My Life

Book: My Life
By: Bill Clinton
Number of pages: 957
Time took to read: From 5-22 to 6-16

I both liked and disliked this book. It was the story from his birth, until he walked out of the Oval Office and met George W. to take over the Presidency.

A lot of the stories he told were very interesting. His father died before he was born, his grandfather was one of the few white men in Arkansas to sell groceries to black people in the 50's, he was a Rhodes Scholar and studied at Oxford and traveled the world. During his Presidency he played golf with Tiger Woods, etc., etc., etc., But, what I didn't like about it was how political heavy the story was. I was super confused through most of his political tenure in Arkansas. I didn't know any of the politicians names that he was referring to. I started looking up some, then I just gave up. And, even during his Presidency I was too young to remeber the Watergate case against him, so I had to Google that to understand what was going on. Near the end of the book, he spent so much time discussing peace treaties between Israel and Palestine, and though I have heard of Yassir Arafat, I didn't completly get what was going on, so I just skimmed those parts. But, it is a farily interesting book about a very interesting man. Don't expect too much about Monica Lewinsky...it's covered in about 15 pages or so.

Ranking: 2 stars out of 4.