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Life with My Sister Madonna | 
 enlarge | Authors: Christopher Ciccone, Wendy Leigh
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
Category: Book
List Price: £17.99
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Rating:  26 reviews
Sales Rank: 809
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6.3 x 1.3
ISBN: 1847374387
EAN: 9781847374387
ASIN: 1847374387
Publication Date: July 14, 2008
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 A really good read September 18, 2008
Karen Heeson (Liverpool, UK)
I am not a big fan of Madonna but decided to give this book a go. I really enjoyed this book and found it hard to put down. In fact I was really disappointed when I finished it. I felt Christopher gave a fair view in the book and it was a great insight into Madonna's life and her lifestyle. I loved it.
 Grow up you moronic loser September 16, 2008
Zappakins (London)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have never been a huge fan of Madonna and so read this book wih an open mind. This book is really much a do about nothing, it has obviously been written to line the pockets of a bitter, twisted person who is jealous of his sisters success.
He starts the book being in awe of his sister but by the end he is unable to contain his jealousy and resorts to whingeing e.g. "Her house is bigger than mine" etc... YAWN!
He seems to forget, that had it not been for Madonna's success he would be flipping burgers for a living- he should've spent his money more wisely, instead of blowing it all (no pun intended), buying his way into the celebrity circuit. It's interesting to note that as soon as Madonna kicked him into touch, so did his so called celebrity pals (Demi Moore, being a prime example).
As for Madonna herself, who knows? It is very doubtful she will ever resort to releasing a similar book, so we will never know the reasons behind her treatment of Christopher. BUT as an outsider looking in, it would appear that she grew tired of his party lifestyle and constant whining about money... And he has now done the worst thing a "loving" relative can ever do... sell out
 Myth busting? September 9, 2008
C. Brighton (North Wales)
Christopher Ciccone is Madonna's younger brother and, as the only gay man in the large family of 8 children, naturally fell into the creation and masterminding of the woman who would become the most famous icon of our time.
Reading this bitter, and 'myth-busting' autobiography, I couldn't help noticing that despite the explicit aim of the book - to reveal all about Madonna - she still remains elusive and almost outside the frame at times.
Why else are so many people still so fascinated with her?
Ciccone gives us no insight into why she can disregard and fail to understand the needs of others so easily, neither does he explore why exactly it is she is so, in his words, 'profoundly different' from the rest of us.
The result is, unexpectedly, that Madonna may have emerged from this tell-all with little damage done. The myth-busting, for example her early days in New York which were far less waif-and-stray than she has always made out, has already been covered by biographers such as Andrew Morton, and her famous temperament - the iciness and the tantrums - is there everytime you open a newspaper or magazine. She would tell you herself, because she doesn't understand why not to.
I enjoyed the vignettes - the 'random incidents' that Madonna herself has alluded to when recounting those years and which Christopher seems to have been able to attract too. No amount of money or fame seems to inure the cast of celebrities to things not going according to plan, and that is interesting.
If the author emerges as subservient and lacking the wit to get out at the earliest opportunity then this has to be balanced against why he may have stayed: Madonna, as she has tried to project in her work towards millions, helped him form his identity, and if the skewed morality of what followed from that is at times funny and at times hard to understand, then it's clear how important this is to people.
You only have to look at Madonna's latest change of image, to see how enthralled people still are with hers.
 Insightful look into Madonna's life August 29, 2008
J. Jones (London)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is an entertaining look at Madonna's life through the eyes of her obviously embittered brother Christopher. It's probably Christopher's bitchier comments about his sister that are the most revealing. You get the sense of a classically complicated brother-sister relationship. Very tellingly at the end Christopher relates a conversatin with his father where he calls himself a 'Loser'. I came away feeling sorry for Christopher, and thinking that it wouldn't be that hard for his older sister to forgive his irritating ways and take him back into the fold.
There's no real depth to the book, and you leave it feeling as slutty as if you've just read a back catalogue of Heat magazine. However, it's grossly intriguing nonetheless.
Enjoyable August 9, 2008
S. Rand (UK)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book by Madonna's brother isn't as you might fear (or hope) a character assassination of his sister. It's not a bitter expose either. I wouldn't be surprised if Madonna actually authorised this just to chuck some work Christopher's way.
The most enjoyable parts of it for me are in the details of how Madonna's career took off and how the dynamics of their brother/sister relationship were affected.
Chris Ciccone comes across as a pretty okay guy who hasn't blamed everything that didn't go his way on his sister. There's not much new to learn about Madonna but this is at least a book written by someone who really knows her. And it's an easy read.
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