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Ten Years Later: Six People Who Faced Adversity And Transformed Their Lives (2013)

by Hoda Kotb(Favorite Author)

3.69 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1451656033 (ISBN13: 9781451656039)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Simon & Schuster

review 1: This was a book club read for me, and it wasn't the type of book I would probably otherwise have read (which is one of the great opportunities that book clubs offer to us).I liked it. I found it interesting and somewhat inspiring. But I didn't love it.It didn't give me a deeper desire to be a better person, or give me much food for thought on how to accomplish that desire if it had been instilled. And I like my books to do that for me.At the beginning of each of the six stories, I was very interested and captivated, but somewhere towards the middle they would start to drag a little and seem repetitive and drowning in details to me, and I was anxious to just cut to the end.I guess I shouldn't be surprised by this, because Hoda works in the news media, but every story but on... moree had already been covered in the news - people who had already received national media attention and acclaim. And the other one was someone who had achieved great acclaim working in the news media. Some of these people were so wildly successful that I found it difficult to relate to them.I would have been more inspired if at least some of the stories featured average people who hadn't already had the limelight shown on them and who hadn't done things like build multi-multi-million dollar corporations, but done more simple and basic things - living lives of greatness, but living them quietly and not flamboyantly. ....but that is probably just me.
review 2: This book feels like a Sunday watching Lifetime movies....and in case you think that as a good thing, it was not for me. SIx stories, struggle, sickness, death, ten years later everyone is happy and has moved on. I finished hoping the next story would be better....it was not...I think the idea was good, but the stories, at least in my opinion were not as compelling....In compliance with FTC guidelines, I disclose I received the book for free through Goodreads First Reads. less

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