However, it's by no means a salacious tell-all. I think highly conservative people may not enjoy reading about her experience with Ronald Reagan or a particular choice she made in her life. Some of her stories might shock you even though she never goes into any explicit details. Laurie is not scared to talk about her many lovers. Laurie's narrative is very charming and while she remembers a lot of specifics there are some failings of memory that are natural for someone who has had such a long and interesting life as she had. Her writing style takes some getting used to but once you dive in you don't want to put the book down. Piper Laurie's autobiography was an absolute pleasure to read. There were three phases of her career, her B movie/ Universal film career as a young starlet, her work in the late 1950s and early 1960s, then her work as an older woman starting from Carrie (1976) and on to various movies and TV shows. After The Hustler, she didn't make films for quite a long time but continued to act in theater and on TV. Laurie eventually got out of her contract and started making better pictures including The Hustler (1961). She had a 7 year contract with Universal which got her several B movies that left her frustrated as an actress. By the age of 17, and with some theatre experience under her belt, Rosetta became Piper Laurie the film star. This experience proved very traumatic for the young Rosetta who just wanted to be loved by her parents, especially her mom. At a very young age, her parents sent her off to a sanitarium with her older sister Sherrye. The book reads chronologically from the very beginning of her life as Rosetta Jacobs and continues on to her movie and acting career as Piper Laurie. I think it's a wonder she became a movie star! It took her years just to be able to laugh out loud and speak up for herself. It was less shyness and more just an innate instinct to be quiet and listen. The title "Learning to Live Out Loud" stems from the actress' problems with being able to vocalize. Piper Laurie is not having a conversation with her readers, she doesn't even acknowledge them, she's just telling the story of her life and all the people who happened to be a part of it. This is much different than the conversational style of Ernest Borgnine's autobiography. Film actress Piper Laurie wrote this autobiography in a storytelling style. The autobiographer presents his or her story with a layer of nostalgia and a sense of pain that is the result of drudging up the past in a way that no biographer can. Any good biographer can dig up the facts on an important figure but they cannot present those facts with personal context. It's a given that reading an autobiography is a much different experience than reading a biography. "I had achieved my childhood dream of becoming a movie star and then left it all behind for a second career as a serious actor." - Piper Laurie
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