, but they don't capture anything about the man that you wanted to learn about when you picked up the book in the first place - D'Souza does and that's what makes this book different and better from the rest.

D'Souza was a young aid in the Reagan White House and maybe that gives him a bit of an advantage in capturing the essence of Reagan, but I think most of the credit has to go to something far more fundamental; D'Souza hasn't lost the ability to see Reagan the way most Americans saw him, he hasn't lost sight of what America was like before Reagan compared to what it's like now. That gives D'Souza a perspective on Reagan that most academics (which D'Souza is) neglect. It makes all the difference in this book.

D'Souza really captures a man guided by a vision and a philosophy rather than by polls, a real leader rather than someone who went whichever way popular sentiment carried him. Reagan's ideas about America and its relationship to the rest of the world were positive, contrary to popular thoughts and, as it turns out, right.

If you like Reagan, you will love the way D'Souza articulates how the man accomplished everything he did. If you don't like Reagan, D'Souza's look at Reagan offers the best argument I've encountered that you'll have to counter in order to sway his supporters to your way of thinking.

Highly recommended. A great book about a great President.

This book was a dreadful read, confusing, bias and with no cited sources to back up startling allegations. I was disappointed and turned off!

If you are a Anna Nicole Smith fan this is a book for you. I read the book in one sitting. This is a book that you can't put down. You will definitely enjoy it. It's worth the money

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I am a firm believer that Larry Birkhead is a good Dad to this baby.
I somehow have doubts in the "sex act" that supposedly took place with Larry and Howard. The obvious disdain that the two men have/had for one another make this unbelievable.
I believe it to be true that Howard is sneaky, dangerous man who liked to control and manipulate, and not to be trusted. He very well could have been the one to take the lives of Daniel and Ana Nichole. Sad for this baby who now has no Mother to grow up with, nor Brother.
Sad Book, Too bad they could not have had the intervention that they needed to save their lives.
I think Rita did a good job writing this book. It does hold the readers interest, and moves pretty smoothly and quickly.

You know I really don't follow any of the tabloids or the television shows devoted to celebrity culture, but when I saw Rita Crosby interviewed on Fox I thought I'd give Blond Ambition a leafing. Somewhat comically, the anchor said to Crosby during the segment, "I saw the title and thought it was about you." In a way he was right because this is a most subjective account of Anna Nicole Smith and her death. I usually don't mention much about an author's style as I'm no Hemingway myself, but I found the writing here to be quite poor. It was a brief text but I kept putting it down due to how ponderous it was. I don't see Smith as having been a bad person so much as I consider her as an individual who could not control her impulses. Oh, I do think that charade with Mr. Marshall was reprehensible but I would never expect honor from a Hollywood star.

The narrator seems to have a high amount of respect for Smith which amazed me. The corresponding vilification of Howard K. Stern and Larry Birkhead also made no sense. Personally, I would not want to associate with either of those two guys, but they strike me as being no different in their qualities from Smith. They are scammers and societal free-riders who associate who other scammers and societal free-riders. Isn't this to be anticipated? Should this discombobulate us? Further, Crosby's take on her subject's addictions was absurd. She blamed Stern for the drugs Smith did which is fallacious. Smith was an independent, autonomous human being who was responsible for her own actions. Even if Stern obtained them for her (and whether he did or not I have no way of knowing) she still had a choice before taking them. Being addicted to a substance is both debilitating and a challenge, but even low will-power fellows like me managed to quit smoking. It was not easy but preserving your life is worth the suffering it entails. Of course, survival was a priority for me, but, as we see here, it isn't for everyone. The thing that puzzles me most is why anybody admires celebrities in the first place. I'd be no more likely to look up to them than I would a grouper or a mockingbird. I'll never comprehend the allure these rich folks have but this book will not add to anyone else's collective understanding of that phenomenon either.

Michael Palin writes as he speaks, without pretension, and with a great deal of humor. These are his diaries, not initially meant for publication and thus full of honest, blunt observations regarding films, books, his own performances and the foibles of his fellow Pythons. Nobody escapes unscathed here, though I doubt anyone that Mr. Palin wrote about would dispute his conclusions.

The years 1969-1979 are some of the most amazing in Python history; they begin as the Monty Python starts filming its first television series, and concludes as Life of Brian is released and there is backlash from the religious folks who don't understand the premise (and many of whom proudly state that they haven't even bothered to see the film they're condemning). Between these two seminal events are discussions of filming on other projects, the need and the attempt to write, and a man's deep and abiding love for his wife, children and parents. Reading the passages about Palin's father weakening was moving in the extreme, and his pain was palpable as the roles between father and son slowly reverse themselves.

This is a hernia farm of a book at over 600 pages hardcover, exclusive of introductions and index, but you soon forget your aching arms as the pages fly. The life that Michael Palin has built for himself and his family is so layered, rich and interesting (while still being fairly "normal") that you only want the best for him and can't wait to read what happens next. I understand that the next segment of diaries will be released in September 2009, and I'm very excited to read about that next decade in my favorite Python's life.

Despite copious footnotes explaining the backgrounds of the people mentioned, those who are not familiar with British comedy and culture may find the narrative a little hard to follow, at least initially. Because I've been living in London for a year or so, the people that Palin encounters (and then writes about) have become more familiar to me. Even more interesting were his mentions of favorite bookshops, restaurants and London haunts which he enjoyed with his children (and, in some cases, continues to enjoy to this day). In that respect, the Diaries became a bit of a travelogue for my future travels around my new hometown.

Short, terse, but enjoyable odyssey through some of the most transformative years of the life of Michael Palin; who just happened to be one of the core members of a silly group of brits which changed the course of comedy.
Silly is the word. Palin's the name.

I have been a fan of Python for years, so I was delighted to learn of this book. I truly enjoyed it. It was very entertaining to read of the beginnings of Python, and the stories of Palin's other projects were also well told. His entries about his family made him seem accessible. He definitely tried to balance his family life with his professional career that became more successful as the years went by.

Like so many others, I was, am, and forever will be thrilled, inspired, and utterly in love with the wonderfully weird magic that is "Monty Pythons Flying Circus". The quirky and altogether strange world of the Pythons have provided me with many laugh induced bellyaches and watery eyes. It was, in a word, brilliant.

And, although I'm not happy about 'taking sides', as it were, I guess Michael Palin has always been my favourite. So it was a great pleasure to find this book on the shelf at my local bookpusher.

In it, Palin gives a very interesting, very candid, and (critically) not silly view of the lives and times of the Python group. We get a fine description of the other members of the group as well as Palins family, a subject not often explored. One of the marvelous aspects of this volume is, that while it describes the 'Python Years", it dosen't hang on the 'normal' points of interest that every other book and interview about the pythons, to this day, seems to find so absolutely necessary to repeat to death. It gives the reader so many apt and recherché descriptions of the small things behind the scene, that it truly ads a new and original dimension to Python legacy. Indeed not a small feat.

Any python fan would appreciate this wonderful book. I'm absolutely sure of it. Highest possible recommendation.

What a fruitful and stimulating period for Michael Palin from 1969 through 1979! The trajectory runs from the young man and his colleagues trying to find their way as barely-known humorists and performers in England to huge worldwide stars with a portfolio that remains strong to this day.

The diary shows a wonderful family man of wit, personality, sensitivity, talent and various other positive attributes. A book with only that would of course be rather dull eventually, and Palin freely admits his errors, worries, and somewhat edgy remarks about others. One can't help but wonder what was trimmed in the massive editing job, whether it was mostly day-to-day stuff or whether we lost some naughty bits and rougher comments. My guess is that we saw enough personality of the author that there was only modest need to excise nasty or regrettable words.

One of the better aspects is, in fact, that Palin paints quite human portraits of the other Pythons, some warts and all. There's John Cleese, often stand-offish and wanting to move on. There's Eric Idle, moody and worried about money. There's Graham Chapman, struggling with booze, and Terry Jones, who is closest to Palin, trying to find his way. Naturally, there are many positive remarks about the boys, too, and I particularly liked the behind-the-scenes stories during the making of the films and their writing sessions. How little money they made! To the Pythons' good fortune, the BBC gave up the non-UK rights to video.

Other highlights were Palin on Saturday Night Live, his first publicity tour to America and the subsequent rise of the Python shows on public TV, the decline and death of his father, and the general realization that he was becoming quite famous and the burden of celebrity was not always welcome. Quite a few famous people appear, with a fine example being George Harrison (a big "Lumberjack Song" fan). Palin is at first intimidated by Harrison, and eventually they became friends. It's a testament to Palin's charm, friendliness and interest in so many subjects (he reads constantly in the diary) that he has countless friends and contacts, and must be an excellent companion.

If you want to dip into the book for a sample, try February, 1975. Palin says, "Good news from New York - Python is top of the PBS Channel 13 ratings" on Feb 4. He complains, "I am so sick of being Python odd-job man, and yet the alternative is to not know what's going on in your name - which is infinitely more dangerous." There are family news, socializing with others, and thoughts of a future project, and on Feb 22, "I suppose this could be said to be the day on which Python finally died."

The author is clearly a pretty smart guy, and some predictions about the future and lamentations about the loss of scale in human development were spot on. I had to smile at one exception, when he thought Keith Richards wouldn't last long. But, hey, that's ok, you were far from alone!

Don't read the book looking to laugh throughout. "Amusing" and "funny" are more appropriate, and I actually laughed rarely. I can't see much of an audience beyond people with a positive view of Python, as the best bits certainly work far better for people with an appreciation of the material and (ideally) a recollection of the 1970s.

This is a wonderfully entertaining and superbly researched biography of a true Hollywood screen legend. Lee Server did a magnificent job and is just fun to read. If you enjoy reading the larger-than-life stories of Hollywood's most notable characters, then this book is for you. Once you read about Ava, you'll be clamoring for Server's book on Robert Mitchum, "Baby, I Don't Care".

Ava G. is truly facinating and this bio tells why. I love it when they come through like this! Highly suggested read, as well as Take Your Shirt Off: A Novel of Hollywood, which I also quite liked. If you're into the whole Hollywood thing, these two books deliver!

Lee Server is a cut above the usual "star" biographer in many ways - he can really write, he makes the most vapid subject interesting, and he can hold the reader's interest throughout. But...does he wear blinders? He reiterates over and over and over and over again how Ava was the most beautiful woman in the world and how EVERYONE loved her. The book is so one-sided as to be a love-letter to Ava herself. I find it difficult to believe with her behavior and lifestyle that there wasn't ONE single person who spoke negatively about her and who intensely disliked her...but you won't find it in this book. It seems the one man who turned her down was Paul Newman and even that episode is wrapped up in one quick sentence and made to seem like something was wrong with him. C'mon Lee...get real and write some of the negative comments about her predatory lifestyle - from the wives/girlfriends/children of marriages/relationships she interferred with. And why didn't Ava, or someone who loved her (Bappie) seek help for her nympho ways because this woman truly had a problem. This wasn't someone just "enjoying" sex...she was disturbed, and Lee Server really doesn't seem to recognize it.

On the plus side - lots of juicy old Hollywood gossip.

Overall this book was revealing, entertaining and hard to put down. There were a few minor points that I thought the book lacked or should have clarified. For example, when Bappie accompanies Ava to Hollywood, Bappie was married to Larry Tarr a New York photographer. However, the book never mentioned what became of Bappie's marriage. Something I thought should have been mentioned since the reader was introduced to Bappie's marriage and then left hanging.
Also, I am not a fan of books that in one Chapter quote people saying, for example, that Ava was still a beautiful woman even in her forties. However, in the next Chapter would be devoted to people quoted as saying Ava was no longer beautiful and that she was old and unappealing. So we have two different versions or opinions concerning Ava at that time and the reader is lost as to which version is real.
Likewise her publicist, David Hanna mused "What friends?" when someone mentioned Ava's friends. However, later there were a number of people referred to as old close friends. Since Hanna was dismissed by Ava, I think this quote of his could be properly cited as a tactless statement made by a bitter man and nothing more.
These are minor points but I think it helps to discuss areas of weakness in a book.

First of all, let me say this is an excellent biography, a superb, superb read--magnificently done. What one comes to doubt is the worthiness of his subject. His subject is Ava Gardner. The first most obvious thing about her was her beauty--and it is a fact--she was one of the most beautiful women to ever star in a Hollywood movie. That much should be given to her, and testaments to her spectacular, disarming beauty are replete throughout the book.
Server excellently sketches us the portrait of this woman, whose persona was quite layered, and rife with contradictions. Ava--what could you say about her? First of all one starts with the physical aspect of her, which made her a veritable screen goddess and international star--and that singular beauty was a significant force in her life for several reasons. It firstly compelled nearly every man she ever knew to want her; and this dazzling beauty seemed to give her a seemingly endless line of credit with men. That is to say she was so beautiful that it allowed her to exhibit darker shades of her personality with impunity, and largely without consequence. She was a woman of extremes, of light and darkness. She was said to be initially shy with people, in that it was difficult for her to wade at first into social interaction--yet when she did gain that initial familiarity, she displayed an easiness of manner, an honesty, a genuineness, a down-to-earth charm that won her the fondness of a great many people. And yet, oftentimes the charm was simply a mood, only skin deep--when the mood would turn, and it inevitably did, she could be cold, callous, rude, brutal and direct if it sought her fancy. She could be tremendously ingratiating, and did not put on airs,--a trait which won her many a friend while filming this movie and that--and yet she was incredibly difficult to work with on the set, hypersensitive to the slightest disturbance, demanding outrageous perks which one would only expect of the most pompous star. Her beauty enabled her to treat men exactly as she pleased, with callousness, neglect, or outright abuse and yet they nearly almost always came back obediently for more, until she tired of them, or more rarely, they would at some point finally reach their threshold for the invective she dealt out.
Server points out that Ava was a flawed person whose belief in love was irreparably damaged from a miserable marriage to bandleader Artie Shaw. Shaw, a cold, arrogant, distant man, saw Gardner as a backwoods, ignorant country girl and despised her for her lack of education and sophistication; his contempt and scorn for her wounded her time and time again, until literally he could no longer endure what he considered her lack of intellect and dull, provincial ways and divorced her; and he seemed to be the one man whom Ava had wanted but ultimately whose approval she never won--an exception which would never be repeated again for the rest of her life. She projected a down-to-earth affability which she could alternate with a detached aloofness, which with her appetite for sex fooled many men into thinking she was in love when in reality she was only passing the time and opting against loneliness. Her beauty, spirit, and aloof detachment made her a positive obsession of Frank Sinatra, her husband in the 50s. At the same time Frank and Ava were possibly the very worst couple of that entire decade. Both suffered as it was from wild mood swings and lacked entirely a quality most people practice in major relationships--the ability to regulate or modify one's speech to a situation. Whenever Frank or Ava were upset, or frustrated or angry or even dissatisfied(which was, admittedly, almost perpetually), they would express their feelings, as they did as a rule to everyone else in their lives, without qualification or filter, profanely, with extreme prejudice. Neither Frank nor Ava ever seemed to be able--nor ever really wanted--to mask what they felt to anyone in particular; they were never able to hold back in their dealings with anyone, and this rule held true for their marriage as well. The fact that Ava and Frank were both by this time alcoholics--Ava especially--and inveterate social animals accustomed to going out on the town every night only fueled the instability and the strife, and they broke up.
Ava stopped working regularly after her breakup with Sinatra and her life completely disintegrated into a restless jaunt around the globe of drinking, parties and sex. Server relates that Ava was a person who could act at times with a chilling, ruthless selfishness--she had two abortions in her life, one Sinatra's child and the other possibly Sinatra's but possibly one of the many lovers she took while filming "Mogambo" . This is heartrending in itself, but because of her breakups with Sinatra and Shaw, she came to believe that true love would never happen again to her and that love itself even was not desirable; she had no husband in the second half of her life and virtually no family at all besides her sister, and moreover, no children, since she had aborted all of her pregnancies--and this was an equation for a life essentially of emptiness and loneliness, and though Ava gamely tried to fill it with parties and casual lovers, her life for the most part became as much. Server is outstanding and thorough in his treatment of his subject; the freshness and verve of his writing convey to us the allure and mystique of his charismatic subject; and we are no different than the rest; in reading his work we fall in love with her too, and ultimately we pity her for a life of glamour and fame but also of tragic choices that ultimately did not serve her well in the end.

I bought this book and read it in one setting. There are a few stories told here that I didn't know about, and he does seem to take golf very seriously. I myself detest golf but I must admit Alice is very persuasive. The style of writing utilized here is very difficult to resist and I found the book difficult to set down.
There are a few parts in the book where Alice discuses his religious faith, but he's not pushy with it. There are some genuinely funny stories relayed in the book and he does cover a few of the lesser known events of his career.
Overall I would recommend this to anyone with an interest in classic rock. I'm not a big golf person and would not know how good his golf tips are.

Lance was always my favorite back in the day when I loved NSync. I was really excited to find out he had written a book. I still remember the day in the Orlando airport I saw the magazine cover of him coming out. I ran right out to get this book. It is a very quick read at a mere 180 pages. I have to say, as much as I love Lance, I didn't really care for the book. I was disappointed in the length, lack of depth, and overall tone. I didn't expect lurid details, nor did I want them, but it just all seemed so superficial and fake. I wouldn't say Lance sold out, but the book does not really represent him very well. I loved the background stories of his family, growing up...but the rest of the book pretty much pertained to the troubles with their manager and the cosmonaut training. I just felt that it was overkill. The major events in Lance's life (besides Nsync and NASA) were brushed over in a paragraph or two...probably due to the short number of pages. I just didn't feel that I got to "know" Lance any better after reading this. I was just disappointed with it and glad I finished it in a day. I highly recommend that you save your money and borrow it from the library. I wish Lance the best of luck in all his future endeavors, but I would have to tell him not to hold his breath for an Nsync reunion. Trust in your self and your faith will take you far. After all, hard things are put in our way, not to stop us, but to call out our courage and strength.

I must say thank you, thank you, thank you Lance Bass for this fantastic read. Allowing us insight to your world is greatly appreciated. Not once was I bored with this thoughtful book. From start to finish Lance kept me interested and inspired.

I received this book as a gag gift and read it purely to out-gag my friends (because who really uses gag gifts?). Knowing the book hasn't sold well, I dove into my reading with low expectations. It's possible that I enjoyed the book merely because I wasn't expecting much. Overall I felt that the writing was a bit juvenile, but it was a quick and easy read not without insight. It was interesting to get some perspective on the world of pop stardom- in the midst of teenage obsession it's easy to forget that the objects of one's affection are actual people with actual feelings and emotions. And while pop stars are somehow different from we normal folk, there were some parts of Lance's story that seemed so totally normal and down-to-earth as to make it impossible to ignore the fact that he, too, is human.

I have to agree with other reviewers that I was expecting to read more about Lance being gay and coming out. On the other hand, perhaps it provides hope for equality in society if he can present his coming out and dating life as merely part of his story rather than the whole piece of it.

As a side note, I saw Lance on a float in Mardi Gras. I yelled "I read your book!" in the hopes that that would give him incentive to throw me some beads; alas, it was not to be. So Lance, if you happen to read this... could you throw me something, mister?

If you like Lance Bass, you will like him even more after reading this book. A refreshing, straight forward memoir of a young man confronting his sexuality. Well written, almost like sitting next to Lance while he tells you about his life up until now.

If you read the review titled "Good Little Read" from October 2007, that pretty much says exactly what I would. Short book, didn't say a lot, kept it clean, didn't provide a lot of details, etc.

I was surprised how short the book is. I got it out of the library Friday evening and finished it in a one and a half days-probably could have finished it less if I hadn't of been working. I thought that this book shouldn't have even been a hardbound, it should have been a supermarket paperback sold at the checkstand. Geez, anybody who pays $25 for this is spending a lot.

I hope he uses his money well, as he will most likely fade into the past and find a second occupation as SO many stars have since the Golden Age of Hollywood and the Big Band era. No different now, except this generation seems to get screwed up easier. Hopefully Lance won't fall into that pit.

My son requested this book (bonus enough he ASKED for a BOOK!) :) for Christmas, & he was ecstatic to get it! He's really enjoyed reading it & says to please tell you it is an honor to read about a real life American hero in his own words, & is (he told me to capitalize this) CHUCK NORRIS APPROVED! WE LOVE CHUCK!!!

This book is very inspirational, easy to read, full of Chuck Norris pictures through his career. a very interesting story. I'll recommended.

I bought this book for my wife for Christmas. She is a fan of Chuck. She finished the book in a matter of days and gave it to me to read. I'm glad I did. Learned tons of things I never knew about him. I would recommend this book even if you are not a big fan because it tells a good rags to riches story.

I gave this book to my adult son when he achieved his black belt in karate. He found it very inspiring and hard to put down! He has suggested that I read it which I will.

Chuck Norris is undoubtedly a stright shooter of high moral character.
It would have been more interesting if he had gone into more detail about his life from childhood to when he started with the martial arts. Bottom line, I did enjoy the book.

Lewis Black is at his very best. Truly, "nothing is sacred" from Lew's uniquely hilarious brand of critique. I found my self laughing out-loud at portions of the book. Lew also shows his softer side when writing about his late brother, Ron. Overall, a tremendous read. I would highly recommend. It's kind of a "Chicken Soup for the Thinking Person's Soul."

Mr. Black mixes the story of his childhood through college years with his classic rants on everyday subject. He has lived an interesting life coming from the suburbs of Washington D.C. I learned a lot about the man behind the yelling and had a few laughs on the way. If you want to know more about Lewis Black, this is the book to buy.

In a Lewis Black style rant......

OF COURSE ITS NOT WHAT MOST PEOPLE EXPECT!
This book is more of his own autobiography, not so much a comedic book. The thing is that his autobiography just happens to BE comedic. Since alot of his views and routines are based on his own past experiences, of course certain things will overlapped. If you specifically want comedic books - I suggest George Carlin's Brain Droppings, Napalm and Silly Putty, and When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops... But then again, the negative reviewers here probably won't like them either because they're "recycled content".

Jon Stewart (The Daily Show) said it best. "...he yells in print!".
A quick and entertaining read.

Well Done! This book had people in airports staring at me, wondering why I was laughing histerically!