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4.29 AVERAGE
4.29 AVERAGE
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Interesting memoir. First half is quite good, but second half is a bit all over the place, has odd pacing, and just didn't keep my attention. I agree with other reviews that this book does lack any real self-reflection or introspection, points usually pretty prominent in a memoir. It conveys her life story well and has a strong voice, but it's more of a 'tell you about my life' rather than getting any real lessons or guidance out of it, for both author and reader it seems. Interesting though and would be good for those who don't often read memoirs, as celebrity ones are often a good entry into the genre for new readers.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Sexual content
Moderate: Death, Domestic abuse, Sexual assault
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I had no idea who Julia Fox was before reading this book. It got rave reviews from a few Instagram book influencers a few months ago when I still thought those people could read and had good taste. In their defense, it IS well-written aside from the ridiculous amount of time you spend reading (or listening to) her describe her phone ringing or receiving notifications.
Fox had a tumultuous upbringing and desperately needed a nurturing, involved mother. It was hard to read about her childhood and adolescence, skipping her teenage years entirely as she went straight from age 12 into adulthood. There were so many points in the book where if she’d been a little less smart, a little less pretty, or a little less lucky she would have died.
The book does not reveal exactly how Fox became famous but she was very well-known in New York and then there were some landmark events—being in Playboy, being in a movie with Adam Sandler, publishing some books, and the big one—dating Kanye West. She used a lot of drugs and had a baby, too.
The book made me sad. So many times Fox described finding friends she felt deeply connected to and then feeling abandoned by them. I could not even keep track of all the people she became deeply entwined with and then moved on from. Her relationships with men were terrifying and awful. There was a five-year period where she described having a sugar daddy and ruthlessly betraying him, other men, and friends. She described acts of pettiness that were deeply disturbing in their disregard for others. Under all of it, there was so much loss and loneliness.
This is a highly-rated book on Goodreads and Fox described her memoir as a masterpiece in two interviews—one before she wrote and one after. She has a shocking story to tell, but my hesitance to rate it any higher is that it’s just a bunch of stories you’d tell your friends on a drunk evening. She hasn’t accomplished anything that has given her life stability or meaning. She comes across as a masterful opportunist who is always trying to ‘hit the big one.’ She shared a lot of insight about her struggles with addiction that continued to be an issue at the book’s conclusion. I think she is a person who is still deeply hurting, who doesn’t know who she is, and who doesn’t know what to do with her life. She admits she’s a mess and that makes her seem relatable until she gets off on a tangent about her specialness.
She was correct about her relationship with Kanye being the least interesting thing in her book.
Fox had a tumultuous upbringing and desperately needed a nurturing, involved mother. It was hard to read about her childhood and adolescence, skipping her teenage years entirely as she went straight from age 12 into adulthood. There were so many points in the book where if she’d been a little less smart, a little less pretty, or a little less lucky she would have died.
The book does not reveal exactly how Fox became famous but she was very well-known in New York and then there were some landmark events—being in Playboy, being in a movie with Adam Sandler, publishing some books, and the big one—dating Kanye West. She used a lot of drugs and had a baby, too.
The book made me sad. So many times Fox described finding friends she felt deeply connected to and then feeling abandoned by them. I could not even keep track of all the people she became deeply entwined with and then moved on from. Her relationships with men were terrifying and awful. There was a five-year period where she described having a sugar daddy and ruthlessly betraying him, other men, and friends. She described acts of pettiness that were deeply disturbing in their disregard for others. Under all of it, there was so much loss and loneliness.
This is a highly-rated book on Goodreads and Fox described her memoir as a masterpiece in two interviews—one before she wrote and one after. She has a shocking story to tell, but my hesitance to rate it any higher is that it’s just a bunch of stories you’d tell your friends on a drunk evening. She hasn’t accomplished anything that has given her life stability or meaning. She comes across as a masterful opportunist who is always trying to ‘hit the big one.’ She shared a lot of insight about her struggles with addiction that continued to be an issue at the book’s conclusion. I think she is a person who is still deeply hurting, who doesn’t know who she is, and who doesn’t know what to do with her life. She admits she’s a mess and that makes her seem relatable until she gets off on a tangent about her specialness.
She was correct about her relationship with Kanye being the least interesting thing in her book.
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Julia has such an amazing voice for writing, and the most amazing tantalizing stories to share. This book had me laughing and sobbing. She’s had like 1000 lives in one. The audiobook narrated by Julia herself was such a more emotional listening experience.
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