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emvater's review against another edition
challenging
funny
hopeful
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.75
neil_reimer's review against another edition
2.0
“three emotions have always been very real to me- fear, prejudice, and bitterness. It is the reactions to the emotions that make a man.”
As a basketball fan I was excited to read this book and learn about the legendary Bill Russell, the man who holds the most NBA championships as a player, 11 rings. I got through the first few chapters pretty quick but I soon realized that the book is all over the place and the timeline starts skipping ahead and then going back a few years and then skipping ahead again which made things hard to follow. While there were some behind the scenes stories there really wasn’t anything all that interesting or memorable, just your basic stories about meeting new teammates and playing card games on planes and stuff like that. This book was definitely more about social justice issues than basketball and it shares more about Bills thoughts regarding certain situations rather than him telling the story of his career and all the behind the scenes stories. Just because of how hard it was to follow and how repetitive it started to get I just had lots of trouble getting through the last half of the book.
As a basketball fan I was excited to read this book and learn about the legendary Bill Russell, the man who holds the most NBA championships as a player, 11 rings. I got through the first few chapters pretty quick but I soon realized that the book is all over the place and the timeline starts skipping ahead and then going back a few years and then skipping ahead again which made things hard to follow. While there were some behind the scenes stories there really wasn’t anything all that interesting or memorable, just your basic stories about meeting new teammates and playing card games on planes and stuff like that. This book was definitely more about social justice issues than basketball and it shares more about Bills thoughts regarding certain situations rather than him telling the story of his career and all the behind the scenes stories. Just because of how hard it was to follow and how repetitive it started to get I just had lots of trouble getting through the last half of the book.
sambo10's review against another edition
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4.0
Fantastic memoir, where Bill intertwines his journey in the NBA, with his experiences being an African American living in America, through the 50s and 60s.
RIP legend
RIP legend
myloveshine's review against another edition
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3.0
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Minor: Colonisation, Racism, Classism, and Racial slurs
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5.0
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