Musings on Spiritual Matters

I typically like autobiographies of famous business people.  Ted Turner has been a larger than life character for numerous years.  The book was fascinating because of the different experiences that Ted went through in his childhood and in his adult years.  It is amazing that most of the affluent men could have lost everything if one turn in the company did not work out.  Ted is someone who had been against Christianity, but in his book it seems that he takes back some of his comments.  The CNN story was amazing and his desire to buy huge ranchers against America was interesting as well.  He loves fly fishing which also seems appealing to me.  Throughout the book, he is a energetic man who never stops and is always going.  He was a workaholic through his early days which causes him to miss most of his kids early years.  In his later years, it seems that he has a good relationship with his kids.  By the end of the book, you kind of felt bad for him losing the majority of his money in the AOL-Time Warner merger and felt bad about him being kicked out of the company.  Whatever you feel about him, when you put your whole life into something, it is sad to have no part in it any longer.  It was truly a interesting and enjoyable read.

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4. Review of “Beyond the Mountain”
5. Review of “Lone Survivor”

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