High On Arrival
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Inside the Front Cover:
Not long before her 50th birthday, Mackenzie Phillips walked into Los Angeles International Airport. She was on her way to a reunion for One Day at a Time, the hugely popular 70's sitcom on which she once starred as the lovable rebel Julie Cooper. Within minutes of entering the security checkpoint, Mackenzie was in handcuffs, arrested for possession of cocaine and heroin.
Born into rock and roll royalty, flying in Learjets to the Virgin Islands at five, making pot brownies with her father's friends at eleven, Mackenzie grew up in an all-access kingdom of hippie freedom and heroin cool. It was a kingdom over which her father, the legendary John Phillips of The Mamas and the Papas, presided, often in absentia, as a spellbinding, visionary phantom.
When Mackenzie was a teenager, Hollywood and the world took notice of the charming, talented, precocious child actor after her star-making turn in American Graffitti. As a young woman she joined the nonstop party in the hedonistic pleasure dome her father created for himself and his fellow revelers, and a rapt TV audience watched as Julie Cooper wasted away before their eyes. By the time Mackenzie discovered how deep and dark her father's trip was going, it was too late. And as an adult, she has paid dearly for a lifetime of excess, working tirelessly to reconcile a wonderful, terrible past in which she succumbed to the power of addiction and the pull of her magnetic father.
As her astounding, outrageous, and often tender life story unfolds, the actor-musician-mother shares her lifelong battle with personal demons and near fatal addictions. She overcomes seemingly impossible obstacles again and again and journeys toward redemption and peace. By exposing the shadows and secrets of the past to the light of day, the star who turned up High on Arrival has finally come back down to earth--to stay.
My Review:
This is a book about the life of MacKenzie Phillips, by MacKenzie Phillips. She had the craziest life I can even imagine. She tried drugs when she was very young and for many years used them continually. She is lucky to be alive at all. Her parents were not the greatest, her mom was an alcoholic, her dad was a famous singer in a rock band, who used drugs. He didn't act like a father. She came to live with him for a while and when she asked him "What are the rules?" basically there were no rules. It sounds like it would be great, but it's so hard for a kid to have zero rules. Many times she would be left behind with no adults in the house.
When the book came out, she tells about an incestuous relationship she had with her dad for many years, a lot of people thought she lied about that to sell the book, but I don't think so, I think it really happened. Because when she talks about it, she is mostly shocked and feels guilty about it. She craved her dad's love and attention for so long, I think part of her liked that she got him to herself even if it was only briefly, the other thing they didn't say was that she was usually basically unconscious (from drug use) when it happened. People said that she waited until her dad died to say this because he can't come back and say it's a lie. I think she waited until her dad died because it made it easier for her to reveal and deal with. Sometimes you have a secret and it hurts more when you don't talk about it than when you do, even if it's a shameful subject.
I think she wrote a brutally honest book about her life.
Book Review by Augusten Burroughs:
"I felt many things while reading this book -- which I did in one overnight sitting -- but when I reached the last page I felt only one: a tremendous respect for its author and a deep appreciation of just exactly how courageous she is to publish this book.
This is no celebrity addiction memoir. And it is no 'former child star falls from grace' saga, either. It is the heart-wrenching and perilous story that thousands and thousands of perfectly ordinary women and men lived themselves, silently, numbly, and with obedience and love. By making her search for redemption public -- despite the inevitable backlash -- Mackenzie Phillips may very well help others find it for themselves.
Rich with compassion, forgiveness, and wisdom, this is a brave memoir executed with an unwavering loyalty and commitment to truth."
Reserved for a bookbox.
Not long before her 50th birthday, Mackenzie Phillips walked into Los Angeles International Airport. She was on her way to a reunion for One Day at a Time, the hugely popular 70's sitcom on which she once starred as the lovable rebel Julie Cooper. Within minutes of entering the security checkpoint, Mackenzie was in handcuffs, arrested for possession of cocaine and heroin.
Born into rock and roll royalty, flying in Learjets to the Virgin Islands at five, making pot brownies with her father's friends at eleven, Mackenzie grew up in an all-access kingdom of hippie freedom and heroin cool. It was a kingdom over which her father, the legendary John Phillips of The Mamas and the Papas, presided, often in absentia, as a spellbinding, visionary phantom.
When Mackenzie was a teenager, Hollywood and the world took notice of the charming, talented, precocious child actor after her star-making turn in American Graffitti. As a young woman she joined the nonstop party in the hedonistic pleasure dome her father created for himself and his fellow revelers, and a rapt TV audience watched as Julie Cooper wasted away before their eyes. By the time Mackenzie discovered how deep and dark her father's trip was going, it was too late. And as an adult, she has paid dearly for a lifetime of excess, working tirelessly to reconcile a wonderful, terrible past in which she succumbed to the power of addiction and the pull of her magnetic father.
As her astounding, outrageous, and often tender life story unfolds, the actor-musician-mother shares her lifelong battle with personal demons and near fatal addictions. She overcomes seemingly impossible obstacles again and again and journeys toward redemption and peace. By exposing the shadows and secrets of the past to the light of day, the star who turned up High on Arrival has finally come back down to earth--to stay.
My Review:
This is a book about the life of MacKenzie Phillips, by MacKenzie Phillips. She had the craziest life I can even imagine. She tried drugs when she was very young and for many years used them continually. She is lucky to be alive at all. Her parents were not the greatest, her mom was an alcoholic, her dad was a famous singer in a rock band, who used drugs. He didn't act like a father. She came to live with him for a while and when she asked him "What are the rules?" basically there were no rules. It sounds like it would be great, but it's so hard for a kid to have zero rules. Many times she would be left behind with no adults in the house.
When the book came out, she tells about an incestuous relationship she had with her dad for many years, a lot of people thought she lied about that to sell the book, but I don't think so, I think it really happened. Because when she talks about it, she is mostly shocked and feels guilty about it. She craved her dad's love and attention for so long, I think part of her liked that she got him to herself even if it was only briefly, the other thing they didn't say was that she was usually basically unconscious (from drug use) when it happened. People said that she waited until her dad died to say this because he can't come back and say it's a lie. I think she waited until her dad died because it made it easier for her to reveal and deal with. Sometimes you have a secret and it hurts more when you don't talk about it than when you do, even if it's a shameful subject.
I think she wrote a brutally honest book about her life.
Book Review by Augusten Burroughs:
"I felt many things while reading this book -- which I did in one overnight sitting -- but when I reached the last page I felt only one: a tremendous respect for its author and a deep appreciation of just exactly how courageous she is to publish this book.
This is no celebrity addiction memoir. And it is no 'former child star falls from grace' saga, either. It is the heart-wrenching and perilous story that thousands and thousands of perfectly ordinary women and men lived themselves, silently, numbly, and with obedience and love. By making her search for redemption public -- despite the inevitable backlash -- Mackenzie Phillips may very well help others find it for themselves.
Rich with compassion, forgiveness, and wisdom, this is a brave memoir executed with an unwavering loyalty and commitment to truth."
Reserved for a bookbox.
This book is travelling in the Biography/Auto-Biography/Humor Bookbox.
Taken from JennyC1230's bio bookbox. I've been wanting to read this book...thanks for including it.
Sending this book on to hostile17 for the tag wishlist game.
Thank you so much for sending me this wishlist book.
I can't wait to dive in. :)
I can't wait to dive in. :)
