unSweetined

Jan 17, 2010 Kim rated it 2 of 5 stars

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 drunk in a b...more

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Dec 13, 2011 Orsolya rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: library, other, hollywood

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 damaged and...more 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 damaged and recovering drug and alcohol addict. Rather than garner pity, Jodie comes off as rather cocky and unapologetic about her ways. Clearly, she lacks a level of modesty.

Sweetin continues to ride this train and picks up the “woe is me” attitude characteristic of most child actors who take the drug/alcohol/rehab route. Sweetin blames the development of her addictions on the childhood star syndrome of having begged for normalcy, not knowing who she was, and the teasing of peers. Speaking frankly, I don’t feel pity for Sweetin or any child stars who “got teased” and “wanted to be normal”. Sweetin wasn’t forced by show parents to become an actress and chose the lifestyle, so it doesn’t deem a pity party. She knew what she was getting into. Moreover, MANY children were teased and had confidence issues during childhood and yet don’t turn to drugs so this can’t instantly be an excuse. My father passed away when I was merely 4 years old and I was physically and emotionally abused and neglected by my mother, but you don’t see me in rehab. Anyway, enough of my soapbox and back to the review…

The first few sections of Unsweetined focus on Jodie’s days on Full House. Full House fans will find some satisfaction in juicy, tabloid-esque stories regarding the actors and individual episodes of the series. Although I found these stories to be interesting, an average reader wouldn’t necessarily agree. They are more targeted towards Full House or early-Sweetin fans.

Unsweetined is written on a rather simple level (in terms of language and text); but Sweetin does, at moments, let little positive personality shine through by making humorous and sarcastic statements. Other small facts also emerge such as Sweetin “dating” Ryan Gosling briefly when she was 13 (after a cameo appearance on the Mickey Mouse Club). Sadly, the reader still doesn’t get a full-picture of who she is and is marred by her whining and blame games.

Recharging the rather flat memoir was a shocking revelation about midway through the book. Gripping and surprising, this saves (albeit briefly) even the most bored reader. If this was a fictional novel, one would applaud the author at this juncture.

My major quip with Unsweetined (as briefly aforementioned) was Sweetin’s weak voice which sounded like a child lacking depth. Often times, she sounds like a rich, stupid, druggie child/adult. In fact, the book blurb describes Jody: “Out of boredom and anxiety, she slid into a downward spiral…” That described it perfectly and I don’t pity negative consequences out of boredom. Sweetin seems almost proud of her ways (of fooling friends and family, passing drug test, etc) versus admitting that she has a character flaw and is a weak individual to follow this path. Grow up. A minor issue was her lack of mentioning dates or years which made the chronology and sequencing regarding her age/events a bit clouded.

Overall, Unsweetined is not the most gripping memoir and is best for an ex-Full House fan. It seems more like Sweetin needed to write her story down for her own recovery but this doesn’t necessarily mean that outside readers will be riveted. The book isn’t horrible, per se, but Sweetin still has a long work to traverse (both as an author and person).

Oh and for the record, Sweetin admits to having “hung out with” and using the cast of the MTV reality show “The Hills” to get into Hollywood clubs. Forget drugs, she needs rehab based on the fact that she thought it was cool to hang out with Spencer Pratt.
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May 20, 2013 Samantha rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: autobiography, drugs-drug-use, child-star, addict, hollywood, show-business, memoir

Having grown up loving the TV show Full House I couldn't resist reading this book detailing the struggles Jodie Sweetin had concerning drugs and alcohol.

Sweetin is brutally honest about the drugs she consumed and the party lifestyle she lived beginning while she was still in high school. She takes readers through some of her lowest, most heartbreaking moments and delivers us at a happy ending in which she's sober and caring for her young daughter after having rid her life of bad influences.

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Nov 25, 2012 Laura rated it 3 of 5 stars

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Apr 03, 2012 Kelly Cordes rated it 4 of 5 stars

This is the first non fiction book I have ever read by my own choosing. I think everyone reviewing this has been honest in saying that we were all Full House fans, myself included. Stephanie was always my favorite, I even read the Stephanie books (which honestly was the first series of books I got into, bringing me here after all these years.) and went through a phase when I wanted to name my daughter Jodie when I grew up. I debated whether I wanted to read this, if I was ready to hear that some...more This is the first non fiction book I have ever read by my own choosing. I think everyone reviewing this has been honest in saying that we were all Full House fans, myself included. Stephanie was always my favorite, I even read the Stephanie books (which honestly was the first series of books I got into, bringing me here after all these years.) and went through a phase when I wanted to name my daughter Jodie when I grew up. I debated whether I wanted to read this, if I was ready to hear that someone I looked up to as a kid fell so hard into a lifestyle that I disagree with so much but I've made a date to quit smoking on May 15 -a decision I've made very recently and am nervous to come to- and I realized that addictions are all the same and maybe reading Jodie's story will somehow prepare me for something that I know will be hard.

So enough of my personal monologue and onto the review. I can't give a star rating on Jodie's life or choices but I can on how the book is written and whether or not I think it was a story worth reading. My answer is Yes, this book is worth reading. I have always been interested in Hollywood and the idea of a world that we only pretend to understand through tabloids. This book laid it out in a way that I could read and understand with just enough of the gory details. It was a nice, PG 13 version of a very dark reality of Hollywood.

But I would only recommend this book to an optimistic person who truly wants to see good in people and believe that people can change and someone who truly wants to see Jodie succeed. If you are not one of those people, you would read this book and think that Jodie is not sober at all and this book is an actress and her ghostwriter telling a story of how easy it is to lie by making more lies to fund her habit while making people like her again and getting her back in the spotlight. You would also think that Jodie is spoiled with a whole lot of excuses and First World Problems.

I, on the other hand, want to believe that Jodie was a normal kid who had normal fears, hopes and uncertainties and in her youth made some really bad choices. All while looking to be a normal kid she only looked to the differences in her life but couldn't see that her fears, hopes and uncertainties were the same as everyone else's. I appreciate Jodie's honesty, although I wish there was a more distinct timeline to follow. Some of the story jumped around a bit but that's okay.

I hope Jodie is still sober and I'm glad she's getting rid of that jerk second husband of hers. I'm glad she shared her story and I hope she is living happily ever after. (less)

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Jan 28, 2012 Peter Adam rated it 5 of 5 stars

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 decided to actually write...more

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Jul 30, 2011 Rebecca rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: tv

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 in high school and co...more

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Mar 22, 2010 Jane Cleaver rated it 2 of 5 stars

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 witnessed in my real life...more

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Dec 05, 2009 NCPL Teenzone rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: non-fiction

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!"

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Nov 27, 2009 Jenny rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: read-in-2009

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 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 Sweetin was writing a memoir I eagerly awaited its release. In fact, I bought it the day after it came out (I had school Tuesday night so that wasn't an option) and I read the entire book that night, lol! It worked out that the client I was supposed to see that night canceled. ;)

Prior to reading her memoir, Unsweetined, I knew a little about Jodie Sweetin from what I had read in magazines. I knew she was a recovering Meth addict, that she'd had a child, and that she was on her second marriage. I also knew the first marriage broke up in part to her drug use. It was so interesting to learn more about all of this in detail, though.

Unsweetined is a typical celebrity memoir with an also somewhat typical descent-into-drugs story. If you're looking for complete originality on either of those fronts, this isn't it. But that's not what I was expecting anyway. I was just curious to learn more about this actress, her life, and her time on Full House. And this book did that. She talked candidly about the extent of her drug use and the following hypocrisy when she toured the country as a motivational speaker for overcoming drugs, when, in fact, she was still using. Despite reading a little about her in US Weekly Magazine, I didn't realize quite how intensely far she'd fallen. That's why I say she spoke candidly, but even then, she gives the disclaimer that she doesn't talk about all of her worst moments. Even those are too much for her to share.

As a mental health professional, I found the different factors she attributed for her addictions very throught-provoking and conceivable. I also learned some facts about her that I did not know -- I won't spoil them for those of you who don't already know. Sweetin also wrote about her time on Full House and included stories, some surprising, that included the other Full House actors.

This was a quick and engaging read, but still well-written. There were also randomly made humorous remarks that made me laugh -- like the part where she wrote about some well-known actors she was on the Mickey Mouse Club with and how none of them made it anywhere after that... (HAHA). If you were ever a fan of Jodie Sweetin, Full House, or just enjoy learning about the lives of child actors, I would recommend this book.(less)

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Mar 03, 2013 Jasmine rated it 4 of 5 stars

The book as a whole was well written and put together nicely, however, I did have mixed feelings about Sweetin as a person. It is definitely easy to understand what she was feeling and going through but she came across as whiny and it seemed that she used her story to gather pity from the world. Many times she contradicts herself, for example, she said that when beginning high school she was always labelled as someone who thought she was better than others when really she would rather trade plac...more The book as a whole was well written and put together nicely, however, I did have mixed feelings about Sweetin as a person. It is definitely easy to understand what she was feeling and going through but she came across as whiny and it seemed that she used her story to gather pity from the world. Many times she contradicts herself, for example, she said that when beginning high school she was always labelled as someone who thought she was better than others when really she would rather trade places with them. She goes on to say, two paragraphs later, "on the second day of tryouts I looked around and decided I didn't really like these girls enough to spend this much or any time with them". She obviously tried too hard in the beginning to fit in and show that she was different than her Stephanie Tanner role (which is all that she was known for). I can empathize with how she must have been feeling like she were going through an identity crisis. She wanted to separate herself from Stephanie Tanner and just be Jodi Sweetin, but in doing so she morphed into a horrible person that cared about nothing or no one. Reading through it I noticed several times that she seemed to be grasping at different reasons/or excuses for her problems. At one point in her book she even admits to playing the "blame game", blaming other people for her addiction. Many times she acted as if she had a "right" to everything and "nobody told [her] no!" All the fun she was having was a farce, "the friends, the happiness, the confidence - all a load of crap". Everything was drug induced. She was always trying to create a happy place because she couldn't handle REAL life or the truth. Doing drugs turned her into a person she liked and thought made her look "cool". It gave her the confidence to be the person she wanted to be and she supposedly NEEDED that. She liked the power that came with it. It wasn't until the very end of her book that I really felt true respect for her. Reading all the accounts of her life as she wrote them made me feel a strong dislike for the person she had become but she managed to wrap it up in a way that made me want to take MOST of it back. I respect the fact that writing this book had to be extremely difficult for her as she was so brutally honest about everything. She really took a chance and put herself out there which is quite admirable. It takes a lot of strength and courage to put oneself out there and say "Hey. This is me. I know I'm not perfect, but I am trying".(less)

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Jul 15, 2010 Jodi rated it 4 of 5 stars 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 around...more

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Jan 20, 2012 Paul Eckert rated it 3 of 5 stars

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 would read it....more 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 would read it. That was when I saw Jodie Sweetin's memoir on the bookshelves of a Barnes & Noble a couple of years ago. I snatched it up, but have not bothered to read it until now.

Unsweetined is basically a Cliff Notes version of Jodie's drug and alcohol addiction after Full House to the present day. The part of her life that I thought would be the most interesting, her days acting on Full House, are summarized fairly quickly and with few of the details that one might hope for. I was looking for a bit more in this part of her life, some kind of insight into the world of what it's like to be a child actor. But for Jody, it seems that acting is something that she always wanted to do, something that came natural for her.

There are a few insights to be gleaned from this period, however. It definitely seems that fame took its toll on Jody's life beginning and early age. She went to public school, and the kids recognized her from Full House. They were pretty relentless about teasing her for being on the show. As a child, and Jody didn't understand why she was being treated differently. Surprisingly, this teasing seemed to continue all the way through high school. As such, Jody never seems to understand who she is or where she fits in with other people. This seems to be a trend that carries on throughout her life.

After having her first sip of alcohol, Jodie knew she had found something special. Under the influence of alcohol, she felt like she was finally being herself, as if she had come alive. In a strange way, it also connected her with her biological parents, who were both drug addicts. She never knew her birth parents, but it was undeniable that they were in her nonetheless. She didn't feel as though her adopted parents could understand her, as they rarely touched alcohol. Again, she felt like an outsider.

What followed that first drink at 14 years old was basically one bad decision after another. She was easily bored with married life, and drugs and alcohol seemed to be the only thing to fill the void. She didn't get many call backs for parts, being stigmatized as "that Full House kid", and most of the time she didn't seem to try that hard to get back into acting.

This book was mostly a success at taking the reader into the mind of an addict. All of the illogic and paranoia surrounding every decision was palpable and helped the reader understand the motivation behind an addict's behavior, and the way in which addiction destroys lives.

There were a few interesting quirks that worked their way into the narrative. For example, several times Sweetin mentions how much certain things cost, like a weekend bender in Vegas or a month-long stint in rehab. It has the odd effect of helping the reader to visualize the financial situation of each episode, and at the same time it distances her from the reader as we realize that the money she blows on a whim is more than most people make in a year.

Also, she enables the reader to sympathize with how irritating it can be to have people asking you to repeat a catch phrase from when you were five years old, how it makes you feel one- dimensional.

Thankfully, there is no conclusive, happily-ever-after to her story. The birth of her daughter inspired her to clean up her act, but it is still a struggle for her, and she still relapses from time to time.

Overall this was an interesting read that helped me understand an addict's mind, and the way otherwise good people can be complete jerks when suffering from addiction. Sweetin never seems to sugarcoat anything, though were parts where I wished she would have dug a little deeper into the emotion of the moment.

Recommended for fans of Sweetin and those who enjoy celebrities confessing to bad behavior.
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Jul 09, 2010 Romy rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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 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 I decided I’d better bunker down with the book. I’ll admit I was a bit skeptical at first (surely this book couldn’t be as good as my friend said it was) because 1. I never really was into Full House (I know shock horror!) and 2. I generally steer clear of books written by ‘celebrities’. Well I’ve finished it (in record time – a couple of hours, so its a very quick read) and I wasn’t blown away by it but it wasn’t as bad as I thought it might be, over all I could take it or leave it. I do however commend Jodie with her honest and often candid writing.

The book felt rushed to me and the part I was most interested in, what is was like on the Full House set, seemed to be skimmed over. There wasn’t much detail about the cast dynamics on set, I know she was only young at the time but I imagine most people reading this book would be interested in these dynamics because they were fans of Full House and want to know about all the shenanigans that went on during filming.

Most of the book focuses on Jodie’s life after Full House which is basically all about her drug habits and boy did she have a huge issue, this girl was wild and out of control. She’d go to rehab them relapse then go to rehab again and relapse again. I felt sorry for her at first, she definitely lost her way after Full House I mean being apart of a TV show for most of your formative years and then suddenly having it disappear, having to go back to your old life again would be hard to adjust to but I felt time and time again she used this excuse to justify her bad behaviour. I mean yes she had issues after Full House, she never felt like she could understand her peers, she felt different and the way she dulled this was with drugs but I’m sure many people feel this way but don’t go down the path she chose then again many do.

I was talking about this with my mum the other day (a very intellectual conversation if I can say so) and we came to the conclusion that who are we to judge someone’s actions, we’re not in her head so we don’t know what she was feeling at the time, I can only imagine that being in the public eye and then suddenly disappearing form it can only magnify the situation. Whilst I say who are we to judge her actions I must remember that by writing this book many people will be judging her and there will be a multitude of opinions about her life (some positive some negative) thus far because when you write a book people will come to their own conclusions. I only hope that through this book people stop and really think about how addiction can completely destroy someone’s life and talk about it with someone, because with talking comes a better understanding of addiction and it’s effects. I genuinely hope that Jodie’s desire to stay clean once and for all for all is achieved because she’s not the only one whose life will be destroyed if she doesn’t.
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Apr 13, 2011 Katie rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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

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May 19, 2013 Hillary-kristen rated it 5 of 5 stars

I loved reading unSweetined. I must have been living under a rock because I don't remember hearing about any of her "ordeals" in the news. I grew up watching "Full House" and thought that Stephanie Tanner was the cutest little kid ever. I loved her sayings "how rude", "pin a rose on your nose", "no one asked me", etc. She always seemed like such a natural actress and just really sweet.
Reading the book, I couldn't believe that she went through so much.
Her memoir is really good - sometimes funny...more

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Oct 05, 2010 Heather rated it 3 of 5 stars

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 never be...more

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Feb 28, 2012 Whitney Baker rated it 4 of 5 stars

I was really interested in reading this book because Stephanie was my favorite character in the Full House series. It was hard to believe all that Jodie went through at such a young age. Being from West Virginia, I have witnessed what meth can do to not only a person, but the family and the community the addict lives. This book made me realize, like Jodie stated, that meth is not only for the trailer park, white trash stereotype of people, but a drug that celebrities, doctors, lawyers, and some...more

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Aug 31, 2011 Sara rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2011, memoirs, biographies

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

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Jan 24, 2010 Chris rated it 4 of 5 stars

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 unnacceptable. S...more

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Mar 09, 2013 Betsy rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2013-mar

I have been wanting to read unSweetined for quite some time now. Although I went in knowing this was a guilty pleasure, I found that the author, Jodie Sweetin, came across very spoiled. (view spoiler)...more

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Feb 23, 2013 Erin Landers rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2013-books

I read this book in one day. I've read other addiction/celebrity books before and this was pretty much what I expected, but in a good way. This was very, very raw and honest. I'm sure she left plenty of things out, understandably, but she also really put herself out there.

For people who enjoyed this book, I would recommend Maureen McCormick's book (Marcia Brady), Here's the Story. Like Sweetin, McCormick also had a deep routed secret stemming from her home life and relationship with her parents...more

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Feb 03, 2013 Kerry Connelly rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: i-own-a-copy, autobios-memoir

Decent read BUT.. anyone up for some theatrics? PG: 110
'I kept getting sick and passing out. At one point I sopped breathing. I was laying on the sidewalk, heartbeats away from death"'

I'm sorry but as soon as I read that, my inner voice wen't 'ohhhh come on' even she admits to having a knack for switching personalities whenever she wants to get what she want's.

I love Full House, and am very into memoirs/ autobiographies. So I thought I'd give this one a go.

One thing I can say is - she's define...more

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Mar 11, 2011 Cindy rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: read-in-2011, biography

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 and the whole ignorence o...more

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Sep 17, 2011 Jennifer Layton rated it 4 of 5 stars

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

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Jul 24, 2012 Monica rated it 3 of 5 stars

I, like many other reviewers, read this book mainly because I loved (still love!) Full House. Over the years, I'd read news stories of Jodie's drug/addiciation problems, but I wanted to get the truth from the source. While the book is good, it is very straighforward and very depressing. I'm pulling for Jodie, but the book was hard to read (subject matter, not writing). It's also hard to keep reading when you know it's a never-ending circle and you're just going to find yourself back where it sta...more

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Feb 02, 2011 Jenn Edward rated it 5 of 5 stars

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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 knew she...more

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Jul 14, 2010 Gus rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: memoir, nonfiction, book-club, read-2010

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

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Dec 02, 2011 Christy rated it 3 of 5 stars

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 effect.

The writing also s...more

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Dec 08, 2009 Nicky rated it 2 of 5 stars

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 particularly insi...more

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