My Remarkable Journey

My Remarkable Journey
by Larry King

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Author: Larry King
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-05-19
ISBN: 1602860866
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: Weinstein Books

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Book Review: King's Stories Come One After the Other, Each Funnier or More Interesting Than the Last
Summary: 5 Stars

Larry King is unlike any other journalist in history. He is also unlike any other autobiographer. His stories come one after the other, each funnier or more interesting than the last. I didn't know he was such a comedian. He saw opportunity around every corner and grabbed the brass ring. He would be the first to admit that he never let go.

King opens his memoir with a hysterical tale about conducting an interview with Osama bin Laden. Imagine! His dream interview would be a scenario where he doesn't know who he is talking to until the show starts and the mystery guest comes through the door.

In his life thus far, King has sat down with countless celebrities, one of the most memorable being Frank Sinatra, who was famous for not doing interviews. How did this come about? When Jackie Gleason found out that King would just about walk through fire to do an interview with the reclusive Sinatra, Gleason set it up by calling in a favor. King was working for a small AM radio station in Miami that had spent a huge amount of its advertising budget on the hopes that Sinatra would show. Ol' Blue Eyes arrived at the studio at the last minute, with King on tenterhooks. Not only did he honor his word to Gleason, but he willfully told the story about his son's abduction, a topic that King was forbidden to bring up.

King's interview style is so simple that it is sometimes seen as simplistic. Actually, it is totally focused on the guest: "I never learned anything listening to myself talk." He doesn't script his interviews or give long lead-ins, and you will never hear him offer his own viewpoints. Rather, he is interested in the opinions and thoughts of his guests, and things he doesn't know yet.

I can recall vividly seeing O.J. Simpson fleeing Los Angeles in the white Ford Bronco. At the time I was watching "Larry King Live." King, who stayed on the air for three hours, felt a little unprepared, as this feed was live from LA and he was not. The world watched as the drama unfolded.

Always wanting to be an announcer from his earliest recollections --- having announced a sporting event through a rolled-up program --- King was the color commentator for the Miami Dolphins broadcasts during the early part of their perfect 1971-72 season. He has also met and interviewed many of his heroes, including Leo Durocher, as a young AM radio personality.

Significant to every aspect of King's life is the death of his father, and the great and consequential loss he felt and the abandonment he lived through. He ascribes many turns in his life as having come from his sense that his father left him when he was a very young boy. We enter his world, career, marriages, family, and finally get some of his closely held opinions.

Through the years, King has interviewed a variety of guests from all walks of life, religious and political viewpoints. His style of questioning has never really changed. Using short, direct questions, he extracts the answers America awaits. It truly has been a remarkable journey.

--- Reviewed by Marge Fletcher

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Summary of My Remarkable Journey

The definitive autobiography of one of the most famous personalities in television history-an intimate, revealing, and riveting memoir that will show a Larry King the world has never known, up close and personal.

Celebrated as "the most remarkable talk-show host on TV ever" by TV Guide and "master of the mike" by Time magazine, for a half-century the world's most influential figures have been telling their story to Larry King. Now the man in suspenders shares his riveting and inspiring story, from his humble roots in Depression-era Brooklyn to the heights of celebrity as host of CNN's Larry King Live.

Before he befriended presidents and iconic entertainers, Larry grew up on the streets of Brooklyn, where he was known to friends as "Zeke the Greek the Mouthpiece" because he never stopped talking. Larry delves deeply into his extraordinary personal odyssey, beginning with the loss of his father at age nine. He has lost jobs, had a three-pack-a-day smoking habit, been down to his last $2 when he won an $8,000 trifecta at the racetrack, had a heart attack and quintuple bypass surgery, quit smoking, founded a heart foundation that has raised millions and assisted thousands, and now, at the age of seventy-five, has recently gotten thrown out of a Little League game for arguing a call in defense of his nine-year-old son.

Filled with delightfully evocative personal anecdotes and behind-the-scenes observations on some of our most important world figures, What Am I Doing Here? will be devoured by Larry King's millions of fans worldwide.

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