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Chaz Bono

Auteur de Family Outing

4+ oeuvres 507 utilisateurs 13 critiques 1 Favoris

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Comprend les noms: Chaz Bono, Chaz Bono (Author)

Œuvres de Chaz Bono

Family Outing (1998) 245 exemplaires
The End of Innocence: A Memoir (2002) 66 exemplaires
Becoming Chaz 1 exemplaire

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Reborn [2018 Film] (2018) — Actor — 2 exemplaires

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Partage des connaissances

Nom canonique
Bono, Chaz
Nom légal
Bono, Chaz Salvatore
Autres noms
Bono, Chastity
Date de naissance
1969-03-04
Sexe
male
Nationalité
USA
Lieu de naissance
Los Angeles, California, USA
Professions
advocate
writer
musician
Relations
Cher (mother)
Bono, Sonny (father)

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Critiques

Review: The End of Innocence by Chastity Bono.

While reading this book I could not call it a memoir. It started out about Chastity and when she first felt unusual about her gender and the struggles she had to overcome how she felt and how she was going to let her parents know. She was a lesbian for a while before she came out of the closet. She didn’t have an easy life like a lot of children of well-known parents.

As I read I thought her relationship with her parents was somewhat not a happy one. I don’t know why I felt that way but in this book she never talked about them. There were a couple short mentions of them but it was mostly about how she lived, what she did for a career, and who she hung out with but that even seemed somewhat short and sad. One thing that surprised me is that Chastity did go down that path as a singer but that was like riding a roller coaster because she and her band, “Ceremony” tried for four years and never got anywhere. She mentioned she didn’t even ask for any help from her parents. It’s like she was in another world just being Chastity.

The book was mostly about her love triangle relationship between Rachel, herself and Joan. She loved Rachel but she wasn’t happy. Joan was her true and only love of her life who she met at a young age because Joan was a good friend of her mother… For a few years she just fantasized about Joan until she sensed that Joan had feelings for her too. Also, Joan had a form of cancer where she would go into remission for long periods of time. Joan was her mother’s age but that never bothered Chastity. Most of the book was about her feeling for Joan and how close they were. However, Chastity didn’t have the forwardness to end her relationship with Rachel. She kept trying but she kept saying to Joan that she didn’t want to hurt Rachel.

Everything kept going back and forth until Joan was really sick from the cancer. Then Chastity decided she wanted to give Joan all her love. Chastity had a rough time being with Joan as her body was giving up to cancer. It was sad but I feel that this book is more a memorial to Joan, which is alright; however, it wasn’t a memoir of Chastity…
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Juan-banjo | Sep 19, 2016 |
For being a book titled Transition, I find it shocking that Chaz Bono only dedicated the last two chapters of his book to discuss the physical aspects of transitioning (hormone injections and top surgery). The entire work leading up to it, he talked about growing up neglected by Sonny and Cher, his mentally abusive nanny Helen and his addiction to pain killers. Not at all what I was hoping to get out of this work.
 
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BridgettKathryn | 11 autres critiques | Sep 6, 2015 |
I won a paperback copy of this book through goodreads.com First Reads giveaway.

Now I read this book when it came out about a year ago and loved it. So the giveaway was for the release of the paperback version of the book which included a new epilogue.

So first of all, Chaz Bono is one of the most inspiring men on the planet, in my opinion anyway. I wanted to read this book because I am a supporter of GLBT community. I myself am straight, but I have gay friends and personally believe that everyone has the right to be happy no matter who they choose to live there life with. I cannot imagine what it must be like to live most of your life knowing that you belong in another body, or feeling like you should have another body. I mean sometimes I wake up in the morning and hate having to take so long shaving my legs/armpits, or having to endure putting on pantyhose (I mean COME ON who invented that deathly contraption anyway?) and I think to myself “wouldn't my life be so much easier if I was a man?” However, it occurs to me having read this book that there are probably millions of men out in the world who want to be women, and who would love the opportunity to wake up and have to shave there legs. It made me appreciate things like that which I take for granted (I still hate pantyhose though).

I loved how brave Chaz was for sharing his transition in a book and in his documentary. I loved learning more about him, and what he had to go through. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to know more about Transitioning, just on a personal level, it didn't get into like too much medical details. I just thought it was really inspiring.
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PrescottKris | 11 autres critiques | Jan 26, 2015 |
This book's subject matter, transitioning from female to male, is interesting enough despite my wish for this book to have been better written. If a reader can just take away from Chaz's book the step-by-step stages he went through until he came into the reality of being a man, so much the better.

What I personally wanted to get out of reading this memoir was to more fully understand the psychology and physiology of the transition from female to male. Chaz tells his story, but I suspect there is much more to this transition that what is revealed here - although Chaz can only give his own perspective. To get a better understanding of this transition, I'd think additional books, both memoirs and medical, about this subject need to be read.

However, I applaud what Chaz has done. Perhaps, if this book were about any other FTM (female to male transgender), I would not have even picked it up. I always loved Sonny and Cher and always thought Chastity was so cute - except for not liking her name! Chaz, though, has come full circle into being who he really felt he was, although his experience was not without pain. His goal in writing this book was to teach others about his situation which, to some, might seem extremely bizarre.

Chaz's memoir is probably an easy place to start learning about this gender identity crisis and how one person, albeit a well-known individual, has worked out the best way to improve his own situation.
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SqueakyChu | 11 autres critiques | Dec 20, 2013 |

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