Random Acts of Badness: My Story

Random Acts of Badness: My Story

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Editorial Reviews

anny Bonaduce, the former poster boy of bad behavior, became an 'amazingly well-adjusted adult human being' in his late 30s after kicking years of addictions. He embarked on a wonderfully successful marriage and second career as one of the country's top celebrity radio disc jockeys. 'People tend to ask me questions. I guess I'm just that kind of guy. I've been asked at least a million questions by thousands of people over the years and that doesn't even include the TV talk circuit. Still, after all that, there are some questions that give me pause. 1. Did the Partridge Family play their own instruments? 2. Did you know the hooker you picked up in Phoenix was a really a man? 3. Are you ever going to write a book? The answer to all three has always been an emphatic NO! Well, at least one of those answers is about to change.'

Customer Reviews

A truly wonderful read!

Reviewed by Tracy Thompson, 2008-12-09

I wasn't sure what to expect when I sat down to read Random Acts. By the end of the prologue, just four pages, I knew that I absolutely loved this book! It's sometimes dark, sometimes sad, sometimes even tragic, but always, ALWAYS funny. I cried a little, I laughed a lot and once or ten times I did both at the same time. I not only peeked through a small window into the life and soul of Danny Bondauce, I also took away lessons on life, perseverance and love. At it's core this book is really a love letter from Danny to his wife, and I think anyone who reads it will feel as fortunate as I do just because we were allowed inside the madness at all.

Bonaduce is hilarious

Reviewed by Andrea, 2008-09-01

I love Danny Bonaduce's radio program, and he is hilarious. This book is very honest about his life and former years of substance abuse. I would recomend this book to anyone who enjoys Breaking Bonaduce, or any of Danny Bonaduce's radio shows. You won't find much in here about the Partridge Family, if that's what you expect to read. Mr. Bonaduce describes his various legal scrapes, he is witty and his stories are funny, I cannot help but laugh the comedy and the irony of it all. Unlike other celebrity biographies, Danny Bonaduce does not blame others for his issues, takes full accountability for his actions. "Random Acts of Badness" is light-hearted, funny, and upbeat.
A note to any perspective readers, the book is out of print, and I looked extensively for an affordable copy on Ebay, but that was hard to come by,and those sellers were charging outrageous amounts for the book. The only other site I was able to find copies of this book was on Mr. Bonaduce's website, and he was not charging as much as the sellers on Ebay were! I recommend buying a copy here on Amazon. com because this book was hard to come by.

SAD, DEPRESSING, STOMACH-TURNING AUTOBIOGRAPHY THAT CONTAINS TOO MUCH INFORMATION

Reviewed by Mediaman, 2008-07-30

Someone decided to let Bonduce rant about his life and it ain't pretty. This overly-long book is filled with page after page of gross stories, from his doing drugs age 12 to his terrible treatment of co-stars to his demeaning opinions about his family.

Danny tries to make you believe that he is not the typical Hollywood egotistical star, yet most of the stories he tells slam other people and attempt to make himself look good even though he knows he is doing terrible, terrible things. It's all here in gory detail.

He writes in an ADHD style, which is too hyper and hard to follow. The book needs MAJOR editing and research--it's probably twice as long as need be and admittedly contains possible misinformation. He even admits at one point that he refused to find out if his remembrances were accurate and that this was just his recollections of what happened to him, even if they weren't all true!

Those looking for Partridge Family dirt aren't going to find much--he only spends a couple dozen pages on the TV show and most of that has to do with losing girls to his male co-stars. He claims he doesn't want to rehash what others have told in books, but it comes across as just lazy writing from a guy who can't recall those years.

I want to like this book because I enjoy Danny on TV--but I ended up disgusted after reading the non-strop profanity-filled exploits. His redemption supposedly came when he married a "Christan" woman (who marries a guy on the first date?) and at the time the book was written (Hardcover in 2001) they were still together--but many things have changed since then (including his divorce and shocking reality TV show about his marital counseling) and the tragedy that his life has become today has the seeds planted in his childhood as described in this book. Why didn't his parents care enough to discipline this kid? He is still looking for someone who loves him enough to say "no" and put up with a guy who is going to continue to push boundaries to check to see if he is really loved.

In the end it's a sad story, one that he maybe should not have told in so much detail. Or maybe someone else should have told it more objectively. You come away not feeling sorry for him but feeling bad for the many people he has hurt.

Excellent book I read in 2 days.

Reviewed by C. B. Spence, 2008-07-17

This book was incredible! Very candid and funny and hard to put down. I will be lending it to many others to enjoy!

Great

Reviewed by bronwynsbooks, 2006-12-14

Loved this book. Very well written and worth reading even though it was published 5 years ago. Could not put it down!