A Life Worth Living

I loved this book! I will probably read it again. Georgie is one of the most interesting, well rounded, lovely and exciting individuals of whom I have had the pleasure of reading. This book surpasses ANY history book that I have ever read, and that is no exaggeration! I learned more geography from this one person's life than all the books I read in all my schooling. She was so comfortable in the company of king and queens, dukes and duchesses, so many celebrities, the Kennedys, etc. Georgie was born to wealth in 1949 and was blessed with great parents. She lived through some of the best years, very little crime, great music, beautiful apparel and even tho she was born with a gender problem she handled it well and that was eventually solved and she ended up a stunningly beautiful woman. A top New York model known WORLD wide. You will love this book and this super woman!

I adore reading about women like this. She proves that there are women of strength and ability, who stick to their guns and who try to help the unhelpable. I often wondered about Georgia Campbell, I have seen her interviewed and read a couple of her books. I have read her columns. She is an eminently readable author, her books roar across the pages, dragging you by the scruff of the neck, you are breathless and gasping at the end of some chapters....”wtf??” “ I thought that, but it was TRUE ?” Now her autobiography is just the same. She spares no blushes, no horrid details of herself, but is the consummate Lady about everyone else. Good, good read.

She gave an interesting opening account about her family and Jamaican histories, but then very boring exhausting name dropping. Her book was less and less interesting as she went along, especially when she gave unwanted too-private details about her immoral behavior. Two stars for being a writer, enduring her childhood and marriage and adopting her two sons from a Russian orphanage. I only wanted to know about her birth defect, how it was corrected, her title, and how she adopted her sons. Name dropping, too many private disgusting details about her numerous amoral sexual conquests post surgery, including names, and how she abruptly married, without any caution, research, or parental guidance, a creep she'd just met who had a title. I skipped over huge sections to get to the part where she adopted her two sons, after she eventually got a divorce, detailing numerous lawsuits by her abusive husband. Late in the book she added a bizarre tale about how two West African nannies legally tried to steal her adopted sons. My advice to readers is to just know that she was born a sexually deformed girl, became very promiscuous, but claims to be a moral Catholic. Save your money for the book! [I have no clue whatsoever why she now calls herself Lady Colin Campbell, keeping the name of a sicko wife beater ex-husband, but that goes along with why she married him: to get a title.

Despite declaring long and loudly that she wanted to use her given name, Georgia Ziadie, she has certainly cashed in on that "Lady Colin Campbell" gig. She proclaims that she doesn't need to be taught a lesson twice, but continued to allow her demented husband to brutally mistreat her for months. I doubt if much of this narrative has a lot to do with reality. She only wanted to hear her own name, and, voila, Saint Lady is born.

I actually enjoyed this book. I found Lady Colin to be a very good writer and her story about her life very interesting. And as a result, I bought her book Daughter of Narcissus which is about her mother. But there is a huge discrepancy since references to her mother in this book indicate her to be a nice person. Loving and kind. Her mother in the other book is described as a very disturbed and abusive woman. Can’t imagine why something that significant wasn’t remotely mentioned in this book. To tell her life story and not mention it makes no sense unless there is more fiction than fact in her writing.

I feel sorry that the woman has had to deal with all the difficulties she has! She has emerged triumphant from her travails and I congratulate her! She has an inspiring and positive story to tell and I wish er nothing but peace and happiness in the future! She certainly deserves it!

It would have been an interesting story by an interesting women if not for her CONSTANTLY referring to herself as an absolutely unbelievable beauty. She was a pretty women when young as most of us were, but devastatingly beautiful as she called herself........ Not. Also the name dropping got kinda old soon. All in all a good read though.

Whilst I feel for the author's terrible and difficult start in life, I got the feeling that the whole book was simply about name dropping. Very disappointing, esp considering the ridiculously high prices one has to pay for books on Kindle. Read about 10% of the book and then gave up. Once again money wasted.

A most fascinating and detailed autobiography with so many dimensions. Certainly a privilege to read, though at times the many frightening and distressing events were almost too much to take in. Thankfully the strength and courage of this brave lady have sustained her life allowing her to not only rise above such turmoil but offer support and joy to others through her many charitable works. Certainly a Life Worth Living.

Lady Colin Campbell is a person who endured great misfortune as a child, being born as a girl but with physically malformed genitalia which caused her father to raise her as a boy. She fought over time to be recognised as female and was eventually able to get the surgery she needed, after much resistance from her father. Her father even forced her to undergo psychological treatment and even drugs to make her accept that she was male.Her memories of growing up in Jamaica are interesting, her family being important on the island.Despite all this she was able to carve her career as a model and then as a successful writer. She in fact was the first writer to break the story that the Prince and Princess of Wales' marriage was in trouble, which drew a lot of attacks at the time but in retrospect she had the most balanced view of all the commentators who mostly take Princess Diana's side of the dispute. She had many contacts in British society circles, whilst firmly keeping her feet on the ground.Her own marriage breakup was sad especially as the family of her ex husband have continually used their aristocratic position to try to assassinate her character.Overall this is a moving and interesting story.

I loved Lady CC on IACGMOOH, it was great to see a 'woman of a certain age' not allowing the MCP's to browbeat her. She really stood her ground & stayed classy too. Reading about her life was an eye-opener. I must admit I did keep thinking "why did she put up with so much abuse & not walk away earlier" re her ex but I guess things were different in the 70's. She had a difficult childhood too, which does colour your relationships as an adult.Well I'm glad it all made her stronger & it sounds like she is happy now.Well written, had to look a few things up (Google/Wikipedia to the rescue) regarding the history of Jamaica, the British class system & peerages, inherited titles etc. Also went down a rabbit hole researching Lord Colin Ivar Campbell; all very interesting.

Well, a lady in name only it seems. Large parts of the book deal with her sexual encounters. A real lady does not kiss and tell, and kiss more, and tell more, ad nauseam.To call the book "A Life Worth Living" is something of an exaggeration. There is more to living than being a self obsessed socialite who seems to have spent a large part of her life either partying or flat on her back.I found her complaints about the British obsession with social class particularly amusing, coming from someone who demonstrated again and again, despite her denials, that she considered herself to be way more than a cut above the rest of the planet. It did not take much reading between the lines to realise that she considers the Zaidie family as the pinnacle of evolution. Why, I must ask, if she dislikes the British class system so much, and generally seems to dislike the British, does she hold onto her title? Double standards at their greatest.

This book started off being quite interesting but then I started to struggle as it just became more and more name dropping by the author of people that I knew and didn't care about and people that I had no idea who they were. I gave up half way through.