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World Hotels - And I Don't Want to Live This Life: A Mother's Story of Her Daughter's Murder
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Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 306.8743092
EAN: 9780449911419
ISBN: 0449911411
Label: Ballantine Books
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 408
Publication Date: 1996-09-29
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Release Date: 1996-09-29
Studio: Ballantine Books
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Editorial Reviews:
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For most of us, it was just another horrible headline. But for Deborah Spungen, the mother of Nancy, who was stabbed to death at the Chelsea Hotel, it was both a relief and a tragedy. Here is the incredible story of an infant who never stopped screaming, a toddler who attacked people, a teenager addicted to drugs, violence, and easy sex, a daughter completely out of control--who almost destroyed her parents' marriage and the happiness of the rest of her family.
"Honest and moving...Her painful tale is engrossing."
WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD
From the Paperback edition.
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Summary: Really sad
Comment: Very sad book, but inspirational to those who have had experience in dealing with mental illness in their family. One of the main reasons that Debbie wrote this book to is help others who have dealt with a murder in their family. Nancy was such an interesting person. It was nice to see a book written about her that makes her out to be so much more than Sid Vicious's girlfriend.
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Summary: Good read
Comment: I liked this book. I read it because I liked the movie Sid and Nancy. This book is about a mother's struggle with an out of control child. It's a good read.
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Summary: HEART-WRENCHING
Comment: THIS BOOK WAS VERY INSIGHTFUL, BUT I'M STILL LEFT WITH QUESTIONS ABOUT THE MOTHER. TO LIVE LIFE LIKE NANCY DID, HAD TO BE TERRIBLE. ALSO, TO LIVE LIFE AS HER MOTHER AND FATHER COULD NOT HAVE BEEN EASY. IT'S ALMOST UNIMAGINEABLE, BUT THE STORY SEEMED VERY REALISTIC. IF ONE HASN'T BEEN THROUGH IT, IT'S HARD TO UNDERSTAND.
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Summary: Not As Good As Jonny Lydon's Book
Comment: I loved the book by johnny Lydon [Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs]
I bought this book after reading Johnny Lydon's book but this one was a let down.
Sid Vicious was a hot looking punk star and lots of girls (me to) still love him.
I read a little of this book but it's mostly lady who gets pregnant and she complains and my kid drives me nuts and i wish i had a abortion, blah blah my kid's going to the funny farm,lol,if it wasn't so full of "I this" and "I that"and 'I wanted to go to college, but she was in my way" it could've maybe been a little interesting.
Whining and complaining just turned me off and I doubt I'll ever finish it. It's like "Diary of a whiny housewife".
If anybody knows where I can geta copy of Ann Beverly's Family Album please help.
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Summary: Morbid Story of Ignorance in Dealing with A Special Needs Child
Comment: This book is very dark and full of contradiction, written by a haunted, troubled author about her daughter who had deep emotional problems, a constant hunger for love , terrible insecurity.The child suffers from feelings of inferiority. A daughter who strove toward academic achievement to win approval of her parents.
The book unnecessarily documents the affair of the author with a married man.The author includes her lengthy and boring suspicions of her husband's infidelity as well as lots of filler on her troubled marriage.
Although the author writes deep feelings and thoughts, the book fails to fill in the entire picture. It leaves the reader frustrated that so many very pertinent issues are not addressed substantially. She provides psychiatric assessments of the child by a few psychiatrists, but all fails and it needn't have. And here's why...
The child is put on Thorazine by a qualified psychiatrist. The author takes the child off of it. Not giving psyche drugs a fair trial. The possibility of benefiting from this one medication is taken away from the child. I wondered how and why would a parent unjustifiably halt a very possible cure for her own child! She says it's because she found her daughter sleepy and groggy. "This wasn't my Nancy".
Initially all medications of this type have a very, very sedating effect, and the child wasn't on it long enough for the prescribing doctor to titrate the medication to the ideal dosage. This was a chance to live more normal life for the child and it was taken away from her by her own mother.
Enter Dr. Spungeon. Exit hope for the sick child.
I found this book irritating.
There's hope for us all. For Nancy too, had she been allowed medical treatment. I don't believe Ms. Spungeon had studied medicine or psychiatry, she discontinued Thorazine at the expense of the child's life.The psychiatric and medical providers did not fail the child.Her mother did !
This is a very morbid book, weakly written and very contradicting.
What could have been a story with a happy ending is a story which concludes in the murder of her ill child.
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