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Summary: Okay, you're crazy.
Review: Geez. This reads like another badly written abused gal celebrity whine. Not to dismiss the horror of abuse, but have you noticed the disproportionate number of celebrities with bad daddies and loveless homes who love to talk about it? In print? For money? For publicity? I swear there is a template floating around for these bios. YAWN.
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Summary: Call this book poorly written
Review: I have been teaching english for many years now at the University of Maine. This has got to be one of the poorest written books I have had the misfortune to read. I can not belive that it was published. If one of my students would have handed this in I would have given them a F. It is a sad day when a book as tedius to read gets pubished. Anne should be ashamed and embarased, it was clearly a last attempt to hold on to her fastly running out 15 minutes of fame.
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Summary: A Good Read
Review: A Good Read. You Can Feel Her Pain And I Am Supprised And Glad That She Survived. I Really Didn"t Know Her Father That Well Even Though I Went To School With Him. He Graduated From North Webster IN In 1955. All The Girls Had A Crush On Don, He Was A Good Looking Blond Guy And Was Voted The Most Likely To Succeed.
Go Figure!!!
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Summary: Anne Heche is anything but crazy...she's a true survivor
Review: ... If you have been fortunate in your life not to experience the betrayal, fear, anger and rejection by a trusted love one, count your blessings. But please, do not mane and wound those who have with your words of disbelief and ridicule. For Ms. Heche to stand before you and bare her soul as she did with her book, she had to summon a massive array of strength and courage. I applaud her true portrayal of her life. I applaud and congratulate her on her courage to come forward, to face the harsh criticism that I know she knew she'd have to face. And more importantly, I thank her for making her abuse known, for standing tall and taking it on the shoulder for all the rest of us who walk quietly behind her. I would highly recommend Ms. Heche's book to anyone.
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Summary: Neurosis 101
Review: Actor Heche became tabloid fodder for her lesbian relationship with comedian Ellen DeGeneres and a bizarre and strange incident in which Heche showed up at a total stranger's door raving and screaming about a spaceship that was coming to take her to heaven. In this harrowing and quite disturbing (I I dare say so) autobiography, Heche unflinchingly and very candidly lays bare the abuse and psychological trauma that led her to that moment. She grew up in a fundamentalist Christian family rife with dysfunction (e.g., a father who, she says, sexually molested her). Her resulting case of herpes went untreated because her mother didn't believe in doctors and might have caused her neurosis. Heche's father also disappeared for weeks at a time (she later learned he was stealing away to have homosexual affairs) and rarely seemed to be employed. The children were forbidden to ask any questions, under threat of being beaten with a wooden spoon. Now, with 13 years of therapy behind her, Heche is able to talk insightfully about her emotional landscape. One could make a statement that was suffereing from Neurotic ideas and was having problems with the ego, superego and the id. At one point, she believed herself to be a heavenly messenger from a "fourth dimension" of pure love; looking back, she realizes that this insanity was her subconscious way of surrounding herself with the love she craved, after being coldly rejected by her family. Heche says that she was attracted to DeGeneres's strong self-image, so different from her own shattered psyche (no she did not fall in love with Ellen becuase she was a lesbian per se as some people would have you believe, I think she was searching for what she did have not have in her own personal life). She doesn't describe herself as a lesbian, saying, "I fell in love with a person, not a gender," and was surprised and appalled that the relationship evoked such a strong negative reaction in the media. Heche is a superb narrator. Raw with emotion, her voice is by turns sorrowful, enraged and hopeful ( and insane at times, filled with neurosis), drawing the listener into her story.
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Summary: Gutsy book to have to write.
Review: Heche's story begins by confronting her mother regarding her father's abuse to the point where the reader is screaming, "get over it and move on". However as the story continues it becomes obvious that Heche's childhood was just horrendous and she should be commended for overcoming these hugh obstacles. I literally couldn't put the book down and still cannot believe Anne's mother reaction to all the relevation was, "Well you turned out all right!"
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Summary: HOW HAS SHE SURVIVED THIS LONG?
Review: This book contains revelations, raw emotion, and more than enough lunacy to go around. Reading about what Heche's sick, homosexual father did to his own family and to her personally turned my stomach. To live thru that and then to watch him waste away with AIDS left Heche with some severe emotional problems which, contrary to what she claims, don't appear to be healed. Her father's abuse and her mother's refusal to acknowledge it has also lead Heche to turn her back on God. One can only hope that this gifted actress can find lasting happiness and leave behind that which cannot be changed.
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Summary: A glimpse into a fascinating character~
Review: So, I asked myself, what makes Anne tick? This is a story of her troubled childhood and how her Father crossed the line, and how her Mother ignored the signs. There was a lot of confusion for her growing up and I'm sure this is what ultimately led to her "craziness" This is definitely fascinating to peek into the private life of such a well-known person. So as not to give away too much from her story I believe you do come away with a better understanding of her as a person.
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Summary: Searing, Evocative, Touching, and Brilliant!
Review: Anne Heche received a lot of flak for her supposed psychotic episode in 2000. (She believed her name was Celestia, and she was wandering in Fresno, CA, searching for her spaceship.) Yet what we learn from this disturbing and poignant memoir is that Heche suffered years of sexual abuse at the hands of her father. "Call Me Crazy" is an incredible book, unsettling and inspirational at the same time. Through Heche's bravado storytelling, there is something in the book that allows us to confront our own demons. "Call Me Crazy" is a search for acceptance, peace, and, most of all, love. Heche achieves the inner sanctity she so desired, and ends this astonishing piece of literature by wishing the reader "love that sees all of you and asks no sacrifice". Anne Heche is a wonderful person with a great deal of passion and courage. "Call Me Crazy" changed my life, and it will change yours too.
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Summary: Everything but crazy
Review: An authobiography at 31? Well, when you have a compelling story to tell, when you have the talent and the intelligence to do it the way Mz. Heche does, then I guess it is all right to sum up your life at 31. She tells her story frankly, openly, and without feeling sorry for herself nor for her readers.
The only uneasy feeling I got was at the very end of the book, when I wan't sure if the whole book was not written by Mz. Heche in order to clear herself and prove that she is not, after all, really gay. However, this feeling does not change the fact that the book is a great read, and if nothing else it proves that Mz. Heche is everything but crazy.
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