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4.18 AVERAGE
4.18 AVERAGE
A very candid read about Jane Fonda's life. It really helps the reader take a step back and reflect on her own life and how it can be lived better and more strongly. Having been raised in a different era, I felt very sympathetic to many of her travials with body image, level of self worth and self respect. It's heartwarming to know she continues to grow as a person and writes about it in order to help others continue to grow as well.
I had never read any of her books until I saw her on The Joy Behar show and just had to read something more about her. A fascinating woman.
I had never read any of her books until I saw her on The Joy Behar show and just had to read something more about her. A fascinating woman.
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Wow! I really loved the book because of all the different layers and insight. I was not prepared for her life lessons and she really grew in my eyes. I mostly knew her from ”Grace and Frankie” (Netflix), a series I love, but she is so much more. What a woman!
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This is going to be the first autobiography that I do not finish. It was not a fun experience. It feels like the story is more about the various men in her life, and how they affect her, and less so about her. The first 12 chapters are particularly painful. Things get more interesting once she starts getting more involved in the Vietnam war, but it also seems to revolve around whoever she's dating or her father. My library hold is about to expire, I can't renew it because there are people behind me, so I'm just going to DNF it now so I can move on to my next book.
I'm quite sure Ms. Fonda has led a very interesting life, but the way this book is written doesn't do it justice. Maybe I'll come back and revisit, but I got other much more interesting autobiography is lined up so if I do, it won't be for a while.
I'm quite sure Ms. Fonda has led a very interesting life, but the way this book is written doesn't do it justice. Maybe I'll come back and revisit, but I got other much more interesting autobiography is lined up so if I do, it won't be for a while.
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Jane Fonda is a fascinating human with an extraordinary history, and in this memoir, she has shared the first "three acts" of her life in this very hefty 21.5 hour audiobook/600 page book. Yet, it is a captivating read, and tight and well-edited. The book starts in childhood, which is often unbelievable, and takes us right into acting, activism, marriages, all with beautiful self-reflection and healing throughout.
This book was published in 2005, and does not feel very dated reading it even 20 years later. I was entertained, scandalized, googled constantly when she referenced a movie or person I was unfamiliar with. I listened to the audiobook, narrated by Jane Fonda herself, while following along in the book. I loved there were photos throughout the book, not just a single glossy photo section in the middle. So I was able to enjoy the photographs in real time as she spoke about different occasions or movies or people or haircuts. (Obsessed with her 1970s chop!)
This book isn't just a memoir, it's a call to activism. And her sharing all the hiccups, messy parts, learning, unlearning, and relearning of her activism is so inspiring. There's also long long chapters of the book digging into the Vietnam war, from multiple perspectives, and so it's also a fascinating history lesson from someone who lived it.
I didn't know much of anything about Jane Fonda before reading this book, just a glimmer of a memory of the Jane Fonda Workout leg warmers. I'm so glad she shared her story in such detail, with such heart and vulnerability.
"On the one hand, films can put out powerful images and messages that have a deep impact on people; on the other hand they are only images, not actions in themselves. There's something fundamentally superficial surrounding the profession -- not the art of it but the celebrity, the self-promotion, the rarefied atmosphere. I'd had it all my life, first through my father, then on my own, so I hardly noticed it."
This book was published in 2005, and does not feel very dated reading it even 20 years later. I was entertained, scandalized, googled constantly when she referenced a movie or person I was unfamiliar with. I listened to the audiobook, narrated by Jane Fonda herself, while following along in the book. I loved there were photos throughout the book, not just a single glossy photo section in the middle. So I was able to enjoy the photographs in real time as she spoke about different occasions or movies or people or haircuts. (Obsessed with her 1970s chop!)
This book isn't just a memoir, it's a call to activism. And her sharing all the hiccups, messy parts, learning, unlearning, and relearning of her activism is so inspiring. There's also long long chapters of the book digging into the Vietnam war, from multiple perspectives, and so it's also a fascinating history lesson from someone who lived it.
I didn't know much of anything about Jane Fonda before reading this book, just a glimmer of a memory of the Jane Fonda Workout leg warmers. I'm so glad she shared her story in such detail, with such heart and vulnerability.
"On the one hand, films can put out powerful images and messages that have a deep impact on people; on the other hand they are only images, not actions in themselves. There's something fundamentally superficial surrounding the profession -- not the art of it but the celebrity, the self-promotion, the rarefied atmosphere. I'd had it all my life, first through my father, then on my own, so I hardly noticed it."