Love and Madness My Private Years with George C Scott eBook Karen Truesdell Riehl
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Film and theater audiences were attracted to George C. Scott's powerful stage presence and charisma, as was Karen Truesdell, a Stephens College theatre student. After performing with him on stage, a long term love relationship developed. Following her graduation, Karen and George moved to New York City together, where George's problems with booze and joblessness sent him into frequent rages. Broke, pregnant and ruling out an abortion, Karen entered a home for unwed mothers.
Her liaison with Scott spanned 30 years as his hidden mistress and mother of his child. Truesdell Riehl's honesty and willingness to expose her own blindness to Scott's Jekyll and Hyde persona creates a compelling page-turner that reveals a compassionate understanding of young women trapped in the hypocrisy of the 1950's.
Love and Madness My Private Years with George C Scott eBook Karen Truesdell Riehl
I will give you that this book is interesting.I found the author and George C. Scott to be very narcissistic and co-dependent, not the most likeable people.
I don't see a great love affair. I think they loved each other, but hurt all the people close to them. The author uses the money her parents are sending her for schooling, moves in with a married man, moves to NYC, and lies to her parents the whole time. She gets pregnant. He wants her to abort the baby. He tries to physically harm her. He drinks to excess and holds a pillow over her face. He tries to hit her. She forgives him, they have sex.
A nice man who loves her, knows her history of a baby by another man, proposes, she doesn't love him, she marries him anyway. She avoids telling him she loves him. They divorce 12 years later, and she blames him for being aloof. Their two boys stay with their dad. Her daughter goes back and lives with George and his wife. She does not say she misses the children, only the great love in her life.
She marries, has a young son. George comes back in her life. She leaves the young boy, about 6-8 years old, at home by himself so that she can see George, now with their now-adult daughter. They resume the affair....oh by the way, he is married again, and the author knows this fully well.
The current wife and George visit. Amazingly, the current wife doesn't like the author...go figger. The author and the grown daughter have great fun making jokes at the expense of the now wife. George has periods of being with the author again, and he has obscenity screaming episodes at the 8 year olds expense. Is the author upset? No, she is proud of the young boy standing up to him. He tries hurting/killing her again.
The book was interesting for the most part. I didn't learn any more about George C. Scott that would have been in a People magazine article.
Good book, I didn't like the author or George, and I felt very sorry for her parents and for the children.
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Love and Madness My Private Years with George C Scott eBook Karen Truesdell Riehl Reviews
The author loved George C. Scott, but she had absolutely no idea of how to make it work. The book is full of stories that made me hit my forehead with exasperation.
Why she put up with this man boggles the mind. I mean, first off, he was married when she met him, but she can't stop herself from getting involved? Dumb. He gets drunk often and says absolutely horrible things to everybody around him, but she stays with him? Really dumb. He wants her to abort their baby and then tries to kill her, but she still stays with him? As I said, the mind boggles.
It reminds me of the definition of insanity you keep doing the same thing and expecting a different result. I guess I must be insane, too, because I kept reading the book to the end and expecting a different result.
On the plus side, the book was much better edited than most e-books. That doesn't make up for the rest of it, though.
Though this is not terribly well written, it did have one powerful force -- her love for George. You could really feel how much she was obsessed with her love for this man. And I do feel he loved her too, though he is a terribly tormented soul. That said, she does not give a sense of place, and sates to events in time would have been good. Other things were left out in people around George.
When I was at Stephens I recall a professor talking about George. There was a faculty party, George got terribly drunk and went into a rage at his wife, Carolyn Hughes Scott. He wanted to beat her up. However the teacher, a small man in comparison to George, forced George into the bathroom, and refused to let him out until he calmed down, and sobered up. Carolyn went home without him that night, as George finally passed out on the floor and slept it off. It was a story I never forgot.
This is a compelling read for the obsessive and abiding love that Karen found herself tangled within in for years. It is another aspect to a famous, talented and tormented life of George Campbell Scott.
Where to start? With the really bad writing? The conceit that she remembers actual conversations from 40 years ago? Her utter lack of self-reflection? The complete absence of any awareness that her behavior over all of those was abominable? We learn nothing here that we did not already know -- there are alcoholic, abusive men who invite women into destructive relationships, and there are destructive women who willingly participate to the mutual detriment of the couple and everyone around them. Cry me a river. As another reviewer observed -- "I'm going with dumb."
A sad story without a doubt. George C. Scott was a terrific actor who was also deeply flawed. His struggles with alcoholism produced wild mood swings that sometimes included a death wish. He had a string of marriages and the relationship with Truesdell which is highlighted in the book. Truesdell is criticized in several reviews for her writing style, but I must say my interest was maintained throughout, which to me is the mark of a good writer. Overall, the book was compelling for me.
This book is non fiction, but it reads like a novel........a poorly written, silly novel that anyone over the age of 12 can tell bears very little resemblance to reality. The main point of the story is true - Ms Riehl did have an affair with George C Scott and gave birth to his child - but the details given are like those of a romance novel. One gets the feeling the author has convinced herself that things were different than they truly were. According to the author Mr Scott told her he loved her, would be with her forever, wanted to marry her. She then acts surprised when it doesn't actually pan out, despite the fact that her affair started when Mr Scott was married, and he went on to have several more wives. There are countless times in the book a story or anecdote just defies credulity.
I found myself wishing I'd read a different book about Mr Scott. A book written by someone without an axe to grind, someone who could have given some insight into the private life of this incredibly talented, troubled man.
I will give you that this book is interesting.
I found the author and George C. Scott to be very narcissistic and co-dependent, not the most likeable people.
I don't see a great love affair. I think they loved each other, but hurt all the people close to them. The author uses the money her parents are sending her for schooling, moves in with a married man, moves to NYC, and lies to her parents the whole time. She gets pregnant. He wants her to abort the baby. He tries to physically harm her. He drinks to excess and holds a pillow over her face. He tries to hit her. She forgives him, they have sex.
A nice man who loves her, knows her history of a baby by another man, proposes, she doesn't love him, she marries him anyway. She avoids telling him she loves him. They divorce 12 years later, and she blames him for being aloof. Their two boys stay with their dad. Her daughter goes back and lives with George and his wife. She does not say she misses the children, only the great love in her life.
She marries, has a young son. George comes back in her life. She leaves the young boy, about 6-8 years old, at home by himself so that she can see George, now with their now-adult daughter. They resume the affair....oh by the way, he is married again, and the author knows this fully well.
The current wife and George visit. Amazingly, the current wife doesn't like the author...go figger. The author and the grown daughter have great fun making jokes at the expense of the now wife. George has periods of being with the author again, and he has obscenity screaming episodes at the 8 year olds expense. Is the author upset? No, she is proud of the young boy standing up to him. He tries hurting/killing her again.
The book was interesting for the most part. I didn't learn any more about George C. Scott that would have been in a People magazine article.
Good book, I didn't like the author or George, and I felt very sorry for her parents and for the children.
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