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4.0 AVERAGE
4.0 AVERAGE
It’s not personal
It’s not personal, Katie. I wasn’t much of a morning show viewer, but I’d sometimes watch the Today Show in my hotel when I was traveling and you always seemed lovely. And this is a perfectly good celebrity autobiography. Just turns out that I’m not that interested in celebrity autobiographies.
It’s not personal, Katie. I wasn’t much of a morning show viewer, but I’d sometimes watch the Today Show in my hotel when I was traveling and you always seemed lovely. And this is a perfectly good celebrity autobiography. Just turns out that I’m not that interested in celebrity autobiographies.
I woke up every morning to Katie Couric and loved her voice once again as she shared her life from starting in the industry to today. There were a lot of honest moments and she shows just how hard she had to work to be as successful as she has been. Thoroughly enjoyed and learned a lot!
Katie’s had an interesting life. I really enjoyed her reflections on her interviews and professional work over the years. That being said the rest felt pretty cheesy and fake, like she had something to prove. Especially the section about Matt Lauer. Didn’t love didn’t hate.
Definitely go with the audiobook on this as Katie does the reading. I’ve been a fan of Katie’s since the early 1990s when I first started watching the Today show. I love following her on social media and feel like I know her. I’m not typically a fan a memoir, so four stars is high praise. There were a few spots where I was ready for her to move on but mostly I was interested. Her honesty and authenticity shine through. Finished just in time to hear her speak Friday in Los Angeles.
I accidentally listened to this book in two days. I didn’t realize I had already finished until it got to the acknowledgments (thank you, Katie, for including the acknowledgements in the audiobook). I avoided this book for a while, because I just really don’t care all that much about all the vendettas it seemed like the book would contain. And there definitely are some vendettas in the pages of “Going There,” but I really appreciate that Couric names her own short comings while detailing how others let her down as well. I was so intrigued by her honesty and the way she wrestled with how she put the big picture of “history” in front of her own best interest, or put her own best interest in front of helping other women. Katie clearly has learned a lot from her own experiences, and it seems like we have a lot to learn from her as well.
This was a good audio book because it's narrated by Katie! I grew up watching the Today show so hearing Katie's voice almost felt like a warm hug. Growing up and even in college, I always had a dream of becoming a news anchor, so Katie was always an idol for me. Her autobiography was LONG and had quite a bit of name dropping, but overall, I really enjoyed her vulnerability and honesty. Also, the audiobook includes real snippets of interviews/reporting which was cool!
Five stars is kind of a rounding up—but really this book is engrossing and full of the kind of dish you always want and rarely get in full from these kinds of memoirs. Is Katie a bit self-congratulatory? Yes. Is she also wildly down-to-earth and aware of how weird her world is? Yes. Has she experienced tragic losses and kept her sunny disposition despite them? Yes. Did she maybe first marry a guy who sounds like he could’ve turned out to be a wacky Trumper had he lived? Maybe. I enjoyed the Today Show parts the most, and of course half read this for the Matt Lauer bits (I always hated him and found him lechy. I couldn’t watch the today show after she left—he was too awful), which she more than comes through with. It’s a very honest, very no-holds-barred story, for better and worse, and it’s well-written.
I appreciated this book and the searing honesty of Katie Couric! She really does "go there" many times in this fairly long and detailed memoir. I listened to the audio version, and it incorporates the original audio from some of her past interviews. She looks back at some of her stories and interviews and is honest about what she got wrong in hindsight, and it's just interesting to see how our understanding of various issues has evolved over time.