About this title: The former teen star of "One Day at a Time" reveals her shocking, moving story about growing up in a legendary rock-and-roll family, the personal demons and addictions she has battled, and her struggle to find redemption and peace.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon Spotlight Entertainment
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9781439153857ISBN:143915385X
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Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Pocket Books
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9781439153857ISBN:143915385X
Description: New. The former teen star of "One Day at a Time" reveals her shocking, moving story about growing up in a legendary rock-and-roll family, the personal demons and addictions she has battled, and her struggle to find redemption and peace. read more
"I watched "One Day at a Time" in reruns. I'm a huge fan of the Mamas and the Papas. I read John and Michelle Phillips' respective autobiographies in the '80s. Blah blah blah. I like biographies and autobiographies as a general rule, particularly when they relate to music, writing, acting and/or art. I like memoirs, period. I wouldn't necessarily place "High on Arrival" in the same class as the memoirs of Mary Karr or Augusten Burroughs (who, incidentally, writes a glowing review on this book's jacket), but as celebrity bios go, it's definitely much better than average. Phillips comes across as an articulate, intelligent, funny, and loving person who never paints herself as being more honorable than she is. She cuts herself the right amount of slack--which quite often means she cuts herself none.
The media latched onto Phillips' disclosure of incest in this book and ran amok. I observed her demeanor in many interviews before I read the book and immediately believed her story. What I saw was a kindred spirit--I have done what she is doing on a much, MUCH smaller scale, which is to say I have published and participated in readings of my writing that included my experiences as an incest survivor. There is no ulterior motive for such actions beyond healing, reclaiming one's voice, and telling one's truth. Incest is only a small part of Mackenzie Phillips' truth, and reading this book only made her story seem more plausible. Junkies don't have great boundaries; obscenely wealthy junkies regarded as rock gods who have their cocaine FedExed to them on the road are likely to have boundaries even more blurry than the average junkie, and surrounded mostly by worshipers and/or people on the payroll, are likely to be knee-deep in people looking the other way. The way those "in the know" reacted in the media? Textbook. No incest survivor who has told his or her story did not face at least a few villagers with flaming torches.
There's good Hollywood and music-biz dish in this book; whatever you think of her, this person has had a very interesting life. It's definitely a cautionary tale about everything drugs can do to a person and a family. She is lucky to be alive. I wish her the best, hope she stays clean, and applaud her considerable courage in writing this book."
"This is definitely not the best writing I've ever read, by far. But I liked reading her story, all the ups and downs, the chaos and the drama. Sure, there were time that I was annoyed at how repetitive she was, and the fact that things were not always in chronological order, but I think it also served as the perfect example of what she spends so much time mentioning: she doesn't remember her life in sequence. It was a good read, though certainly not a book I'd ever read again. Pick it up at the library, it's a quick read."
"I was up and down with this book. I mean I liked it but that was all. I felt that sometimes she was holding back and didn't really want to tell the truth about "certain" things. She did tell a lot and I am sure it was hard for her but then there were things that I just couldn'e grasp.
Like about her father, I think she was more aware than what she was telling us. I think she loved her father very much so and wanted to protect him and that's why she waited until his death to come out about it but I feel that maybe she wanted to be "closer" to him (if you get me) not that she wanted to be intimate with him but I do feel that maybe she allowed it to happen because she wanted his attention (leaving nothing really wrong with her but more so with him.
Do I make sense? It makes sense in my head and I fell maybe I am not being as clear as I want to be. But with that being said 3/5 stars just because it was a good read."
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