The Great Eight

2 stars out 5

Don't get me wrong: Scott Hamilton strikes me as a great guy. He has lived in an interesting life and he has some good things to say. But this book was not for me. The vocabulary was elementary, the analysis shallow. It's only 200 pages and the font size is large with lots of space. I just didn't feel like it was really worth my time to read the whole book. I wound up only getting about 1/3 of the way through before giving up.

The book felt like he was saying, here are eight reasons why I'm happy and I'll throw in some experiences from my life. For skating fans, I am sure this was fun. But I have very little interest in skating and so I didn't find the stories very interesting. I didn't find his analysis compelling. There are some quality self-help books out there. There are some quality biographies out there. But in my mind, this does not qualify as either.