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 No sugar coating here May 8, 2008
Sandi (south)
13 out of 16 found this review helpful
Barbara Walters doesn't sugar coat her life. Good for her! If you're going to tell your life story you need to tell the good, bad, and the ugly. And she does just that. I have even more respect for the woman now. She admits her mistakes in her affair and her broken marriages. She also admits the guilt she feels for her relationship with her disabled sister. The book was a little longwinded but an interesting read about an interesting and influential woman.
Enjoyed it very much May 7, 2008
Writer (USA)
4 out of 10 found this review helpful
It is long, but I really enjoyed it. She has been a part of our lives for so very long, and has provided much enjoyment over the years. This is a good read.
Editor of Michele Cozzens' award winning women's fiction A Line Between Friends
Good but one thing I don't like May 7, 2008
Frank Scoblete (New York)
6 out of 20 found this review helpful
Is revealing the old flames when those people have families that can be destroyed. Otherwise this is a fascinating book about a pioneer in television.
 Way too long May 7, 2008
Kellysmile
47 out of 89 found this review helpful
I've gotten into reading memoirs lately and I thought this one would be decent because of all the press it has received. Not my cup of tea. Mrs. Walters is an impressive woman, but reading about her life is not impressive. This book is just way too long (600 pages) and would have been much better if she just picked the most exciting parts of her life to write about. Oh yeah, for Rosie fans, the stuff in here about Mrs. Odonnel is pretty funny.
 Some things are better left unsaid May 7, 2008
Self Helper (New York)
64 out of 131 found this review helpful
I would not go as far as to call her a "ho", as the previous reviewer did, but-come on.. forget for a moment that this is Barbara..This is a woman who was married 3 times, had an affair with a man, knowing all too well that he had a wife and children. And she did it for a period of two years! No one gets to be where she is by playing by the rules-let's face it, underneath that "classy" persona, she's a social climber, and a tough and a cruel fighter. Playing for sympathy today as she talks how she knowingly missed her sister's death while promoting her own career in Wisconsin... Yes, I know what you'll say-No one is perfect; to err is human. But this, after all, is a person who made her career on being a "true professional". And after admitting her sins, she readily goes on every possible show of every possible network in the Universe trying to promote those very transgressions she says she's feeling a great remorse about.
In this book, not only she's selling her own "secrets", she is freely embarrassing others. The senator, her ex, who in all likelyhood, has forgotten she ever existed, her daughter's teenage struggles, Rosie's personal shortcomings, Star's tackiness.
She slept with her first boss in television - also married with 2 kids. Whose husband hadn't she sleep with? There were at least 3 other affairs (of course everyone was "separated" the way she tells it) before she even got to the senator. Down right pathetic. She's lucky she got through all these train wrecks unscathed. So why detract attention away from her accomplishments by focusing on her obvious neediness and bad taste in men? At her age it's embarrassing that she doesn't know any better.
Just because she says she feels guilty now, does not excuse anything. Come on, read between the lines! The only reason for this "human" sentimentality is because she expects you to pay $30 for the book... that's all!
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