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4.05 AVERAGE
4.05 AVERAGE
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i had high hopes but this was not phenomenal. i love leah though. i am also shocked there wasn’t a michelle visage mention.
Libby audio-interesting read by Leah of her Scientology life & after her exit from it
I remember seeing commercials on tv when I was a kid about L. Ron Hubbards book Diantics-and wondering what it was about ( but not enough to actually get it and read it). Years later I heard about Scientology, and it seemed that so many movie stars were part of this church, but I did not immediately connect it with Hubbard or his book. I did wonder what it was about, and after watching the documentary Going Clear, i was shocked at the tactics of this "church" and the people who run it.
From a pure "gossipy" point of view, she openly discussed Tom Cruise and others who are part of the church, as well as those who left-it makes for interesting reading!
From a pure "gossipy" point of view, she openly discussed Tom Cruise and others who are part of the church, as well as those who left-it makes for interesting reading!
If there’s one thing Scientologists and non-Scientologists (*read ~sane~ people*) can both agree upon, it’s that Leah Remini has some serious balls. She is loud-mouthed, no bullshit, and as honest as they come. She even talks about why in the beginning she genuinely believed in Scientology with an earnestness that makes it believable. She believed in the teachings of L. Ron Hubbard, but started to see through the cracks at *gasp* Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes’s star-studded wedding. Once she saw how deep Cruise’s friendship was with David Miscaviage, Hubbard’s successor as the leader of the Church, she started to question who was really the man behind the curtain.
I will be honest, sometimes her voice narration began to irritate me, but I think even Leah would admit that after a while her voice begins to annoy. I would listen to this book in chunks on Audible and found myself really enthralled each time I dove in. Some of her family stuff became confusing, especially with Angelo, her husband.
I will be honest, sometimes her voice narration began to irritate me, but I think even Leah would admit that after a while her voice begins to annoy. I would listen to this book in chunks on Audible and found myself really enthralled each time I dove in. Some of her family stuff became confusing, especially with Angelo, her husband.
I really loved this book. Leah has a sincere way of writing and she's super funny! She didn't ramble, talked on point. I honestly couldn't put it down and had to keep reading.
Her use of the scientology terminology sometimes made it tough to read. It was like a foreign language. Otherwise it was interesting (probably would have rated higher if the writing was better) and I really wish Katie Holmes would have someone write HER memoir. I wonder how pissed Tom Cruise is about this book or if he's being a good Scientologist and doesn't know it exists. Also. How much of a bitch is Kirstie Alley?
dark
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inspiring
reflective
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fast-paced
I thought I had listened to this book before but I guess I didn’t.
Leah really gives us her truth and I love how open and honest she is with us. She really has gone through it and I am glad she has her family. From the way I understand Scientology she could have lost them all if they had stayed and she got out. So I am glad she has her family.
She narrated it perfectly!
Leah really gives us her truth and I love how open and honest she is with us. She really has gone through it and I am glad she has her family. From the way I understand Scientology she could have lost them all if they had stayed and she got out. So I am glad she has her family.
She narrated it perfectly!
Leah Remini is another celebrity where I don't think we'd be bffs. We look at the world in two completely different ways. That being said, I think Leah is a caring, loving, intelligent, good decent person who wants to do the right thing in life. I think she did a very good job with this book, making it person and from her unique experience. We learn about her early childhood growing up in Scientology and how it affected her life and her adulthood, which I thought was a great perspective to get that was missing in Going Clear. Why does someone want to be a Scientologist? What makes people born into the church stay in it? It gives it that human perspective that shows us exactly that, that this isn't something weird and strange and completely beyond our understanding; this is something that people go through and experience, and it isn't just weird people or celebrities, it's everyday people being part of their church like anyone else. She also gives us direct personal anecdotes about the church of Tom Cruise and how that aspect affected her and her life and her decision to leave the church. Also, J.Lo sounds like another really decent person, and I'm glad she stood by Leah. There was a strange segment where Leah bitterly recounts her experience starting up the television series The Talk and how she was booted from it after one season, I don't think this was relevent to Scientology, and I think she should have taken the high ground a little more than she did, but Julie Chen and Sharon Osbourne were talked about in a less than flattering way. I suppose it does tie in to her 'troublemaker' persona outside the church. No amount of listening to this book is going to make me like the King of Queens, though. I think overall the book was solid, she mostly kept to the point. It gives a much needed human perspective to Scientology from a reasonable and caring person.