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Summary: heart-wrenching-but a must read
Review: I have been going back to this book since I was sixteen years old-quite a while ago. Deborah does a wonderful job of putting those "Nauseating Nancy" myths to rest and showing Nancy for what she was....a emotionally disturbed young girl desperate for acceptance and escape from her pain.It takes an extraordinarily strong mother to be able to write what Deborah has....kudos to you. Congrats to Susan for her wonderful position at Martha Stewart Living!
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Summary: "I'M GOING TO BE ME,AND NOBODY ELSE.OR DIE FIGHTINGTO."
Review: This could very well be the nhilistic yet brilliant credo of the beautiful Nancy Laura Spungen. Misunderstood,angry,and in pain from day one,Nancy had wanted to die early on.She had stated her wish by age 11,and even mapped out the when and how by age 16.Nancy was brilliant and clarvoiant(in a broader sense of the word)from the moment of her troubled birth.She was different.Taken together these two characteristics made her an outcast amongst the arrogant,ignorant masses,and the inanity of elementary,juinor,and SR. High school.Nancy knew she was meant for something more,and wasted no time setting out in search of it.This quickly landed her in a mental hospital by age 11.Then it was off to a mental hospital/school from 11 to 16 years old.From there she was finally set free but had already become far too damaged.Her behavior learned in the mental hospital got her arrested and kicked out of The University of Colorado before she even had a chance to make use of her brilliance. This caused her such a great level of disappointment that she decided then and there that she was too different and too "weird" to ever have a chance.This is when she prophisised(sp?) her own future of fame,decadence and death. I'm personally sad that I wasn't around then to have helped her.The world lost one of God's most precious and beautiful angels when Nancy bled to death on the bathroom floor of room 100 in the Chelsea Hotel in N.Y. Her mother's portrayl of Nancy's life is,if nothing else,at least it's the most accurate.However,it is completely lacking any kind of empathy or understanding.Worse yet,being that this her own mother,the book also lacks sympathy.In all,there is much to be learned from Nancy's unfortunate life. May you rest in peace,my beautiful angel... R.I.P. NANCY&SID
LOVE ALWAYS,
NATASHA ARIELLE MISTRESS OF THE JUNKYARD
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Summary: Pleasure and Pain
Review: I first heard about Nancy Spungen from the movie "Sid and Nancy". Although I was familiar with The Sex Pistols and their music prior to the film. Nancy was a groupie that won the heart of Sid Vicious.
I picked up the book written by Deborah Spungen, Nancy's mother, as was completely enthralled. I guarantee that you will be fascinated by this true account from a mother's point of view. The book follows Nancy's life from beginning to end. Nancy was one messed up chick. She was a drug user and a schizophrenic who made everyone's life hell. Fascinating book. Read it.
I have read it about 3 times.
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Summary: Sad mom's way out
Review: Nancy Spungeon was a friend of mine, and she was not the way this book portrays her. Nancy was a sweet girl. If you read this book, please consider that it may tell more about the mother than the daughter. The mother wrote this book to try to absolve herself of any responsibility and blame it all on Nancy. THAT is nothing new. If you read this book, please give Nancy some of the compassion she never got from home.
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Summary: A touching book
Review: Nancy's mother is able to provide an unbiased view of her daughter's undiagnosed illness from chilhood onward. She doesn't try and make it any less real than it is, nor does she make excuses for herself as a parent. Nancy is presented as a horrible and unruly child, but also as a girl suffering from possible schizophrenia and from drug addiction. This book can be enjoyed by psychiatrists, Sex Pistols fans, or people who just like to read 'disaster stories' and real life drama. Mrs. Spungen's description of Sid is particularly interesting.
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Summary: Compelling
Review: I had never even heard of Nancy Spungen until I happened upon a Sid Vicious web site. Intrigued, I decided to buy this book and I'm glad I did! Deborah Spungen writes exceedingly well and this, coupled with her retelling of her daughter's life, makes her book hard to put down. I even loaned it to my mom and she couldn't stop reading it! If you think your life is tough, pick up this book and be grateful you never had to live with Nancy! She was misguided and misdiagnosed and as a result her life was a short, tragic one. On a scale of 1 to 10, I'd give this book a definite 12!
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Summary: Sad!
Review: A friend who was into Punk Rock and The Sex Pistols suggested after I watched the movie Sid and Nancy that I read this book and I took her advice and read it and though very shocking I did like the book and I thought the story of Nancy's life was very sad and how the educational system failed her and how basically this was a mentally ill drug addicted girl who wasn't given the help that she needed and how hard it was for her family too.
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Summary: Were we reading the same story , sir???
Review: Deborah Spungen's no-excuses style makes this a book that you can not put down. This is a story that must be told as the predjudice against Nancy Spungen is obvious in the last review where the gentlemen seems to think that Nancy is a murderer rather than a victim of a murder...Almost every review here states that the reader has read the book again and again - as did I. A major tribute to the intensity of the book. Great job, Mrs. Spungen and may your daughter's warm embrace await you in heaven.
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Summary: Read it again for the third time. . .
Review: And I cried this time also. It is a pain that I understand as I too have a child like Nancy. And like the Spungens, I have another child who has it all together. Something happened right there in those first moments of life and here we are 30 years later with a grown woman who still kicks,screams and cries like an infant. No amount of love, attention, money or therapy is enough. Nancy Spungen's horrible death is my nightmare. Deborah Spungen's fear and pain are my reality. What an amazingly honest story of ordinary people up against something so much bigger than themselves. This book will make you go back in for a second good-night kiss from your children. This book will make you count your many blessings. Thank you for that, Deborah.
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Summary: Best absolvement of responsibility ever written
Review: wouldn't this make a lovely movie? A book about how to commit murder and get away with it. Mrs. Spungen may believe all she wants that she fooled us( and from the rating of her book it may seem as though she achieved her purpose) she nowhere convinces me that Nancy was disturbed from infancy. Nancy was probably like one of the many young American girls which each year fall victim to drug abuse because of Bad Parenting. It is very easy to portray her as a "problem child" when she is dead. I like to see if Mrs. Spungen would have written such a decrepit book if Nancy would have come out of her trauma and be functional.( What an appeal to pity this book makes!) It is very easy to distort the truth when our subject is six feet under! The fact remains that kids are not mushrooms. They grow in particular environments, one usually set out by their parents. Problems is that when the child does not react in the "proper" manner parents need a way to explain their mistake. Good Try Mrs. Spungen, but it doesn't cut it!
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