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Shirley Jones: A Memoir (2013)

by Shirley Jones(Favorite Author)

2.95 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1611738687 (ISBN13: 9781611738681)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Center Point

review 1: The positive about this book is that it brought back good memories from the years I watched The Partridge Family and followed the careers of David and Shaun Cassidy. I had no idea Shirley Jones had a lucrative acting career before The Partridge Family, so it was good learning about her start in show business and even her relationship with Jack Cassidy. But too many things in this book made me lose a degree of respect for Jones and some things were better left unsaid. Also, I am not sure why so many celebrities litter their books with cliches, but it is annoying and distracting.
review 2: If you leave out Jones' descriptions of her sex life and her talk of how well endowed the men in her life are (including her sons - ick!), you have a decent, if not gripping, m... moreemoir of show business. She tells her life story in a very basic, chronological way, without much insight into the real process of performing in a Broadway show or making a movie or television series. She's not the born story teller that Shirley MacLaine is, for instance, and her book mostly reads much like a grandmother sitting around telling about her life. Still, the book was interesting for anyone familiar with Jones and her career or who is obsessed with THE PARTRIDGE FAMILY (guilty). This book sinks from a 3-star to 2-star rating because of the raunchy bits. I'm not a prude and it's not because I view Jones as angelic Mrs. Partridge that I found the sexual passages in the book distasteful. It was more because I felt they were put in there for shock value and to help sell the book. I don't doubt what she writes is true, but I really don't need to know details of her husband's genitals or the method she uses to masturbate or a fairly graphic description of the threesome she had in the early 70s. I can only imagine how much her children (and grandchildren) cringed when this book was released. less

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