33 year old lawyer

Very old fashioned and sexist

Revisado: 11-03-24

Strange book. A book about a young woman growing up in the 1920s or 30s after her mother dies.

Could have been interesting but it's very old fashioned and very sexist. I also didn't like any of the characters.

Because the writing is somewhat formal and a bit precious, I initially thought the narrator was well suited to the material; ultimately, though, I found the narrator very grating and almost couldn't finish.

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Britney Dpears' family should be in prison

Revisado: 12-03-23

Michelle Williams did a phenomenal job. I thought the author's voice came through pretty well.

There were a lot of details missing, but I understand she has a persona to protect and ongoing details with her parents.

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One dimensional

Revisado: 12-31-22

It was interesting enough that I finished, but the author's narration was rushed and had no affect. The mother was also kind of a one dimensional narcissist. If there is a second printing, I think the book would benefit as to more background as to WHY the mother was the way she was, and more family dynamics, generally.

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A short and deferential biography

Revisado: 07-20-22

I was disappointed at the length. I also felt it was overly deferential to Musk. He had the last word on everything.

I wish Vance would update this. There is now far more material on just about every aspect of Musk's life.

Since this was done in 2015, it seems very incomplete when read in 2022.

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Fairly superficial. Ends shortly after Spin City

Revisado: 10-07-21

So, Michael J. Fox was bright and likable but there were few details on anything or anything unexpected.

I felt like this was missing something...

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Insufferably self-absorbed narcissist gets cancer

Revisado: 09-25-21

I had read two memoirs about ovarian cancer...Liz Tilberis' and Gilda Radner's. Both excellent with Tilberis' maybe being a bit better in my mind in the sense that she is more likable than Radner, even though I was a huge Radner fan.

(I am very interested in medical topics generally.)

Unfortunately, this author is a self absorbed narcissist who spends 99 percent of the book pitying herself...the book is a litany of complaints and feeling sorry for herself on every subject imaginable: people's comments when trying to talk about her cancer aren't what she wants even when they are trying to be helpful--so she mocks them; her doctors can do no right, the procedures are painful, she'd rather die than do surgeries and chemo because she shouldn't have to subject herself to this--but then she does them and just complains about every imaginable aspect, she hates her mother, why does her elderly mother keep asking her to do things? Etc. She notes that the word chemotherapy contains the word, "mother", and has nothing but terrible things to say about her. (Her father apparently died by suicide.)

She also spends most of the book name dropping various authors and books, which seems snobbish and distracting.

The other thing about this book is that as of fall of 2021, the author is still alive, which makes her constant self-pitying about why she has to do chemo and subject herself to surgical procedures when they can't even cure her, seem that much more insufferable and obnoxious...her doctors bought her many more years. Years for which many people would be profoundly grateful.

There's one small portion of a chapter towards the end when she expressed some gratitude, but it's like a drop of rain in the desert, and evaporated as quickly, before she began complaining again.

Sometimes she acts like she is an advocate for medical research in ovarian cancer, but the book always immediately lapses into self involvement.

I finished it, but it was difficult.

I wish her well in her prognosis, but I would never read anything of this woman's again.

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Obsolete after new documentary

Revisado: 07-03-21

I didn't like the narration at all, and more importantly, the new documentary featuring Bundy based off Michaud's book, featuring live interviews with the author and excerpts of calls with Bundy, renders this material obsolete.

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Riveting

Revisado: 05-03-21

Terrific narration of a fascinating time. I thought I already knew most of this, but I still learned. a great deal.

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Kind of lacking

Revisado: 06-29-20

I find her very likable, but this memoir was not very revealing. In fact, what was strange to me was that I think she was the true believer in Scientology principles, and became bitter when she was not recognized as such, and was eclipsed by Cruise within the Church. I did understand some of the therapeutic appeal of it, although I never would have let them have so much control. Very little about non Cruise scientologists and she seems to have met him only a couple of times. Her career and personal life are also explored only cursorily.....maybe that's a reflection of how much it consumed her....

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Fun but ultimately not satisfying; too silly.

Revisado: 08-29-19

Wonderful narrator. Started out great. No spoilers but it starts off interesting, then becomes funny and absurd. So, three hours in, I am loving it. But the end is not satisfying...author can't wrap it up or come to more serious conclusions. Fyi, I am a litigator. The legal plot does not make much sense...

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