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Dream on: Livin' on the Edge With Steven Tyler and Aerosmith

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As a close relation of Steven Tyler now and during the time he was married to the author, Cyrinda Foxe, I know about their relationship quite well. This book is full of ridiculous exaggerations and fabrications. It's not even entertaining, but it does manage to be both whiny and a great instant headache. Poor Ms. Foxe, who only receives some $300 weekly in alimony never stops complaining. This is what you'll want to say to her: Get a job, stop trying to mooch off of a man you divorced when he was broke, and turn yourself off.

This is a good book full of juicy details, but Ms. Foxe-Tyler seems angry with Steven Tyler through the entire book. She makes him out to be the bad guy! Maybe being married to him wasn't a walk in the park, but she needs to let go of the past and stay out of his life. I recommend this book to any Aerosmith fan.

As a seeker of all that is Aerosmith, I have a certain thirst for knowledge of Steven Tyler. Cyrinda Foxe-Tyler's book refreshed my thirst and brought up some new areas for deliberation. Foxe-Tyler fills in some blanks left by WALK THIS WAY. At times she sounds bitter and although she makes some unbelievable claims, many are consistent with Steven Tyler's accounts. She confirms some of our suspicions, breaks our hearts with others, and lets of those intimate tidbits flow that all of us Steven Tyler fans have been dying to know.

This book is about Steven Tyler, Cyrinda's life gives us insight as to the type of person Steven Tyler is, by his choices made in women, wine (or Tuinals) & song. Whether the book is a cock-and bull story or exactitude, it doesn't change the most important thing-the music. If you are a female fan of Steven Tyler's, buy this book, if nothing else, for the prologue.

My rating for Foxe-Tyler's book is - 7 !!! (But JFP gets a larger number.)

It's said that one should not speak ill of the dead. But "Dream On: Livin' On the Edge With Steven Tyler and Aerosmith" might leave you wanting to do just that for Cyrinda Foxe-Tyler, the late ex-wife of Steven Tyler and (by her own admission) a huge pain in the backside. Foxe-Tyler's autobiography is a slow embittered grind that seems less like a recounting of her own life than an endless stream of seedy recountings about just what a jerk her ex is.

Born to a moody abusive mother with a penchant for marrying various moody abusive men, Cyrinda (then Kathleen Victoria Hetzekian -- although she refuses to reveal the last, because "I want to leave my father out of this") was a miserable military brat lugged around the globe.

Her refuges: rock'n'roll (Elvis, the Beatles, the Stones), light drug use, and sexual experimentation with the boys on base... and pretty soon, her life was all about those three things. Before long, she had left Oklahoma and Texas behind for the bright lights of the big city, namely New York -- courtesy of Lou Reed and a pair of Danish black boots. And despite being "the most naive, cotton-candy-headed being in the world," Cyrinda quickly established herself in Max's Kansas City, NYC's gay underworld, and Andy Warhol.

And then after a brief first marriage (her first husband is a faceless footnote), she met, got pregnant by and married Steven Tyler, the volatile and popular singer for the band Aerosmith. But of course passion doesn't last forever, and despite having a beautiful daughter between them, their acrimonious marriage was doomed from the start.

There are two kinds of rock wives/paramours: the classy and genuinely intelligent ones like Marianne Faithfull and Bebe Buell, and then there are the Angela Bowie ones who want to shovel dirt on their exes. Cyrinda is solidly in the latter grouping -- "Dream On: Livin' On the Edge With Steven Tyler and Aerosmith" seems to exist solely to smack her ex-husband in the head as frequently as possible, and often as tastelessly as possible (the "dive for it" anecdote is revolting).

When she isn't heaping dirt on Tyler's head, Cyrinda devotes most of the book to ranting randomly about various topics -- she raves about gays, her hatred of religion, her aversion to getting a job (to the point of sleeping with people for room and board) and how she is cooler and more in tune with young people and sex than her contemporaries. She also seems a bit fixated on her own sexual exploits, ranging from unofficial prostitution to a threesome with David and Angela Bowie to voyeuristic peeking at others having sex.

And her embitterment spreads to everything in this book, including other members of Steven Tyler's family --she gets in some digs at his ex-lover Buell and daughter Liv, barely acknowledges his second wife Teresa, and utterly ignores his third and fourth kids.

And it's undeniable that Tyler was a drug-addled mess for countless years... and that's just what his friends say. But despite her seedy anecdotes about Tyler, the person who is most degraded in "Dream On" is Cyrinda herself -- she comes across as lazy (how dare her ex not hire a full-time nanny for someone who refuses to get a job!), hypocritical (she demonizes Tyler for abuse, while proudly talking about the gouges she left in his face -- by her own admission not the only ones) and generally deluded about how others see her ("You're too intellectual!"). Not to mention deluded about her own place in life (seeing herself as an "aristocrat" compared to Aerosmith).

"Dream On: Livin' On the Edge With Steven Tyler and Aerosmith" is a sad memoir of a sad woman, whose bitterness wasn't exorcised until the very end of her life. And that bitterness coats every page of her autobiography, leaving you feeling vaguely unclean.

I loved it. The book showed me a side of Steven that was different from anything I knew. Ture or not we will never know we didn't live their lives so we can not judge in anyway. I felt Cyn was telling us a tale of time when she fell apart and couldn't help the man she loved. The guilt of not being there for him when he needed her. The guilt of someone else taking her place. This is a book of a girl trying if find her place in world of choa. A must read to the open minded Areosmith fan

This is an excellent behind the scenes look at the plight of the rock wife. Cyrinda lays it down in a way anybody can relate to.

Extremely sensetive and acurate account of a real life experience , living as the wife of one of the most important rock stars in the world. Cyrinda Foxe emerged from a very trendy and creative Warhol crowd and with true intentions of deep love and happines, plunged into a marriage of HELL. Being from Europe, her explanation of the daily life of rock and roll was fascintating for me. I know that people would like to think that stars are perfect but we are all mortal and full of aberations. The most fascinating and touching point was how Cyrinda was able with out any help to extract herself and her daughter Mia from that living inferno. If you are an adult and want the truth beyond the hype and glory of corporate rock and roll, this is the book you have to read. Sorry for my English but I am not from your country.

i found it very hard to sympathyze with cyrinda. she sounds entirely too bitter about the fact that he has money and she doesnt.She makes herself out to be this innocent girl in love,and was totally taken advantage of.I think she got what she asked for.usa

I thought Cyrinda's Bitterness showed thru in many aspects of this book!It should of been named "I want to talk about Myself But Let me put Stevens pic on the cover"considering Both her & Steven were admitted heavy drug abusersduring the time they were married How factual can either of them be?

Having read this book, and things Ms. Foxe has said in other books, it's easy to see that she is bitter about not getting more money out of Steven Tyler. She manages to gloss-over the fact that she dumped her first husband, David Johansen, for the wealthy Tyler. All in all, her ranting makes for an annoying, uninformative read.