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4.33 AVERAGE
4.33 AVERAGE
slow-paced
This was chock-full of so many great things and events. The only audiobooks I can listen to are memoirs. I love it and this time... I struggled. Billie Jean King is a terrible narrator. This book was insanely long and there's a lot of name-dropping and it took me out of the flow. She's an amazing woman and this does not take that away from her, at all. You just can't do everything! I had my audio at 2X and it was still too slow. That being said, it was great hearing about all her experiences, struggles, and how she overcame them. She's a tennis player but this isn't really about tennis. It's more about her and her life through tennis. Thank you, Billie Jean King, for all the AMAZING things you have done for women. *applaud*
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I didn’t really know the extent Billie Jean King helped shape the world of professional tennis. It was a real surprise to get to hear about all her ventures. She talks about the people in her life a lot, so keep that in mind while reading. Toward the end there were some really deep insights about her. Overall I really enjoyed it.
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Billie Jean King really hit her stride in the middle of the story, maybe around page 150 to 350. The beginning and the end seemed a little bit self-righteous - she did more telling than showing. A good memoir is all about the story and literary value (e.g. artistry), but an autobiography has that tricky balancing act of putting a personal experience into historical context, and I don't think that King quite pulled it off. It would have been better as a biography, with the distance of a third person from the outside. I also felt like King left a legacy of saying nice things about everybody (even people who potentially didn't deserve that latitude) and I wanted a little bit of bite (there are in fact assholes out there, whom she met). I have immense respect for King and am glad her legacy is celebrated; the book itself is uneven but it is probably still worth a read.