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Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated
Alison Arngrim
4.13 AVERAGE
447 reviews for:
Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated
Alison Arngrim
4.13 AVERAGE
I took this to bed with me last night and read it straight through.
Candid, humorous, touching, blunt....the villian's perspective of Little House. She's been through a lot in her life, but seems to have turned it all into passion for helping others.
Oh my, this woman is amazing!
Like many fans of Little House I didn't like the character of Nellie Oleson. She was annoying. I didn't really know anything about the actress that portrayed her, and didn't have an opinion one way or another.
The real person, Alison Arngrim, survived some intense stuff in her life, and she did it with an amazing resolve and sense of humor. I recommend that everyone read this book whether or not you're a fan of the show. Read it if you want to learn about someone with an indomitable spirit.
Like many fans of Little House I didn't like the character of Nellie Oleson. She was annoying. I didn't really know anything about the actress that portrayed her, and didn't have an opinion one way or another.
The real person, Alison Arngrim, survived some intense stuff in her life, and she did it with an amazing resolve and sense of humor. I recommend that everyone read this book whether or not you're a fan of the show. Read it if you want to learn about someone with an indomitable spirit.
I liked it and I would recommend it to someone considering it, but I don't have anything else to say about it.
Great read! Arngrim has embraced her one-hit-wonder status as an actress and parlayed it into a meaningful career as an advocate for victims of childhood sexual abuse and AIDS sufferers.
Alison Arngrim has a wonderful voice and tells her story with humor, wit, and poignancy. I never thought I could tear up reading a book about Nellie Oleson, but Arngrim really turns Nellie into an unexpectedly strong feminist symbol who helped her get through some unfathomably horrific times. This is the best of the Little House memoirs, followed by Melissa Gilbert’s. I also loved the anecdotes of their friendship over the years. Recommended for all fans of Little House!
This memoir is second only to Jennette Mccurdy's. I loved this book, and now love Alison Arngrim even more. I cannot recommend it enough for Little House fans or appreciators.
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Years ago when the book first came out, I read Confessions of a Prairie Bitch and got to see Alison Arngrim in person at Laura Ingalls Wilder Days at Heritage Hill Historical Park right here in Green Bay. She’s laugh out loud funny; it’s no wonder she makes part of her living as a stand-up comedian. I’ve been watching Little House on the Prairie on Amazon Prime and did a little searching on Audible.com and found this book free as part of the Audible Plus membership. Yes! I’m always finding treasures through Audible Plus.
Alison Arngrim knows how to tell a story, and having the book narrated by her is a plus. She’s a pro performer. And while she keeps her sense of humor about life (I also firmly believe in the adage you either laugh or cry and choose laughter), some pretty terrible stuff happened to her. Raised by mostly absent parents who were more concerned about their careers and later hers, they allowed her older brother to watch over her. He ended up sexually abusing her for years.
Arngrim regales the reader or listener with behinds the scenes tales of life on the Little House set, including the dish on some of her co-stars. She became best friends with Melissa Gilbert, who played Laura, and kept her distance from Melissa Sue Anderson, who was aloof and not encouraged to interact with her fellow child actors. It was only when reading the book years ago that I found out Melissa Gilbert’s brother Jonathan was Alison’s on-screen brother, Willie. She had/has great relationships with her on-screen parents and speaks fondly of them.
Much time is also spent on her relationship with her TV husband Steve Tracy, who was an early victim of the AIDS epidemic. Arngrim has become a very vocal activist for several causes including supporting LGBTQ+ community. She’s a great example of someone using her celebrity to help out those in need.
If you remember the 1970’s TV show, you’ll get a kick out of this memoir. Highly recommend!
Years ago when the book first came out, I read Confessions of a Prairie Bitch and got to see Alison Arngrim in person at Laura Ingalls Wilder Days at Heritage Hill Historical Park right here in Green Bay. She’s laugh out loud funny; it’s no wonder she makes part of her living as a stand-up comedian. I’ve been watching Little House on the Prairie on Amazon Prime and did a little searching on Audible.com and found this book free as part of the Audible Plus membership. Yes! I’m always finding treasures through Audible Plus.
Alison Arngrim knows how to tell a story, and having the book narrated by her is a plus. She’s a pro performer. And while she keeps her sense of humor about life (I also firmly believe in the adage you either laugh or cry and choose laughter), some pretty terrible stuff happened to her. Raised by mostly absent parents who were more concerned about their careers and later hers, they allowed her older brother to watch over her. He ended up sexually abusing her for years.
Arngrim regales the reader or listener with behinds the scenes tales of life on the Little House set, including the dish on some of her co-stars. She became best friends with Melissa Gilbert, who played Laura, and kept her distance from Melissa Sue Anderson, who was aloof and not encouraged to interact with her fellow child actors. It was only when reading the book years ago that I found out Melissa Gilbert’s brother Jonathan was Alison’s on-screen brother, Willie. She had/has great relationships with her on-screen parents and speaks fondly of them.
Much time is also spent on her relationship with her TV husband Steve Tracy, who was an early victim of the AIDS epidemic. Arngrim has become a very vocal activist for several causes including supporting LGBTQ+ community. She’s a great example of someone using her celebrity to help out those in need.
If you remember the 1970’s TV show, you’ll get a kick out of this memoir. Highly recommend!
This was a good book. It made me want to go and watch Little House obser the Prairie.
This is one of the better books from a child star. There is humor, insight and a lot of good story telling from a series that for many, my self included, was a weekly standard.