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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
451 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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funny
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reflective
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medium-paced
Content Warnings
Graphic: Incest, Rape
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Amazing and funny-- a unique peak into Nellie Oleson, the character and the actress who played her. Amazing person.
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Bought via recent Amazon sale for $1.99 and it was worth so much more! Thoroughly enjoyed this memoir of Nellie Oleson. Angrim has a delightful voice and manages the balance between sharing her own heartbreaking story and not wallowing. She does a marvelous job of showing how the character of Nellie allowed her not only escape from physical and sexual abuse, but also how to stand up for herself in the end.
Wish I could have seen her live stand up. It sounds hysterical.
Wish I could have seen her live stand up. It sounds hysterical.
I loved this book it was kind of sad to hear some of the things she went through as a child especially stuffed unto her by her brother. And definitely the little house set was not is what it seems from TV. But I still love the show and I have a lot more respect for Nelly olsen now.
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This is definitely a cut above the typical "tell all" TV-star memoir. And despite the title, Arngrim is not so much bitchy as telling the truth--which for many people is the same thing. The writing style is simple yet engaging--it's the stories and the humorous twist put on everything but the truly awful passages that make it great.
Yes, we do get secrets--horrible ones about Arngrim's childhood, but plenty of amusing stories about Little House characters. (There are two great stories, one involving underwear and the other, the lack of it.) As a one-time "Little House" fan I adored those stories.
There's definitely swearing, mostly in quotes or when it's appropriate or amusing.
Now I want to see Arngrim's stand-up act.
Yes, we do get secrets--horrible ones about Arngrim's childhood, but plenty of amusing stories about Little House characters. (There are two great stories, one involving underwear and the other, the lack of it.) As a one-time "Little House" fan I adored those stories.
There's definitely swearing, mostly in quotes or when it's appropriate or amusing.
Now I want to see Arngrim's stand-up act.
A fantastic book. Alison Arngrim is an amazingly brave woman, and hilarious to boot. This memoir of her growing up years and time spent as Nellie Oleson on The Little House on the Prairie TV series is immensely readable.
Arngrim has a great sense of humor. She tells it like it was, never afraid to be brutally honest about her highly disfunctional family, especially when it comes to the horrible abuse she suffered at the hands of her older brother. While what she had to endure as a child is something truly abhorrent, Arngrim never comes across as a victim looking for pity - she dealt with her experiences in the most positive way possible and turned them into ways of helping others who might be suffering. I admire her greatly.
Too, her stories about the goings-on on The Little House set, including the real personalities of the various actors, were fascinating, especially for a LH fan like me. Clearly Arngrim is nothing like her on screen personae, Nellie, and it's a testament to her great acting abilities that Nellie was such a horrible character and yet I'd love to go out for drinks with Arngrim any time.
Fun book - I highly recommend it to any fan of the Little House series.
Arngrim has a great sense of humor. She tells it like it was, never afraid to be brutally honest about her highly disfunctional family, especially when it comes to the horrible abuse she suffered at the hands of her older brother. While what she had to endure as a child is something truly abhorrent, Arngrim never comes across as a victim looking for pity - she dealt with her experiences in the most positive way possible and turned them into ways of helping others who might be suffering. I admire her greatly.
Too, her stories about the goings-on on The Little House set, including the real personalities of the various actors, were fascinating, especially for a LH fan like me. Clearly Arngrim is nothing like her on screen personae, Nellie, and it's a testament to her great acting abilities that Nellie was such a horrible character and yet I'd love to go out for drinks with Arngrim any time.
Fun book - I highly recommend it to any fan of the Little House series.