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CHER

jellyBEAN — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 11:53:06 GMT

Picked up Volume 1 (Volume 2 out next year 2026). I am about halfway thru. She has met Sonny and is beginning her ascent into becoming famous as Sonny and Cher.

I am really enjoying this book. What a life! Her mother, albeit gorgeous and talented as well, struggled to provide any kind of stability for Cher and her little sister. I didn't realize she moved around so much as a kid, times were tough, times were sometimes great, but what a struggle.

I am at the part where she has met Sonny and is getting into background singing for Phil (Phillip) Spector - working with Darlene Love, the Wrecking Crew, meeting Brian Wilson, etc...

I love to read biographies and this is an autobiography. I highly recommend even if you're not a Cher fan. It's so far a great life story.

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kaydee50 — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 11:54:37 GMT

I love bios not so much autobios. Feel that they are not very objective--LOL!!

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theresa — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 12:04:56 GMT

@jellyBEAN not a Cher fan and have no interest in reading her book.

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FranandZoe — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 12:26:12 GMT

I loved it too - can't wait for Part 2.

Al Pacino's and Barbra Streisand's were also great reads.

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Sooner — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 12:37:04 GMT

Cher is one of the most talented people ever to walk across the stage. Sounds like she had a rough upbringing. But for the grace of God I think about people unfortunate in their childhood.

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Dusty1 — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 13:27:14 GMT

@jellyBEAN I listened to the audio book when it first came out.

Cher read most of it. She said she wasn't going to read the entire book because of her dyslexia.

I have always been a Cher fan. I always thought that she was a strong woman with a great sense of humor.

I lost a lot of respect for her in the book. I am sad about that.

Her Mother made so many horrible decisions for her own life, with so many excuses of how she had no other options & then she added children to her life & continued to make terrible choices.

And then Cher, that I thought was a strong, intelligent person, excuses her Mother & makes terrible decisions in her life, And, then drags her children through this.

I can't handle the thoughtless ways that these women lived their lives & left their children to fend for themselves. That makes me crazy!

I know it's complicated & life is hard, but Cher (And her sister.) & Chasity (And later Elijah.) deserved more from the Mothers.

This is why I hate the move ET. I will never watch it, again.

That Mom went to school to get Elliott & left a kindergartener home alone!!

I was so looking forward to reading/hearing her book but it made me so sad.

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Still Raining — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 13:28:27 GMT

Long ago I worked with a man whose parents were Armenian and he joked that his claim to fame was that his mother babysat Cher. Could be?

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1Snickers — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 13:39:39 GMT

@jellyBEAN wrote:
Picked up Volume 1 (Volume 2 out next year 2026). I am about halfway thru. She has met Sonny and is beginning her ascent into becoming famous as Sonny and Cher.

I am really enjoying this book. What a life! Her mother, albeit gorgeous and talented as well, struggled to provide any kind of stability for Cher and her little sister. I didn't realize she moved around so much as a kid, times were tough, times were sometimes great, but what a struggle.

I am at the part where she has met Sonny and is getting into background singing for Phil (Phillip) Spector - working with Darlene Love, the Wrecking Crew, meeting Brian Wilson, etc...

I love to read biographies and this is an autobiography. I highly recommend even if you're not a Cher fan. It's so far a great life story.

  I read the book and can't believe Cher would keep making the same mistakes her mother did. She also had many excuses for trusting men when she shouldn't have.
I saw Cher on stage at Caesars Palace and it was a wonderful show. Her energy and voice was amazing as were the costumes.
I'm uncertain whether I'll read the second book. The writing skipped around and was disjointed with bad punctuation. It needed better editing.
  📕 💿 🎤🎼

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Venezia — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 13:40:22 GMT

@jellyBEAN - I read this a while ago and really enjoyed it. Thanks for the heads up about Volume 2; I'll be watching for it!

I don't get the comments about her being a terrible mother. As far as I know she has a good relationship with both of her children and had with her own mother. We all know families are complicated!

Enjoy the rest of the book.

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Sooner — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 15:07:15 GMT

@Venezia wrote:
@jellyBEAN - I read this a while ago and really enjoyed it. Thanks for the heads up about Volume 2; I'll be watching for it!

I don't get the comments about her being a terrible mother. As far as I know she has a good relationship with both of her children and had with her own mother. We all know families are complicated!

Enjoy the rest of the book.

@Venezia Sometimes a good relationship doesn't add up to a good parent.

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SWEET — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 15:10:16 GMT

@jellyBEAN wrote:
Picked up Volume 1 (Volume 2 out next year 2026). I am about halfway thru. She has met Sonny and is beginning her ascent into becoming famous as Sonny and Cher.

I am really enjoying this book. What a life! Her mother, albeit gorgeous and talented as well, struggled to provide any kind of stability for Cher and her little sister. I didn't realize she moved around so much as a kid, times were tough, times were sometimes great, but what a struggle.

I am at the part where she has met Sonny and is getting into background singing for Phil (Phillip) Spector - working with Darlene Love, the Wrecking Crew, meeting Brian Wilson, etc...

I love to read biographies and this is an autobiography. I highly recommend even if you're not a Cher fan. It's so far a great life story.

@jellyBEAN

I can't wait to read this book. By the way, part 2 is coming out in November 2025.

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BarbieDollToo — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 17:42:55 GMT

This is why I hate the move ET. I will never watch it, again.
That Mom went to school to get Elliott & left a kindergartener home alone!!

I was so looking forward to reading/hearing her book but it made me so sad.

Really? You realize that was just for the plot of the movie? That is why you hate ET? @Dusty1

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We rescue cats — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 18:10:29 GMT

I have the book but have yet to read it, am debating whether to start now or wait until the second one is out. I was (and still am) a Cher fan. If I remember correctly she had a fairly difficult childhood which is why she ended up in such a relationship with Sonny-I believe he took her under his wing...I saw her on the first Where the Action is that they were on...about a million years ago! LOL!!!

ETA-that episode aired in 1966!!!! I was 13!

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jellyBEAN — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 11:49:23 GMT

@We rescue cats wrote:
I have the book but have yet to read it, am debating whether to start now or wait until the second one is out. I was (and still am) a Cher fan. If I remember correctly she had a fairly difficult childhood which is why she ended up in such a relationship with Sonny-I believe he took her under his wing...I saw her on the first Where the Action is that they were on...about a million years ago! LOL!!!

ETA-that episode aired in 1966!!!! I was 13!

That and Hullaballoo were my favorites as a young woman. I was about 10 years old. Paul Revere and the Raiders were a favorite band to see on those shows.

I am not a Cher fan, so for me to be enjoying this book as much as I am, surprises even me. Cher's story is quite detailed.

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KLevineFan — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 10:25:15 GMT

@SWEET Unfortunately now they're not releasing Vol. 2 until May 2026...to tie in with her 80th birthday (and I suspect she didn't finish writing it in time!).

Loved the first volume!

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SWEET — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 11:04:11 GMT

@KLevineFan wrote:
@SWEET Unfortunately now they're not releasing Vol. 2 until May 2026...to tie in with her 80th birthday (and I suspect she didn't finish writing it in time!).

Loved the first volume!

@KLevineFan

I just Googled and the only place I saw that pub date was Amazon. All of the other references still said November. I couldn't figure out how she could write part 2 that fast anyway or try to anyway.