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unSweetined

3.24 of 5 stars 3.24  ·  rating details  ·  665 ratings  ·  149 reviews
How Rude!

Once Danny Tanner's bubbly daughter on America's favorite family sitcom, Jodie Sweetin takes readers behind the scenes of Full House and shares her terrifying -- and uplifting -- real-life story of addiction and recovery.
Jodie Sweetin grew up in front of America, melting our hearts and making us laugh for eight years as the cherub-faced middle child on Full

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Hardcover, 256 pages
Published November 3rd 2009 by Simon Spotlight Entertainment
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Kim
I saw this on the new release shelf at the library and couldn't resist. (Don't judge me!!) Probably like most people who picked up this book, I really wanted to hear the dirt about Jodie Sweetin's "Full House" days. There were one or two chapters at the beginning that made me laugh with their references to certain episodes of the show, and I always enjoyed when members of the cast made cameos in the book later on (like John Stamos, Jodie Sweetin and one of the Olsen twins passed out...more
Peter Salomon
I don't tend to read 'personality' type books. Or 'addiction' books. Or, for that matter, 'memoirs' So, really, this was not something I'd usually read. But it was there at the library and the other book I was reading was proving slow to get into. So...unSweetined by Jodie Sweetin.

Read it in a couple of days, absolutely intense and absorbing. Very emotional with some incredibly thoughtful and powerful passages. Not at all what I was expecting.

But, really, the reason I de...more
Rebecca
Ohmigod, how awesome was this book? This is Jodie "Stephanie Tanner" Sweetin's autobiography! So you know it's going to kick ass already! I got this book at the perfect time, spending time in SF with my sister and it was a great "read out loud" book. I read the first 2 chapters out loud and they were pretty boring as they were about her childhood and her getting into FULL HOUSE, so we actually skipped like 5 chapters to get to the good stuff. If you don't know, when she was i...more
Domesticatedwhitetrash
A very quick read, started and finished in about three hours. Always heard bits and pieces in the media about "Stephanie Tanner" turning into a junkie, and wanted to hear the story from her point of view. It wasn't bad, but nothing groundbreaking here. She keeps the "tales of drug horror" fairly clean...I was expecting (wanting?) to hear something a bit more graphic than puking/blacking out stories. It seemed fairly tame compared to some of the stories/experiences I've wi...more
NCPL Teenzone
This quick read is the autobiography of actress Jodie Sweetin, known to the world as Stephanie Tanner from Full House. However in recent years, she's been in the media spotlight for her admissions of alcohol and drug abuse. Beyond her stories from Full House, struggles fitting in during the school years, Sweetin reveals secrets behind her struggles with addiction. In fact she admits that while touring colleges to speak about sober living, she was still secretly abusing drugs. "How Rude!"...more
Jenny
I was a huge fan of the show Full House when I was growing up. Even as an adult I can appreciate the family lessons, as corny as they are. It also brings back many memories from my childhood. I was the age of Stephanie Tanner so I felt like I could relate to her character, and I grew up with her on Full House. I also looked up to D.J., played by Candice Cameron, just as both Stephanie Tanner, and the character in real life, Jodie Sweetin, did. So it's no surprise that when I found out Jodie Swee...more
Jodi
Jodi rated it 4 of 5 stars  ·  review of another edition
Recommends it for: women
Shelves: memoirs, non-fiction
I loved Full House when I was young and watched it pretty regularly! When I saw this book at the library, of course I picked it up! I had not really heard about what happened to little Stephanie - of course we know what several others from the show have been doing but I did not know much about Jodie Sweetin. Wow! It is pretty hard to imagine her as a meth addict, addicted to cocaine, and being an alcoholic! Even her swearing and admitting to sleeping around was hard for me to wrap my head a...more
Orsolya
I will let the cat out of the bag: I was a “Full House” fan. Furthermore, I picked a favorite daughter on the cheesy sitcom. Stephanie Judith Tanner. There was a time when I wanted to meet Jodie Sweetin (the actress who played Stephanie) and be her friend (I was young, forgive me). Well, that bubble was certainly popped…

Jodie Sweetin’s initial voice in the introduction and first chapter was instantly weak and annoying (for lack of a better term) as she tried to portray herself as the...more
Paul
The lives of child actors have always fascinated me. They seem to grow up in ways that few of us can ever imagine. Their lives intersect with the adult world in strange ways: They have a job, they make money, they have responsibilities, and strangest of all, fame. I can't imagine dealing with any of those things as a child. but I suppose if it's the only thing you know, then it's just your life.

I told myself a couple of years ago that if a child actor came out with a memoir that I woul...more
Romy
Romy rated it 3 of 5 stars
I don't usually read books like this but I was over at my friends house the other day who happens to be a huge Full House fan who basically handed me this book to me and said and I quote “you HAVE to read this book OMG it is so good”, me being me I couldn’t let her down and say no so I took it even though I have a huge TBR pile at the moment. I’d been sitting on this book for a week before I picked it up after receiving yet another text message from my friend asking me if I have read it yet, so ...more
Katie
Oh Stephanie Tanner, how far you fell, and how far you have come. For those of you unfamiliar with The Tanners or Jodie Sweetin, this author is famous for her 8 season portrayal of Stephanie, the precoscious middle child on Full House. If you were an avid fan of the show, and cried at the finale when Michelle fell off her horse (spoiler alert), then this book, or at the very least, the first third of this book, is for you. I understand that the point of the book was not supposed to be an indepth...more
Heather
Here’s the deal: Jodie Sweetin obviously wrote very little of this book. I truly feel for her ghostwriter, Jon Warech. But I don’t agree with his theory that throwing in wanton exclamation points and constant parentheses-ed observations makes the text feel more like a 29-year-old cokehead wrote it. They don’t. They’re just annoying.

The story was solid enough for the first 2/3, but then, suddenly, it became Every Other Recovery Book Ever Written.”Every day I strive to stay sober! I will...more
Sara
I picked up this book because I loved Full House when I was younger. I especially loved Stephanie Tanner's character in the early years. I even favored her over the Olsen twins. So when I started reading I enjoyed hearing about her younger years and the behind the scene look of Full House. That being said I didn't really like the name dropping that happened throughout this book. Maybe it was just me but it seemed she was trying to dish about what celebrities came to the Full House set and who ho...more
Chris
Full House was probably my favorite show because I grew up with it. I always loved steph and learning more about her in real life was interesting. I read the book in one day and I couldn't put it down so it was good.
I think some of the mistakes she made were too excessive and her perspective seemed sometimes selfish and ignorant. It seemed like she just made her life way too complicated than it had to be and sometimes I got angry at her when I read because her behavior was just unnaccept...more
Cindy
This is me playing the world's smallest violin for Jodie Sweetin. As someone who has had first hand experience with those with drug/alcohol problems I can really sympathize with people. However this book made me detest her and really give two ishes about her and her drug problem.

Though I do have to say I loved the section on blaming her biological parents. Yet turning around and saying everyone has a choice.

I could not stand the underwhine that was present in this bio a...more
Jennifer Layton
I saw Jodie Sweetin come out on TV with her drug addiction when she first admitted having a problem. This book gives you the grimy details. It is not about behind the scenes at Full House, it is Jodie’s memoir of drug addiction. This book may not be the best written or most interesting, but to me it was worth reading. Jodie and I are close in age and she had always interested me. I think the main problem with her story is that, like many reviewers pointed out, it’s not over yet. She definitely s...more
Jenn Edward
I absolutely loved this book. I actually bought it last year but wasn't really into the reading thing, I started it then never finished. Full House was 'my show' when I was younger and today I have the whole series on DVD and couldn't wait to read the book whenever I got around to it. A year later and I finally got a round to it.

I bought this book not knowing anything thing what was going on in her life. I saw the cover of the magazine and was shocked and happy, shocked because I never...more
Gus
While the book was interesting, I'm a little skeptical about Jodie's reason for writing it. She flat out says that she's a liar throughout the book and was cracked out during her sobriety speeches that she gave to college students. She also talks about how desperate she is for money. That, along with the fact that she relapses about 1000 times, makes me think that maybe she wrote this for money for drugs. I also thought it should have been a bit more graphic and detailed. Basically the whole thi...more
Christy
OK, I read this because I wanted an easy read and my brother got it for me as a Full House throwback.

The toughest thing about reading it is knowing that Sweetin is still in recovery and will likely relapse (as her book details a dozen or so relapses). She has a baby and two divorces under her belt by 26 and she doesn't seem to have learned anything.

Reading it is like having one of those friends who constantly makes bad decisions and seems unable to connect the cause and effec...more
Nicky
I am always interested in reading people's stories to see why they make the choices that they do. From a completely objective perspective, drug and alcohol additions can be so confusing- why do people continue to do something that hurts them and those they love?
Having said that, the memoir genre is rather limited, because self reflection is a tricky thing, and even when showing our bad sides, appearances and sales numbers count.
This book was just another data point for me. Not par...more
Kristina
When I saw that the library had this book, I had to read it since I was a huge Full House fan growing up. :) It was a fast read, but was mainly about how Jodie got into alcohol and drugs, then went into rehab, then relapsed, then became sober again, then relapsed. . .(repeat 3 times). She talked about giving anti-drug speeches at universities to earn money for her drug and lifestyle habits. Although she seems to be doing better with her addictions, I couldn't help but think that this was just an...more
Carrie Ann
This book was obviously written because Sweetin needs the money, which in of itself is not bad, but she also has nothing of interest to say and what she does say is done in a rather mundane, uninteresting way. The book recounts the story of her drug/alcohol problems, but it lacks depth and insight into those issues. The book is clearly written to show the author in a particular way to garner a particular public image for herself, but I have a feeling the truth is further away from what the book ...more
Laura
It's not often I read a book that starts with F You. However, I kept reading and found the book quite interesting. I always loved Stephanie best on Full House since we're the same age and I felt a real connection with her because of that as a little girl.

The book talked about the trials in Jodie's life and what lead up to them and what helped her make important changes. Our lives are so incredibly different.

I enjoyed reading about the Full House cast stories and seeing...more
Candace
I just did not like this book. I've read other biographies/autobiographies of people with addictions, and I've always ended up either feeling sympathetic about their plights or happy and hopeful for their future successes with overcoming their problems. With this book I didn't feel either of those things. She gives me no reason to think that there won't be many more relapses in the future, and while I appreciate her honesty in describing her many transgressions, it got to the point where (fo...more
Shannon
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monica
Before you judge, this was a Christmas present. I also happen to go way back with Jodie Sweetin (like elementary school--DID YOU SEE ME BRAGGING, RIGHT THEN?! Who do I think I am?) and this was just a way for me to see what she's been up to the last 15 years. Apparently, a lot of drugs. I thought this was a little PG for a tell-all about drug abuse, but I suppose she wants some sort of B-movie career after all is said and done. Overall, it was super bland and I'm not sure who to blame: her or he...more
Kim
As many of us did, I grew up watching TGIF which included Full House as one of the shows in its lineup so when this book came out I was fairly interested in reading it. I hadn't heard much about what had happened to her after Full House closed so the news about meth and all the other crazy partying she got into was not really shocking (as it seems to be a path many child actors go down) as it was a disheartnening. Even as I Kindled my way through this book I just could not picture her doing all ...more
Jen
Jen rated it 1 of 5 stars
So disappointed with this book. I knew it wasn't going to be an amazing read but I still had high hopes for it. I LOVED watching Full House when I was little (and I still catch the reruns every once in a while). Maybe I thought there was going to be more about the Full House cast in the book? I'm not sure.

There was too much random namedropping and little side stories put in places they didn't fit.

However, there were two interesting facts I learned:
The sho...more
Karen
This book was passed along to me from my friend Nicole, who is great at giving me salacious celebrity autobiographies. Jodie Sweetin’s life is such a train wreck, that you don’t even have to like her or have ever seen an episode of “Full House” to find this book totally engrossing. This is the perfect trashy beach read.

I am giving this four stars on Goodread...not because it's actually quality reading, but that it was good at being the type of book is actually is...hope that makes ...more
Kristen
As a lover of Full House, I was excited to read this novel. I didn't realize the extent of Jodie's battle with drugs and alcohol. It was a very interesting read - I loved the glimpse into her world of Full House filming and later full time partying. I applaud Jodie for her courage in writing this and battling her addictions. I admire her dedication to her daughter and wish her the best. I hope to see her in future film and tv roles so she may share her talents with the world.
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Jodie Lee Ann Sweetin is an American actress, best known for her role as "Stephanie Tanner" on the long running television sitcom Full House.



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