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Compelling...the ghost writer loves metaphors

Revisado: 04-05-23

The opening has way too much detail...but the story of his childhood, up to his adult struggles, is really good. Ironically (?) when he pulls his life together it becomes boring and repetitive.

The narrator is ok-but he narrates everything in the same tone, super serious. Appropriate for some scenes, less so for others.

Andre is borderline cruel to some people in his past...but I imagine he was encouraged to go back in time to what he actually thought back then, immaturity and all.

So, I'm being hard on the book. Ultimately, if you like a compelling story, and have followed tennis, you will like this. Even if you don't follow tennis you will get something out of it, even though the extentive parts will probably be lost on you.

To me the most important things are the plight of the child prodigy who gets mercilessly pushed. by his partner, and the young adult who gets pushed by tennis and advertisers as the "bad boy", even if it wasn't necessarily the case.

I am glad I listened to it, by the way. I can't compare, as I didn't read it, but I don't know if that would have been as good.

Ghost writers. There's no way of knowing how much was Agassi's voice...this guy also did Prince Harry, would be interesting to find out how different it is.

If you grew up as a tennis fan I think you'll like this.

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