A review by nicollej
The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons from Extraordinary Lives by Katie Couric

3.0

I'm not sure that this is the best book to listen to on audio. I thought a lot more of the snippets of advice would be read by the authors of them but that would require recording 50+ leaders/celebrities/entrepreneurs/etc. Katie Couric does narrate her sections but this book is made up largely of anecdotes and advice from other famous members of society. I think that's where the audio falls short as it's sometimes difficult to remember whom wrote this snippet if you don't listen to the end of the "chapter". Some of the advice is extremely cliché or just ridiculous as in Tyra Banks "Smize with your Booty" section but then again, it is Tyra Banks. I ended up reading the last 30 pages of this book and wish I had read the whole thing instead of listening. It's a book to read slowly - maybe a couple sections a day but for reading/listening to it all in one sitting, I don't believe it gets the intended affect. Granted, there is some seriously inspiring sections of this book - specifically the last essay which I think makes the entire book worth it. Pick this up but read it and read it slowly.