Happy Mountain

I wanted to like it

Revisado: 06-04-22

The football, human interest story seemed to be really something that I would like...but you don't even start to hear about it until Chapter 10! The history lesson was fascinating and was something about which I was not aware. But it's too much of a history lesson for the premise of this book. I wanted more stories (from the beginning) of the individuals and less background filler such as a letter that FDR wrote or the childhood of "X" government person who was a racist. This is a story about incarceration and should be taught in school. It's not really a story about the football team (again, you don't even start to learn about the team until Chapter10)

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I forced myself to continue

Revisado: 03-04-22

First, let me say that I admire Hillary Clinton and that I voted for her. But if my assistant wrote a book that was about being my assistant and then ass-kissed me this much, I would be mortified!

The beginning of the book is sweet and interesting. A bit long and could be cut back but still it was interesting to hear about her childhood. The death of her father was so very sad. It was still a fairly interesting story through her time as an early White House intern and employee. But then it took a turn. Her anecdotes about her interactions with Hillary Clinton were silly and uninteresting (ok, so you went to her bedroom and had to wake her up and later Hillary Clinton told you to knock loud in the future. Yawn!). Then she tried to make her job sound so important! In reality, she was a logistical person for travel and events. Yes, this requires a lot of detail but it's not involving policy or high level government negotiating. It's just not that important.

She uses the term "HRC" for Hillary Clinton throughout the book and it's really grating. Perhaps if she had said at the beginning that she didn't want to sound disrespectful by referring to her as "Hillary" or "Clinton", it wouldn't have been so bad. She also FAWNS over Hillary Clinton throughout the book. Apparently, "HRC" could do no wrong. The funny thing is that while she is trying to show how important her job is as an assistant to Hillary Clinton and how perfect Hillary Clinton is, she make her sound like a prima donna. I mean why in the world would a Senator need to bring an assistant to a wedding when the assistant wasn't even invited to that wedding (Donald Trumps)? And why in the world does the assistant NEED to be on every single family vacation??

I won't comment on her reasoning about why she stayed married. That's a personal choice. However, her excuses about when she knew things and why she did a press conference and why she filed her divorce on a certain day, and why she withdrew her divorce papers are pure BS! Seriously?! You withdrew your divorce papers because you didn't want your child to see a picture of his dad in an orange jumpsuit, but you then took your kid to visit his dad in prison?! I literally called BS outloud many, many times starting about half-way through this book. She tried to make it seem like she was so poor, yet she lived in a two-story duplex apartment in Manhattan!

This book was too long and too unbelievable. I ended up truly not liking this woman at the end because she just made excuses.

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Starts off great, then gets stupid

Revisado: 10-21-21

The author writes extremely well and he narrates even better so that kept my attention for a long time. But then about half way through, the book goes from being a suspenseful, financial thriller that hints at Japenese Mafia involvement, to just a whiny narrative from a company president that got fired for exposing bad accounting practices that illegally covered company losses. Yes, that's bad but this man loves to tell the reader (listener) over and over and over that he had integrity and that he won so many accolades for exposing such bad things. After he is fired, all he talks about is giving this interview or that interview and in which fancy hotel he stayed. I'm not sure that he actually is considered a whistleblower since he claims that he found out about the company's bad activities in an article that he read. All he did was demand answers from the board and got fired. Of course then he went on his media blitz to save...not the company...but his name. His media blitz resulted in the company losing 75-80% of its stock value. It seems to me that he caused a lot of people to lose their jobs (not just the board) and caused a lot of people to lose a lot of money. I have no sympathy for him and the book is boring after about Chapter 4. Oh, and there isn't any Mafia involvement or any credible threat to his life.

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