Audition: A Memoir by Barbara Walters Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Audition: A Memoir
Book Review: A Good Read
Summary: 5 Stars
Very detaied and very interesting. Also very fair in her opinions. What a facinating life. I am a slow reader and took a week to read it, but I ENJOYED EVERY WORD!!Book Review: A Very Honest and Insightful Book.
Summary: 5 Stars
I was looking forward to this book coming out. I thought for a long time Barbara Walters should write an autobiography and that she could have a lot to share with the public. And I was not wrong.
Barbara Walters clearly paved the way for female journalists everywhere, and for that she should be applauded. She has interviewed world leaders, celebrities, royalty, sports stars and the infamous alike. And she has done so with ease on camera and a lot of hard work off.
I was very impressed of her writing in the book her determination and tenacity she displayed on trying to "get" the most wanted people in the public eye at the time. And I found it easy to read in how the book was compartmentalized into the different types of people she interviewed.
There were three things that bothered me in reading the book that did not take away from my rating, but more on how I felt about Barbara Walters, and that was in the way she discussed and viewed her family, the way she gave backhanded compliments to some of the people she discussed and how she always had to add the little extra in her description that made her sound as if she was bragging (i.e. - instead of saying she was on vacation, she had to say she was on vacation on a yacht ....) I felt those things were unnecessary and showed she is not very humble.
I was very disturbed on how I felt she sort of turned her back on her family. Through the later chapters in the book, she kept on stating how guilty she felt that she was not with her mother, father & sister when they died and how she wished she did more for them in their failing health.
I did not find that all that believable. More that she had to add that now because it made her not look like a very nice woman.
But those character flaws are what make the book so good. I felt she was very honest and I enjoyed her book very much.
Book Review: Audition
Summary: 4 Stars
Candid and insightful. The book reads like a conversation with an old friend. Quite an enjoyable read. Amazing memories of the most influential figures of our time.Book Review: AUDITION
Summary: 5 Stars
I just finished reading Barbara Walter's "Audition." It felt like Barbara was sitting in my living room just talking about her life. And what a wonderously exciting life it has been.
Thank you, Barbara, for sharing!
Book Review: Tid Bit Hungry's Dream
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a long book but Ms. Walters has been around a long time so she has much to share with us. I found the book very interesting because Ms. Walters goes into great depth, behind the scenes so to speak, to tell her personal story. Frankly, I had a hard time putting the book down. It was that good. Ms. Walters has written her story, her way by her rules and the honesty and emotion are all there for us. Bravo Barbara!