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4 of 4 customers found the following review helpful:
 He clearly didnt learn much from his big sister!, 2008-09-29
This book gets 3 stars simply because he's writing from the point of view of somoene who knows Madonna intimately & you get a better perspective of who she is, unlikle most bios written about Madonna where the author typically has no connection to her whatsoever. Regardless, the attempt by her brother to write a tell-all was lackluster & didnt quite live up to the hype.
If his goal was to make Madonna look bad, it didnt work if you ask me---i didnt feel one bit sorry for him throughout most of this book and found myself taking Madonnas side more often than not. He writes extensively on how often Madonna helped him, opened doors for him & introduced him to her glitterati of celeberity connections. Yet all he wanted to do was party & snort coke. Too bad Chris you werent resourceful like your sister & took those connections and turned them into something big. The part in the book where his interior design biz is taking off and Demi Moore asks him to decorate her house is a perfect example of how quickly he was able to screw up golden oppportunities. instead of shopping at the high end stores Demi Moore is accustomed to, he goes & buys a bunch of stuff from IKEA, has it delivered to her house and then sends her the bill. When she isnt amused, he chalks it up to her "not getting the joke". Needless to say she didnt use him.
Madonna is business minded. that is how she conducts her career & why she is still on top. Too bad you didnt take notes Chris, you might still have that interior design business. He writes about not using contracts when doing interior design jobs for Madonna because she was his sister--yet she always used contracts & was all business with him from the jump. He never took the hint that it was time to start getting professional. Family or no family if youre running a business you draw up contracts. & when he does finally start using them w/ Madonna, its more out of immature spite than proffessionalism. & yes Chris you do/did have a drug problem despite what the doctors may have told you. How can you write about snorting coke w/ Naomi Campbell & Kate Moss on one page & claim to not have a coke problem on another? Oh i remember--you did "bumps" from a key & not lines. lol. Madonna tried to help him kick the habit, offered to pay for rehab & he didnt take it. Oh well!
Yes Madonna is insecure. Yes Madonna is a control freak. Yes Madonna is tight with a dollar. Yes Madonna can be a self-serving b****. But arent all bigtime major superstars? Sheesh they dont get to the top blowing all their money, being nice to everyone & letting people get away with sh**. Like someone else here said---it is, what it is! If he was smart he wouldve learned something from his sister and made something of his self. He wouldna had to write this damn book.
1 of 3 customers found the following review helpful:
 tacky and poorly written , 2008-09-21
I'm always down for some good celebrity gossip but "Life with my sister Madonna" was a yawn fest. Christopher Ciccone assumes the reader will blindly trust his credibility solely based on his position as Madonna's brother. Rather, credibility is nonexistant as it becomes increasingly apparent throughout the (poorly written) book that it was written as a melodramatic display of sibling rivalry (example: C. Ciccone's statement in the first chapter that he was his mother's favorite child - I recall using that same line on my sister when I was 6 years old). Don't waste your time, don't waste your money.
No insight into Madonna here, 2008-09-19
I bought this book because I thought Christopher was going to give me a lot of insight into Madonna's personality and what she was thinking when she did certain things (Sex book, certain videos etc...). Well, he didn't.
This book is a good read though. Once you forgive Christopher for misleading you and agree to read a novel based on his life. Toward the middle I actually enjoyed myself. Then it all went down hill from there. Christopher hates Guy. Guy is a homophobe I guess. Madonna isn't all that much into the gay scene anymore and he's pretty pissed off about that also (Dude, she's 50 and has two kids...people change) and he sure does complain alot about her lack of paying him. He says she's a crazy person who believes she's the center of the world. In her defense, wouldn't you be if you were famous for so long? She can't recall anything other than that. And people who are laidback don't usually last over 25 years. Christopher part kisses booty and part complains.
I find his part on the "Butt Art" he produced to be gross.
But there are other parts about famous people and their love affairs with coke. Quick, easy read.
 Not juicy at all!, 2008-09-16
This book was somewhat boring. I got it because he teased during a Howard Stern interview that there was some good stuff in the book. Not really. Other than a few drug-using confirmations of famous people, this book is not the juicy story that he was indicating it would be. Madonna is somewhat boring.
2 of 2 customers found the following review helpful:
 A sinfully guilty pleasure..., 2008-09-16
W-o-w. The line between love and hate is razor thin, isn't it? I wasn't terribly surprised by the things he wrote, he was mostly confirming all the bad things we've heard about her over the years. I don't like to believe negative press but in her case a lot of it is, unfortunately, true. I felt guilty reading it because I think that matters concerning the family should be resolved accordingly. Apparently he let way too much build up for way too long...and then exploded. I don't agree with the fact that he dragged some other celebrities through the mud in the process. Nevertheless, I wish Christopher well--he certainly seems like an intelligent and talented person.
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