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Summary: Award winning writing at its best!!!
Review: Funny, tough and tender. A book that is a class act! The true-life story of Jennifer O'Neill is simply magnificent. Hollywood is destined to make this novel into a mini-series or film. This book communicates on the level of deep human feelings, and leaves an unforgettable impact. It is my pleasure to recommend to your attention this book! Jennifer's story shows how the Lord can take a life and change it, mold it, and shape it - into a life that will be a great testimony for Him!
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Summary: An interesting read because she's so screwed up!
Review: Has anyone noticed that most of the rave reviews of this book are by devout Christians?
Now -- For those of us who are NOT religious, O'Neill's book is interesting mainly because this woman is a jaw-dropping psychological mess. I feel truly sorry for her children, since O'Neill is obviously someone who should never have had kids. As another reviewer pointed out, she married every man who showed any interest in her, had as many kids as possible, and immediately dumped them in the care of whoever happened to be handy -- even people who had proven themselves untrustworthy or even criminal! I hope that her born-again Christianity has made her a little bit easier for her family to live with.
I also was a bit disappointed that there were not more pictures of this very beautiful woman -- especially since her looks seem to be her only redeeming quality!
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Summary: An interesting read because she's so screwed up!
Review: Has anyone noticed that most of the rave reviews of this book are by devout Christians?
Now -- For those of us who are NOT religious, O'Neill's book is interesting mainly because this woman is a jaw-dropping psychological mess. I feel truly sorry for her children, since O'Neill is obviously someone who should never have had kids. As another reviewer pointed out, she married every man who showed any interest in her, had as many kids as possible, and immediately dumped them in the care of whoever happened to be handy -- even people who had proven themselves untrustworthy or even criminal! I hope that her born-again Christianity has made her a little bit easier for her family to live with.
I also was a bit disappointed that there were not more pictures of this very beautiful woman -- especially since her looks seem to be her only redeeming quality!
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Summary: I Would Like to Hear the Other Side
Review: I seems strange to me that someone so beautiful, talented, compassionate, understanding, smart, kind, giving, etc., etc. etc., could run thru eight husbands (or was it nine?). I'd like to hear a bit of their side of the story. This can't be as all black and white as it seems.
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Summary: What's wrong with this picture??
Review: I'm stumped. This is undoubtedly one of the most boring books I've ever read. Why did I read it through to the end? I kept thinking surely she'll "get it". Give me a break.... Eight husbands?? Please. Get a grip.
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Summary: Surviving This Book
Review: It is odd to read an autobiography where an author tells so many personal things and still leaves me feeling she's leaving so much out or maybe living in a state of denial. Eight marriages, yet there's more information about her pets than her husbands...but then her relationships with her pets appear to be more profound than with those of humans. Ms. O'Neill comes across as distracted and distant and often unaware--filming "Caravan" in Iran, she blithely states that the entire country was, at the time, addicted to drugs and also that they HATE dogs. Little asides like this were hard to take--an entire country taking in their aging relatives simply to have access to their prescriptions for morphine-based drugs? A country of people that, to a person, HATE dogs. More like a country in which families--extended families--live together as a custom, and a religion (Islam) that regards dogs as dirty (a muslim must wash his hands seven times after touching a dog). Perhaps I'm putting to fine a point on my critique of just a couple of paragraphs, but this kind of misinformation along with O'Neill's other vagaries make me question her editor and her ability for introspection and, truthfully, her intellect. She is very beautiful, and that includes an internal beauty that she exudes...but I don't find her moral convictions totally believable, and I wonder why she leaves out so much about what makes her interesting in the first place--her looks and her modeling and her acting and her many marriages. There is no index to this book, and the only photographs of a woman who was THE spokeswoman for Cover Girl make up for something like thirty years appear on the back of the hardbound edition.
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Summary: The Most Unforgettable Story!!!
Review: It was such a blessing to read about one of the world's most dazzling women Jennifer O'Neill... It's an emotionally charged saga of a life full of glamour, riches and romance, and the search for the one thing that eluded her - a lasting love. She traveled the world, from one exotic spot to another, and went from marriage to marriage until she found true love... In Jesus!! Don't miss this unforgettable story of an equally unforgettable woman. Brimming with splendor, tragedy, and drama, this is the best writting I've ever read!!
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Summary: So much left unsaid
Review: This book is extremely well written and very interesting. Jennifer O'Neill is brutely honest and forth-right - it is truly unbelievable the life that this beautiful woman has endured...but, she has survived because she found The Answer! My only wish is that there had been more pictures, as is usual in an autobiography...however, because of the content there were probably privacy issues at stake.
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Summary: Couldn't put it down!
Review: This book is extremely well written and very interesting. Jennifer O'Neill is brutely honest and forth-right - it is truly unbelievable the life that this beautiful woman has endured...but, she has survived because she found The Answer! My only wish is that there had been more pictures, as is usual in an autobiography...however, because of the content there were probably privacy issues at stake.
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Summary: Stupidity or Monstrosity/Surviving This Book II
Review: This book is good, very readible. Jennifer is gorgeous, talented & has the luck of the stars following her everywhere, BUT . . . gads what a mess of a person psychologically, nothing, I mean nothing is explained for her behavior & [incompetence] especially in regards to her main victims, her children. Didn't many, many miscarriages give her the hint, DON'T HAVE CHILDREN? And in any age & time her disbelief of her daughter's abuse by one of her husbands is a crime alone. And then to send her son by the same abuser to live with him (an admitted felon when she married him) after she was informed what he did to her daughter? And the fact that no one can stand her for long, not her brother, or her first ex-husband and his new wife who tried to help her abused daughter, or anyone? And then to keep having children, throwing them to the current nanny (or whoever) some of which were sexually aggressive towards Jennifer herself? And to marry one after the other every time her hormones said GO? If she wasn't so unbelievibly luck, (not accounting for her beauty, lots of us are gorgeous but don't have her golden touch) in the real world outside of Hollywood, she would be HOMELESS right now! At the end of the book, she throws herself at yet another man, marries again with little or no investigation, makes him the 8th, thereby victimizing her last son to another 10 years of abuse, and she now claims to know God. What is she leaving out? That she is deaf, dumb & blind? That she has been a total alcoholic for years & years? That she has such an abrasive personality that no one can stand her but animals? Or that she is just plain crazy with a knack for making money every time she turns around? Why doesn't she tell us what really happened? Still, this is an amazing book! It is as entertaining for what is says as for what it doesn't say! Anyone who reads it is going to long toknow the truth. I give her credit for her writing, it's good. I just wonder about WHY? No one who reads this & gets to the end where she claims to have found God and after all that she has done in her past, has not had one day of self reflection or gotten a good psychiatrist with all her money, but just gets "Born Again", "married again" and expects us to believe that she & her minor children are ever going to be all right? I have one guarantee, she will be fine, her children need intervention. Let the horsies have this girl!
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