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Summary: Find Me Review by Molly D
Review: The book I read is called Find Me by Rosie O' Donnell. This book tells about Rosie's life as a child and her life when she was older. This book focused mainly on a character named Stacie. It talked a lot about finding yourself and trusting people. It makes you think about how by trusting someone you could be helping them and helping yourself.
The book starts off talking about Rosie's childhood. In the book Rosie uses flashes back a lot. Rosie lived at home with her mom, dad and four brothers and sisters. When Rosie was young her mother got breast cancer. No one told Rosie what her mother had, Rosie never knew until her mother died. Rosie was a strong child and very smart. She wanted to know everything in life and she found everything out on her own. When Rosie's mother died it forced her to be independent. Rosie took everything her mother said and brought it to her life. She was a determined child with a big heart.
When Rosie got older she became an actress and comedian. After becoming a comedian she got her own show, The Rosie O' Donnell Show. Rosie also opened and owns an adoption center. Rosie meets a girl named Stacie through her adoption center. The impact of meeting Stacie was so great that Rosie's life was never the same. One day a woman named Barbra called Rosie's Adoption center and told her about her 14-year old daughter. Barbra's daughter, Stacie, was raped by a minister and she was now pregnant. Barbra wanted to talk to Rosie about having the baby adopted after it was born. For some reason Rosie felt a connection to Stacie and wanted to help in anyway she could. Stacie and Rosie began talking on the phone every once and a while. Then they began to talk all the time, at least 3 times a day. Rosie's friends were worried about Rosie being so obsessed with this young girl; they didn't think Rosie should trust someone she had never met. They thought Stacie and her family were going to scam Rosie for her money. Rosie trusted Stacie. One day Stacie got sick and was in the hospital. Rosie called everyday to check up on her. Soon Stacie was physically better but mentally worse. She was sent to the psych ward. Rosie sent gifts hoping they would help Stacie feel better. Once Stacie had improved she tells Rosie she hasn't felt the baby move. It ends up the baby had died but Stacie still had to deliver it. Rosie calls the social worker who was working with the adoptive parents for Stacie's baby. The social worker tells Rosie there is no baby. Rosie tells her she knows the baby died. The social worker explains to Rosie she looked up Barbra, Doug and Stacie and there are no such people. There was no 14-year old girl in the hospital that they said Stacie had been in. Stacie was just a hoax.
Once Rosie finds out there is no Stacie she wants to get to the bottom of things. She calls the local police in the town where Stacie said she lived. The police couldn't give Rosie too much information, but they told Rosie the house that was said to be Stacie's was owned by a Melissa Star. Rosie calls Melissa and Melissa has no clue who Rosie is. Melissa does give Rosie her therapist's number. After talking to Tina, the therapist, Rosie discovers that Melissa has Multiple Personality Disorder and Stacie, Barb and Doug are some of her Personalities. This doesn't stop Rosie from being attached to Stacie. She becomes friends with Melissa. Rosie buys Melissa a new computer and an internet connection so they can e-mail each other. As Rosie receives the e-mails she meets different personalities. She meets Nancy, who is the writer of the group. She also meets Kate who is very mean. Kate burns Melissa body and causes the most pain to the body. Rosie becomes more obsessed with reading her e-mail and other things in her real life become less important to her.
Rosie decides she wants to meet Melissa. So Rosie arranges for Melissa and Tina to come to her show and stay at a nearby hotel for the weekend. When Rosie meets Melissa, she realizes she is just a normal woman even though she has Multiple Personality Disorder. Melissa never changes personality during their visit but she does have lots of burns on her. When Melissa leaves Rosie says, "She took my obsession with her in her carry on bag." After Rosie meets Melissa her suspicions were gone and she was able to get back to her real life, with her real friends and family. Rosie never heard from Stacie again, but she keeps in touch with Melissa. Rosie always says "Nothing happens by chance."
This book had many strengths. One of its strengths are the characters. The way Rosie described the people in this book made you feel as though you knew them. She explained them well. The way she talks about the characters makes you almost as obsessed with them as she was. The plot of the book was very good. It keeps you very interested and you never know what is going to happen next. It is not a predictable book, which makes you want to keep reading to see what will come next.
This book also had some weaknesses. One thing I didn't like about this book was there was not much information on Melissa different personalities. I think it would have been more interesting to meet more personalities or have more detail of some of them. The ending of the book felt a little abrupt. The book was so good I think it should have gone on a little longer and given the reader a little more information.
I would recommend this book to anyone. It has mystery in it and makes you want to keep reading. It also has a lot of life lessons. The book really makes you think about life and yourself. Would you trust a stranger? Do you trust yourself? Most of all does everything happen by chance?
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Summary: Different, but Interesting Read
Review: Rosie's book, "Find Me" was not what I expected at all. Having heard no publicity for the book (apparently I live in a cave), I went in thinking it was to be a coming out tale, a story about show business, et cetera. Instead, I was greeted with the tale of how at first Rosie went out her way to help a 14 year old woman, then bit by bit the pieces started coming apart to reveal a complex and completely different story.It was frightening at times to go into her mind, to see what issues she had battled, but so refreshing to rememeber she has her demons too. She is a person with real emotions and real feelings. It was nice to see the mask come down for these two hundred pages. It's an easy read--there's nothing terribly complex in the book. If you're interested in a different side of a celebrity who seems to be very familiar to us all, I encourage you to pick this book up.
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Summary: Great read.
Review: I am a big fan of Rosie O'donnel and I couldn't wait to read this book. I thought that it was going to be more about Rosie's personal life, but it was mostly about Stacie, the girl she was trying to help. Rosie did share parts of her life with us. She told us enough to let us into her thoughts and emotions but not so much that she was rambling about her life. I thoroughly enjoyed the book and I recommend it to anyone. Even if you aren't a huge Rosie fan, the twisted, true-life story is interesting and surprising. Great Read!
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Summary: This one will surprise and touch you deeply...
Review: If you think Rosie O'Donnell is just a comedian with a kind heart (not that that's any small feat), think again. In this memoir she proves herself to be an amazingly good writer as well, able to delve into the deepest recesses of her life and bring forth the emotional gems of her life's history. Her honesty is touching as well, whether she is writing about her continuing struggles with insecurity, depression and the mixed blessings of being a celebrity or how hard it can be to balance a desire to save the world with limitations of time and energy.
While I couldn't put this book down, it was not always an easy read. O'Donnell's memoir was sparked by an unexpected encounter with a person named Stacie and the feelings that Stacie evoked in Rosie. Parts of these encounters were so painful to read that I had to put the book down and take a breather before returning to it.
I can't give you too many details of Stacie's life without spoiling the book for you but I can say that Stacie evokes memories in Rosie that help create this memoir.
While everyone knows O'Donnell is a funny, funny lady, if you are expecting this book to be filled with humor and jokes, you should probably look elsewhere. But if you want to know more about the real Rosie O'Donnell, the person who exists beyond the glare of studio lights and television appearances, you won't be disappointed. I admit I was surprised by how moving this book was. Kudos to Rosie!
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Summary: Surprised...disappointed
Review: Being a big Rosie fan, I was excited about reading this book and perhaps learning a bit more about her as a private person. I was surprised to read a book more about an obsession of hers...about a severely troubled girl who Rosie barely knew, but to whom she communicated, knowing full well the girl was in therapy and could be volatile. Against the advice of many of her close friends, she got involved with something that could have been dangerous, not only for Rosie, but the girl she was 'helping.' The other side of Rosie, the side we don't see on camera, came through in this book as a woman who dramatizes too much and is living with the 'poor little me' syndrome. We would be glad to sympathize with her childhood tramas, but the story should be in how she is overcoming them to find love, children, a nice life...not in a weird story about this girl she is e-mailing. This book is a surprisingly sad, self-absorbed explanation to the generosity she has always displayed. Too bad. I thought she was more level-headed than this. The book is a fast, simplistic read, but don't read it unless you're prepared to be disillusioned about Rosie and the motives behind her good deeds.
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Summary: Good but...
Review: It a eassy and interesting book to read. Rosie is a good story teller, she make you care about the person in the book, make you want to know more about them. She relate funny and sad memories. It start good but become very confusing and very hard to believe but has life is strange sometime truth is more strange then movie and this time this story is very strange. The book left me wondering why to some questions I have. How come Melissa said she was pregnant, how could she make it beleive to Rosie. It's pretty hard to believe that Rosie had fall for all this, that story is very strange but surely can be true.
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Summary: A Rosie book for people who can't stand Rosie...?
Review: From what I've seen of Rosie O'Donnell, she's entirely self-absorbed, her quest of "single parenthood" being only one illustration of her "me-first" universe. THAT SAID, I love adoption, and I was intrigued by the premise, so I picked this book up. And I enjoyed it, which is why I set out to write a good review. But as I wrote this review, I kept coming back to a few flaws until, finally, I went back up and changed my mark to a 3. First, the story is probably not as Big or as Intense as Rosie would have us believe. Yes, it is a fascinating story, and it's relatively well-told, with enough enjoyable moments that I made it all the way through -- in a single sitting. BUT... I'm not *that* fast a reader; for a 200-some-odd-page book, there's a lot of fluff and white space. As for what it's a story about, well...I'm not quite sure. We're meant to come away with the impression that Rosie is Full of Love, that her heart bleeds for young birth mothers. BUT...in the meantime, she dumps her *own* kids with a nanny so she can get on with her career. Apparently, she feels no empathy for them; they're not pregnant teenagers, I guess (yet!). This book has been lauded for its honesty, which is what we say anytime a star brings herself down to our level. That, this book certainly does, and it does create an interesting story around Rosie's relationship with a vulnerable young woman. BUT... ultimately, it is "Real" and "Honest" only in a cloying, self-conscious way that contrasts bitterly with the details of the real life that O'Donnell has tried to acquire for herself. She bought herself a couple of babies, she bought herself a career, and now, with this book, she's trying to buy herself a halo. She'd probably do better trying to *earn* it by making time for the kids she has already misguidedly brought into her life...rather than by chasing complete strangers over the Internet.
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Summary: give snaps for writing but...
Review: I bought the book for my ex girlfriend when it came out... I bought it from an antique shop for 5 dollars, right after it came out. That should've been a bad sign from the get-go, but i bought it anyways because my at the time girlfriend was a big a fan of Rosie. I read it in the car on the way to Houston and it was no where close to what I expected. I was greatly disappointed. I was setup for a great book and instead of caviar, i got some bad tuna. The book goes on and on about a girl named Stacie, and then zaps you into O'Donnell's childhood. Iit made it slightly difficult to follow. The media set the book up as if it was a wonderful coming out story (seeing how at the time she had just recently come out of the closet), but no, the story was about Stacie. I was very disappointed. Had the story been advertised for what it is, I probably would have enjoyed it.
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Summary: Different, but Interesting Read
Review: Rosie's book, "Find Me" was not what I expected at all. Having heard no publicity for the book (apparently I live in a cave), I went in thinking it was to be a coming out tale, a story about show business, et cetera. Instead, I was greeted with the tale of how at first Rosie went out her way to help a 14 year old woman, then bit by bit the pieces started coming apart to reveal a complex and completely different story. It was frightening at times to go into her mind, to see what issues she had battled, but so refreshing to rememeber she has her demons too. She is a person with real emotions and real feelings. It was nice to see the mask come down for these two hundred pages. It's an easy read--there's nothing terribly complex in the book. If you're interested in a different side of a celebrity who seems to be very familiar to us all, I encourage you to pick this book up.
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Summary: It stank
Review: I read this book in one night at the public library. I feel almost sorry for Rosie O'Donnell. She is a very sick, codependent woman. She has absolutely no boundaries and that's very unhealthy. I feel very sorry for her children to grow up in a house with a woman who doesn't want to learn to take care of herself. Sad.
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