Life with My Sister Madonna
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 | Product Details: Hardcover 352 pages Release Date: 14 July 2008 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd ISBN: 1847374387 Rating:   Sales Rank: 3641 | | Look for similar books by subject:
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| | Customer Reviews: Motivated entirely by money (31 December 2008)Christopher Ciccone is motivated by money. Why else would he sell his soul to the devil and write a "tell all" book on his own flesh and blood? As a lifelong Madonna fan, I didntfind out anything new about her by reading this book. Everybody knows she is woman who likes to be in control, how else would she have remained on the top of her game for so long? So for Christopher to harp on about her "control issues" seems a little old hat to me. Christopher seems to think that as Madonna's brother he is entitled to be rewarded financially. Maybe it was the lack of the any forthcoming rewards from his sister that provoked him into writing the book in the first place. I found his quote regarding the car in which Madonna's assistant drives compared to his "second hand cadilac" very ammusing. The assistant is actually working for a living Christopher, you should try it and perhaps then you too will be able to afford a posh car. All in all, Life With My Sister Madonna,isnt the worst book that I have ever read, yet it falls somewhere short of being a gripping page turner. I much prefered Madonna by J. Randy Taraborrelli, as this gave a much more unbiased view. A really good read (18 September 2008)I am not a big fan of Madonna but decided to give this book a go. I really enjoyed this book and found it hard to put down. In fact I was really disappointed when I finished it. I felt Christopher gave a fair view in the book and it was a great insight into Madonna's life and her lifestyle. I loved it. Grow up you moronic loser (16 September 2008)I have never been a huge fan of Madonna and so read this book wih an open mind. This book is really much a do about nothing, it has obviously been written to line the pockets of a bitter, twisted person who is jealous of his sisters success. He starts the book being in awe of his sister but by the end he is unable to contain his jealousy and resorts to whingeing e.g. "Her house is bigger than mine" etc... YAWN! He seems to forget, that had it not been for Madonna's success he would be flipping burgers for a living- he should've spent his money more wisely, instead of blowing it all (no pun intended), buying his way into the celebrity circuit. It's interesting to note that as soon as Madonna kicked him into touch, so did his so called celebrity pals (Demi Moore, being a prime example). As for Madonna herself, who knows? It is very doubtful she will ever resort to releasing a similar book, so we will never know the reasons behind her treatment of Christopher. BUT as an outsider looking in, it would appear that she grew tired of his party lifestyle and constant whining about money... And he has now done the worst thing a "loving" relative can ever do... sell out Myth busting? (09 September 2008)Christopher Ciccone is Madonna's younger brother and, as the only gay man in the large family of 8 children, naturally fell into the creation and masterminding of the woman who would become the most famous icon of our time. Reading this bitter, and 'myth-busting' autobiography, I couldn't help noticing that despite the explicit aim of the book - to reveal all about Madonna - she still remains elusive and almost outside the frame at times. Why else are so many people still so fascinated with her? Ciccone gives us no insight into why she can disregard and fail to understand the needs of others so easily, neither does he explore why exactly it is she is so, in his words, 'profoundly different' from the rest of us. The result is, unexpectedly, that Madonna may have emerged from this tell-all with little damage done. The myth-busting, for example her early days in New York which were far less waif-and-stray than she has always made out, has already been covered by biographers such as Andrew Morton, and her famous temperament - the iciness and the tantrums - is there everytime you open a newspaper or magazine. She would tell you herself, because she doesn't understand why not to. I enjoyed the vignettes - the 'random incidents' that Madonna herself has alluded to when recounting those years and which Christopher seems to have been able to attract too. No amount of money or fame seems to inure the cast of celebrities to things not going according to plan, and that is interesting. If the author emerges as subservient and lacking the wit to get out at the earliest opportunity then this has to be balanced against why he may have stayed: Madonna, as she has tried to project in her work towards millions, helped him form his identity, and if the skewed morality of what followed from that is at times funny and at times hard to understand, then it's clear how important this is to people. You only have to look at Madonna's latest change of image, to see how enthralled people still are with hers. Insightful look into Madonna's life (29 August 2008)This is an entertaining look at Madonna's life through the eyes of her obviously embittered brother Christopher. It's probably Christopher's bitchier comments about his sister that are the most revealing. You get the sense of a classically complicated brother-sister relationship. Very tellingly at the end Christopher relates a conversatin with his father where he calls himself a 'Loser'. I came away feeling sorry for Christopher, and thinking that it wouldn't be that hard for his older sister to forgive his irritating ways and take him back into the fold. There's no real depth to the book, and you leave it feeling as slutty as if you've just read a back catalogue of Heat magazine. However, it's grossly intriguing nonetheless. | |
