All-Star "cheer World" Book!!!!!

[Cheer Cougar]

Ok so would you all prefer the author called it fiction and changed the names of the gyms and the people involved? Smh

 

[mariahnicole1216]

I just started reading this tonight and I'm currently on chapter 5. I live in IL, took privates at ICC and generally know of all the people she's talking about. I also have a friend that was on the team with her at the time that part 1 was written about. I have to say I feel very uncomfortable reading a lot of this. I've read other cheer books before and lots of shady things happen. But it's another thing to know exactly who is being talked about. Many of the names are not changed. It's honestly hard for me to continue reading and I can't help but feel like writing this book in this manner was a huge mistake on her part.

 

[NEliteSteven]

SkyBlue isn't Morgan's Mom. She's Morgan's Mom's BFF. Shocking, I know...

 

[Ems]

The cover picture makes it look like her arms end at her elbows...

 

[kayleigh]

I just started reading this tonight and I'm currently on chapter 5. I live in IL, took privates at ICC and generally know of all the people she's talking about. I also have a friend that was on the team with her at the time that part 1 was written about. I have to say I feel very uncomfortable reading a lot of this. I've read other cheer books before and lots of shady things happen. But it's another thing to know exactly who is being talked about. Many of the names are not changed. It's honestly hard for me to continue reading and I can't help but feel like writing this book in this manner was a huge mistake on her part.

i know. i know many of the people who she talks about and i see some of them multiple times a week and it makes me so uncomfortable to read.

 

[Mamarazzi]

So, we know ICC and Famous Athletics are part of the jackassery of booboo's novella crapella. Anyone else stepping forward?

 

[cheer coach k]

Naturally all the crazies come out of the woodwork now that this is being discussed. Which one of you wrote it? Because it's safe to assume it was one of the people that keep defending it on this thread. Not to mention, I'm sure the author used a fake name., so I'd love if someone outted the author.

Not a fake name at all. Personally, I think she should have used a fake name! Lol!

 

[cheer coach k]

Synopsis:

I, I, I, I, I.

Sweeps entire cheer world into a stereotype.

I, I, I, but, I and I.

Begins intensive pot smoking training regimen.

I, I, I, I, I.

Uses poor grammar.

I, I, I, I, I.

Snuggles a puppy

I, I, I, I, I.

Possibly an alluded sex scene, but I was skipping to about every third sentence.

I, I, I, I, I.

Reveals purpose of book which is apparently to be "in a relationship" on Facebook.

I, therefore, I. (Just kidding! That's a long word!)

Do you wanna be my new best friend? Love this post.

 

[mollymags]

I hate to admit it, but I bought it and read it as soon as I heard about it. I've been involved in Illinois allstar cheer for about 10 years. The gym I coach at even got a little shout out in the book, but it was possibly the only one she didn't have anything bad to say about.

I'll be honest, I got the book because I wanted to see if it would help fill in some of the gaps in the gossip I've heard over the past few years. What I got was a poorly written story of someone painting herself as a victim while throwing everyone she's worked with under the bus. I won't say that there weren't a lot of things that I knew to be the truth in the book, but honestly, if you're at that many gyms in that amount of time, you need to take a good look in the mirror and ask yourself if you may be part of the problem. There's a lot of monkey business up here, but it takes less effort to stay out of it than it does to get involved. Plenty of gyms in the Chicago suburbs manage to keep their noses out of it and their hands clean.

As for the debate about whether or not it was stupid for this girl to write this book... The book is stupid. It's horribly written. How are you going to write a book about cheerleading and be completely oblivious to some of the terms used (like calling EPs "vendors")? How are you going to write a book and not even attempt to have someone proofread it for you? I think it's stupid of her to have used real names (people AND gyms) unless her whole reason for putting this out was to trash people. She could have easily told "her story" without dragging other peoples' names through the mud. I don't agree with the actions of a lot of the people she talked about, but that doesn't mean I don't feel terrible that this is how the world had to find out about them.

Short review: Read it if your guilty pleasure is trashy gossip (let's be honest, a lot of us love some good juice) but be prepared to roll your eyes so hard at some parts that you might throw the earth off it's axis.

 

[Deleted member 11300]

So just for giggles, lets say the "author" wrote this as fiction. It becomes a Lifetime Monday night movie. "Fifty Shades of Cheerleading". Linsey Lohan as the main character, Charlie Sheen as the boyfriend and the ex basketball Rutgers coach as some cheer coach. Oh and the grammar was checked by Shakespeare. Would it make any difference?

I haven't read book. Don't need to. I left a very well known gym because of the things going on there. Co Ed team having "slumber parties", drinking, drugs, coaches buying alcohol for the kids, getting drunk at Worlds, etc. And what is even worse is that most of the parents know. But hey..kids will be kids and the WIN is the most important thing, right?

The author wanted her 15 minutes of fame. Looks like she gotten her money's worth.

 

[Just-a-Mom]

Ok so would you all prefer the author called it fiction and changed the names of the gyms and the people involved? Smh

Yes. We would all still have known who she was talking about, but she could have saved herself a world of trouble.

Omg mollymags it's like you're inside my brain. I could have written that post word for word. Everything you said is dead on.

Mamarazzi the other gyms that actually get sections of the book are CIA, LZE, and 5 Star. There are others that get mentions, but those are the 5 that she devotees whole sections to. I'm not sure why in some cases she names the gym or person she's talking about, while at other times she just says so-n-so from "another gym in the area" - it only makes it more obvious that her goal was to throw very specific people under the bus. There are sooooooooooo many people/events and whole chapters of this book that could have been left out since they really have absolutely NOTHING to do with her experiences.

I'll be honest, I got the book because I wanted to see if it would help fill in some of the gaps in the gossip I've heard over the past few years. What I got was a poorly written story of someone painting herself as a victim while throwing everyone she's worked with under the bus. I won't say that there weren't a lot of things that I knew to be the truth in the book, but honestly, if you're at that many gyms in that amount of time, you need to take a good look in the mirror and ask yourself if you may be part of the problem. There's a lot of monkey business up here, but it takes less effort to stay out of it than it does to get involved. Plenty of gyms in the Chicago suburbs manage to keep their noses out of it and their hands clean.
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Your whole post, but especially this.

 

[ChiCheerMom]

mollymags - you are dead on. Exactly how I felt after reading.


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[mybabywantstotumble]

I cant help but laugh that you reviewed your own book :p:D

c'mon, we all know ASCheerMan - were you really surprised that he would review his own book?

 

[shadow]

Accidental publication isn't a defense. And, in the case of the defamation being about a normal, not public-type figure, it would actually hurt the person who wrote it, because private citizens only have to prove negligence as the level of fault (not checking that it was true--which would fall on the publisher in this case I would presume).

There are other defenses though--opinion and rhetorical hyperbole.

But since no one (I'm assuming, I didn't read it so I have no idea who she mentioned) in the book is a public figure, they only have to prove negligence instead of actual malice of defamation.

This was a quote from the legal definition, not my writing.
Libel and Slander legal definition of Libel and Slander. Libel and Slander synonyms by the Free Online Law Dictionary.

 

[CoachTamara]

Mamarazzi the other gyms that actually get sections of the book are CIA, LZE, and 5 Star. There are others that get mentions, but those are the 5 that she devotees whole sections to.

Because those are all the gyms she either cheered or coached at... In the span of 3 years. She also bashed Craig from UA, which is where her fiance is now cheering. Real smart.