Helpful Score: 3
This turned out to be not at all what I expected. I found the graphic nature and the language unnecessary and offensive. The story could have been told without it but it seems the author likes the shock value. The title refers to the authors mother, but this is not about her, it's about the author, painfully, explicitly described in minute detail. As a parent herself now, one would expect her to want to keep these salacious details to herself rather than have her children have knowledge of them. I didn't like her sexual escapades described to me in all their detail, surely her sons will not like knowing of their mother's sex life let alone have it published for ALL to see.
Helpful Score: 1
There were parts of this story that were interesting. For the most part though, I found this story cumbersome and weary. So much so, that I've never finished listening to this book on CD (although I have tried, for many months). This is the first book on CD that I've never made it to the end.....and I don't care. I can't tell whether the writer wants the reader to feel sympathy for her because she had such a terrible childhood, or if she is trying to prove to the reader how cool she was because of her knowledge of sex and drugs from an early age. This just isn't my cup of tea. We've all struggled with our own identity to get to where we are. This is narcissism at a fundamental level.
