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Summary: Read it tonight!
Review: I received this book as a gift, and I must say it is one of the best gifts I have ever been given. It really shed some light on the things I need to pay attention to in my life. I had got so caught up in other things, but this book snapped me back to reality. She only reccomends advice from her own experience. It may not work for you, but it worked for me. It's a quick read, so if her advice isn't good enough for you, it's not a big waste of time. But I think you'll find it a worthwile investment.
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Summary: How do you measure success?
Review: Anytime a public figure, celebrity, successful business man, your next door neighbor is willing to open their door and let you see them standing naked, you should make the best out of it. This is a great story that is told with warm honesty that is not easily matched. The best part about this book is that a person has come to the point where she has the power to be a guide to us all, and she did by being herself. That is the beauty of this one. This is how I measure success.
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Summary: A Gift for Young Women
Review: "Ten Things I Wish I'd Known Before I Went into The Real World" is very inspiring and motivating, espescially for young women like me. It's more important that the book written by Maria Shriver, a member of the great Kennedy family, who is 'different' from the other members of the family. (How should I explain the word 'different' here? She is different indeed). Reading the book, I beleive in the differences more.I am also a young mother, a presenter at a jazz radio station in Bandung Indonesia, and I'm glad to know that Maria cancelled an interview with Kuba's President Fidel Castro for her child's first day school. It convinced me that children and family are the most important in the life of a women. I also agree with Maria that marriage is a hard work, and I appreciate she do hers well. I wish this book could be translated into Bahasa Indonesia, as a gift for young Indonesian women.
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Summary: Insightful-but funny
Review: It is amazing what insight she has for a woman of her age . She is learning her life lessons well and teaching us along the way. I wish a book like this was available to me when I was starting my life's journey. I have already recommended it to friends and family,and hopefully they enjoyed it as much as I did.
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Summary: A Great Gift
Review: This is a great little book. Maria Shriver describes the lessons learned while climbing the network news ladder and starting a family. Interesting and funny, it is especially good for someone just starting out. Though the book isn't an autobiography, Shriver chronicles the steps she took to become a network news anchor. Most salient is her message that only through hard work and honesty does one gain self-respect and respect from others. This is something most of us know, but it is interesting to read how Shriver applies this to her own life. I gave this book four stars instead of five, only because I wish it were longer.
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Summary: Honest succinct advice.. Give to your grads.
Review: I saw Maria on Larry King and was amazed at how honest she was with him, so I thought I would look at this book. Yes, it is an honest good simple advice book. Kids NEED this advice. Simple and succinctly. Go with your gut. (what you like and are good at!) Laughter is VIP! Don't forget right and wrong! Wow! She unabashedly thanks and refers to God in this! Marriage is work.. When you become a mom, the work has to give. BOY! I really could relate to this one. It was so validating seeing someone who had done the same thing I had done. Yet she was doing it under a microscope. I am inspired.. Read the book... Don't just say.. yea yea yea she's a Kennedy.. easy for her. Read it and relate.. think about what is important and do it. Oh yea.. Thank God too!
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Summary: Maria's Imagined World
Review: After sifting through this slim book and stumbling across Maria's sales pitch on two news magazines, I'd like to warn readers away from buying into her vision of her life. This is a woman who still lives in fantasy land - one that her publishers support, since she's unfortunately become a celeb and one that can sell just about anything. Witness her whining in the book about how computer illiterate she is, how the internet is still a mystery to her, and I mean mystery in that she's never used it. This woman is a professional journalist . . . supposedly at the top and she regards the internet as a mystery? That's just one indication alone of her real life - one full of assistants who undoubtably have used the internet to feed her research for her stories, nannies, maids and other celeb type staffers who help her maintain a lifestyle out of reach for the audience whom she addresses in this book. She's no more "one of the girls" than Ivana Trump. The book itself is a terrific concept, except Maria's not the one to really tell it like it is. She doesn't have a clue about herself and her audience, and exhibits absolutely no intellectual awareness, which is truly sad considering the kinds of opportunities that are open to women today in business, law and other fields less shallow than tv. She comes off as well intentioned, but underneath is clearly deceived by her own ambitions for fame. Don't buy into it. Neither her viewpoints or advice are particularly relevant for most young women today.
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Summary: Ten things I wish I'd known
Review: I'm a femal reader, I think I expected more from this book. In my opinion, this book is very superficial. There is no question that Maria Shriver is a very accomplished person,but as far as her book is concerned, I think she is better in her special reports on TV.
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Summary: An Excellent Graduation - or any time - Gift
Review: This book is a "Cliff Notes" for life - an excellent gift for graduates and worthy of review for those who have been "out in the real world" for awhile. It grew out of a commencement speech the author gave at Holy Cross College. Encouraged by audience members and her friend, Oprah Winfrey, she has expanded it into book form.Each chapter is arranged around a guiding precept detailed by anecdotes in her interesting and inspirational life. For instance: "Starting at the bottom builds character. It makes you hungry and determined. It is also a good way to find out, stunning as it may be, that you are not as smart as you think you are. " She then goes on to tell the reader about the bias against her when she started as an intern in her first "real life" newsroom. The news director thought she was a "dilettante ... 21 year old graduate from a fancy college - a RICH kid at that- coming in there thinking ` Ooooh fun! Can I play with the cameras too? Hey, I wanna go on the air!'" Maria showed him! "There was nothing I wouldn't do in that newsroom. I worked my *** off." (Wow! I didn't know the real Maria talked like that!) Now he's still in the small station newsroom and she's where she is. The book is composed, not of platitudes, but rather kernels of wisdom that need to be passed on through the generations - especially today where "common sense" and "common etiquette" are not common enough. I would give "10 Things" a 10 - but we are only allowed 5 stars.
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Summary: Excellent
Review: This practical, down to earth book is fantastic. Maria Shriver should get many kudos for writing this book and her number one spot on the bestseller list is a testimonial to how she struck a chord with people of all ages. Society dictates far too often how we should look, feel and act. What a facade that is. Shriver's book helps us all to realize - especially women - that we can have it all, though not in the way we always thought we would, that hard work and determination equals success but we will probably fail at one time or another, and that the 'fairy-tale' of juggling career/marriage/children that's all easy, all happy, all the time, is just that, a fairy tale.
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