My favorite a customer review at Amazon has always been about O’Neill’s autobiography!
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[bold]Stupidity or Monstrosity/Surviving This Book II[/bold]
This book is good, very readible. Jennifer is gorgeous, talented & has the luck of the stars following her everywhere, BUT . . . gads what a mess of a person psychologically. I mean nothing is explained for her behavior and incompetence, especially in regards to her main victims, her children. Didn't many, many miscarriages give her the hint, DON'T HAVE CHILDREN? And in any age and time her disbelief of her daughter's abuse by one of her husbands is a crime alone. And then to send her son by the same abuser to live with him (an admitted felon when she married him) after she was informed what he did to her daughter? And the fact that no one can stand her for long, not her brother, or her first ex-husband and his new wife who tried to help her abused daughter, or ANYONE? And then to keep having children, throwing them to the current nanny (or whoever) , some of which were sexually aggressive towards Jennifer herself? And to marry one after the other every time her hormones said GO? If she wasn't so unbelievibly lucky (not accounting for her beauty... lots of us are gorgeous but don't have her golden touch) in the real world outside of Hollywood, she would be HOMELESS right now!
At the end of the book, she throws herself at yet another man, marries again with little or no investigation, making him the 8th, thereby victimizing her last son to another 10 years of abuse, and she now claims to know God. Okay.
What is she leaving OUT? That she is deaf, dumb and blind? That she has been a total alcoholic for years and years? That she has such an abrasive personality that no one can stand her but animals? Or that she is just plain crazy with a knack for making money every time she turns around? Why doesn't she tell us what really happened?
Still, this is an amazing book! It is as entertaining for what is says as for what it doesn't say! Anyone who reads it is going to long to know the truth. I give her credit for her writing; it's good. I just wonder about WHY? No one who reads this and gets to the end where she claims to have found God and after all that she has done in her past, has not had one day of self reflection or gotten a good psychiatrist with all her money, but just gets "Born Again", "married again" and expects us to believe that she and her minor children are ever going to be all right?
I have one guarantee, she will be fine, her children need intervention. Let the horsies have this girl!
