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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
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Just the cheer-up I needed.
Many years ago, I worked on the same lot that Little House on the Prairie had their studio setup, so I used to see them around. (I took my sister, a huge fan, over their set once when they were all in the valley). Later, when I left the film industry and had my kid, I watched episodes on a tiny black and white while recovering from C-sec surgery.
So seeing Nellie Olson's scowling face on this book was a must-grab, and it was just as engrossing, and sometimes funny, always breezy, as promised. This is not completely easy-reading--it starts off with horrific child abuse, but matter-of-factly told, and later, she gets into what she did about it, and what she does now to help others caught in the same horror.
Her stories about the stars of the show, and what happened in various episodes, and on her visits to fans, are vivid and entertaining.
Many years ago, I worked on the same lot that Little House on the Prairie had their studio setup, so I used to see them around. (I took my sister, a huge fan, over their set once when they were all in the valley). Later, when I left the film industry and had my kid, I watched episodes on a tiny black and white while recovering from C-sec surgery.
So seeing Nellie Olson's scowling face on this book was a must-grab, and it was just as engrossing, and sometimes funny, always breezy, as promised. This is not completely easy-reading--it starts off with horrific child abuse, but matter-of-factly told, and later, she gets into what she did about it, and what she does now to help others caught in the same horror.
Her stories about the stars of the show, and what happened in various episodes, and on her visits to fans, are vivid and entertaining.
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Very Entertaining! Even through some very traumatic experiences - she has kept her great sense of humor
3.5 stars. A very insightful inside look into what went on behind the scenes of Little House on the Prairie, as told from the perspective of the actress who played the dreaded Nellie Oleson. It really brought back fond memories of the show, but I couldn’t get into a lot of other parts of the memoir which is why it’s 3.5 stars for me.
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Not sure how I missed Alison Arngrim when she was on the book publicity circuit...I had never heard of this book until it somehow got recommended to me via GoodReads (wish I could remember what book that I read connected me to it!)
I was not a rabid fan of Little House on the Prairie, but like any other child of the 1970's, I definitely watched it. In fact, I liked it enough to subject my children to the first few episodes on DVD until I could see that they were not interested. I'm also not a celebrity memoir reader -- think I've only read one other (Lauren Bacall's, in Spanish, because I was in Mexico at the time and trying to practice my Spanish skills -- it was a book I thought I would be able to understand!) So this book was a surprise -- Alison Arngrim has an interesting and complicated family history and childhood. The stories about being on the set of Little House are told affectionately, and there are interesting tidbits for those of us who watched about the cast. But it was her subsequent work in political activism for AIDS and child abuse that were the most compelling parts of the book. Because she has turned her life into a stand-up comedy act, it's a pretty breezy read through some difficult life situations, but by the end, you are really glad to have met the likeable woman behind the despicable Nellie Olsen.
I was not a rabid fan of Little House on the Prairie, but like any other child of the 1970's, I definitely watched it. In fact, I liked it enough to subject my children to the first few episodes on DVD until I could see that they were not interested. I'm also not a celebrity memoir reader -- think I've only read one other (Lauren Bacall's, in Spanish, because I was in Mexico at the time and trying to practice my Spanish skills -- it was a book I thought I would be able to understand!) So this book was a surprise -- Alison Arngrim has an interesting and complicated family history and childhood. The stories about being on the set of Little House are told affectionately, and there are interesting tidbits for those of us who watched about the cast. But it was her subsequent work in political activism for AIDS and child abuse that were the most compelling parts of the book. Because she has turned her life into a stand-up comedy act, it's a pretty breezy read through some difficult life situations, but by the end, you are really glad to have met the likeable woman behind the despicable Nellie Olsen.