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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
449 reviews for:
Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated
Alison Arngrim
4.13 AVERAGE
Check out my review...http://shannonsbookbag.blogspot.com/2011/02/confessions-of-prairie-bitch-angrim_05.html
I never watched Little House, but I knew about Nellie Olson. Now I’m a big fan! Alison is an abuse survivor, a funny lady (stand up!), and an AIDES activist when it wasn’t cool. She goes on the Goddess List. (She does her own narration, and has a unique delivery, but it’s pure Nellie.)
While the writing was less than fabulous, Alison's story was interesting. Perhaps it's my obsession with Little House on the Prairie, but I enjoyed reading this book. Additionally, Alison's attitude about her stardom and her history with sexual abuse are quite refreshing.
Loved this so much more than I expected. Funny, insightful and positive despite a very painful childhood. She was frank about what happened to her, but there wasn't the dark bitterness you might expect. She may dish about life on the Prairie, but it was rarely in meaneness- except about Melissa Sue Anderson.
This is one of my favorite reads of the year!
Allison Arngrim is a masterful storyteller. Her audible narration is pitch perfect, and every chapter is chock full of tragedy and humor which blended the pain of absentee parenting, sexual assault and terminal illness with the power of her commitment and celebrity in forcing changes that protected children and brought attention to the lives of those battling AIDs.
Put another way, she harnessed the power of playing a bitch and used it to save the world. And steal donuts.
Her life story was tragic and exceptional.
You can always get a sense from listening to someone whether they’re bullshitting you. There was no bullshit here. When she said Melissa Sue Anderson was a frosty bitch, but she’ll be the first to buy the margaritas if she ever wants to sit and talk, because her life story can’t have been too great either, she truly means it.
Highly, highly recommended.
Allison Arngrim is a masterful storyteller. Her audible narration is pitch perfect, and every chapter is chock full of tragedy and humor which blended the pain of absentee parenting, sexual assault and terminal illness with the power of her commitment and celebrity in forcing changes that protected children and brought attention to the lives of those battling AIDs.
Put another way, she harnessed the power of playing a bitch and used it to save the world. And steal donuts.
Her life story was tragic and exceptional.
You can always get a sense from listening to someone whether they’re bullshitting you. There was no bullshit here. When she said Melissa Sue Anderson was a frosty bitch, but she’ll be the first to buy the margaritas if she ever wants to sit and talk, because her life story can’t have been too great either, she truly means it.
Highly, highly recommended.
AMAZING!
Alison Arngrim is a wonderful story teller and I was hooked into her story from start to finish. Her pacing was spot on. She gave wonderful details about her time as Nellie Oleson which were wonderful and priceless.
I listened to this in audiobook - HIGHLY recommend. Alison reads it and nobody and it just made it even more amazing.
Alison Arngrim is a wonderful story teller and I was hooked into her story from start to finish. Her pacing was spot on. She gave wonderful details about her time as Nellie Oleson which were wonderful and priceless.
I listened to this in audiobook - HIGHLY recommend. Alison reads it and nobody and it just made it even more amazing.
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
So different than other authors. Refreshing, real, exquisite!
Alison Arngrim (Nellie Oleson from Little House on the Prairie) talks about her time as Nellie and shares very difficult details of her childhood and being sexually abused. Despite the fact that she shares hard topics in this memoir, she also talks candidly about what it was to work with Michael Landon, meeting Melissa Gilbert when they were both children, and why nobody liked Mary (Melissa Sue Anderson). She shares the details of what it was like to work with Katherine MacGregor and Richard Bull. She details her fabulous friendship with her tv husband, Steve Tracy (Percival) and his devastating death from AIDS.
I read this several years ago, and after reading a very bad memoir by another actress, I decided to read this one again. I remember it as one of the best memoirs I have ever read, and I was right. This book is delight. Despite a lot of hard topics in this book, Arngrim is real, warm, honest, and funny. She brings her time on Little House alive. She is also very candid and straightforward about her abuse at the hands of her brother and how she now helps victims of child sexual abuse. Her description of Michael Landon is loving but honest, and her tales of life on the set are captivating.
I would recommend this to fans of Little House on the Prairie and anyone who wants to read a good memoir.
I read this several years ago, and after reading a very bad memoir by another actress, I decided to read this one again. I remember it as one of the best memoirs I have ever read, and I was right. This book is delight. Despite a lot of hard topics in this book, Arngrim is real, warm, honest, and funny. She brings her time on Little House alive. She is also very candid and straightforward about her abuse at the hands of her brother and how she now helps victims of child sexual abuse. Her description of Michael Landon is loving but honest, and her tales of life on the set are captivating.
I would recommend this to fans of Little House on the Prairie and anyone who wants to read a good memoir.
Hilariously written and blatantly honest. Alison Angrim didn't leave out any detail of life on the Prairie — no matter how unpleasant it might have been. It was candid and brave. I thoroughly enjoyed this!