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Christy Canyon’s flamboyant debut into the world of adult video in 1984 rocked the porn industry like never before. Selling millions of copies, her videos quickly established her as the world’s leading porn star. Take… More >>
Product Description
Christy Canyon’s flamboyant debut into the world of adult video in 1984 rocked the porn industry like never before. Selling millions of copies, her videos quickly established her as the world’s leading porn star. Take… More >>
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This book is suppossed to be an autobography of porn star Christy Canyon. What it is instead is a vehicle for graphic descriptions of her sex scenes against a background of bad, bad english. The book starts innocently enough, with Christy describing how she got into porn and the feelings associated with her new career. As the book progresses, she seems to care less about the story of her life and more about how every moment of every sex scene she ever did felt and looked like. It gets tedious and boring – Wow Christy, you had sex? What next? Oh, you did it several more times. Apparently the editor of the book also got bored halfway through, because the grammer and spelling took a turn for the worse. Either that or the book was partially written by a fourth grader (shiver). Ads at the back of the book for her next book about her life stripping, and encouragements to buy several more copies of the book you just finished reading (?!) further destroy the credibility.
She gets some stars for effort, and insight (albeit shallow) into the porn industry. Traci Lords’ “Underneath It All” is a better read, both for content and mechanics.
Rating: 2 / 5
Scarlett O’Hara is one of the few protagonists who is completely unlikable but incredibly compelling. Christy Canyon is a whining brat who insults others’ appearances in order to build herself up and seems completely clueless on WHY her family and friends react to her life choices.
She goes on to say that she had no other choice to survive, but it’s so hard to believe. Especially when she cries over and over again that it was the lack of paternal attention that drove her to her lifestyle. Okay, so you learned you can’t count on your dad. All her musings are completely superficial, and she never goes on to say HOW her upbringing affected her choices and mindset.
No interesting inside information of the industry whatsoever and it feels like she transcribed her diary word for word. Especially since she introduces characters for the first time as if the reader had already known who they were from the get go.
If you’re a fan of her movies, skim through for the sexual memories. If you’re a fan of literature and memoirs, skip it.
One must admire the self publisher; a writer who receives countless “no thank you”s from publishing companies but still believes her manuscript is worth reading by anyone but her family.
Rating: 1 / 5
Please Ms. Canyon, Please.If she said it once in the book she said it 100 times. Oh poor me,mommy and daddy actually had other things going on in their lives and that is wrong, because you have to devote all your love and focus all your attention on me.I am reminded of a Border Collie who never stops begging for attention until the owner can’t stand it any longer and gently banishes the dog to the back yard,if just for peace and quiet. Many people have had less than perfect parents,but very few use the fact as a crutch,or a reason for choices made.
I suppose I bought the book out of curiosity.I have always wondered what makes a person get inolved in the adult industry, when the stories so often end in heartbreak. If I take this story as truth,Ms. Canyon started and stayed(quit and came back),etcetera,etcetera because she found the one thing she could do where all the attention was focused on her.Perhaps she does not on a conscious level understand this.Nobody ever watched her films,they looked at them,which is what I gather she really wanted anyway.
I found great humor in the way Ms.Canyon labels other people freaks for their…ahem,peculiar tastes,yet expects us the reader to view her as just another hardworking American Girl. I also took particular exception to her derogatory descriptive terms regarding the homeless.They are what they are, but they never exploited themselves.If you have read the book…did anybody but me notice that Ms. Canyon eventually finds fault with each of her friends?
Overall,I was very disappointed in the book.I learned nothing,other than the fact that Ms.Canyon thinks very highly of herself and she expects us to do the same.I’m sorry I spent the money to give her the attention she so desperately craves.
Rating: 1 / 5
I have seen Christy Canyon for a long time and she was in many videos in her career but what I remember is Pretty Peaches and I think that was the beginning of her career. Christy Canyon, Thank you for writing ths book you are a true Goddess.
Rating: 5 / 5
Dear Christy,
I LOVE your book. The way you look at yourself in a non-victim-way, the combining of childhood memories with backstage-images of now and then: great. I know most of the characters you are writing about and always wished to take a look behind the scene. And I guess, no one could have told this better than you do.
So: thanx.
Robert
Rating: 5 / 5