Title: Reading Ugly
Review: This is a self-indulgent ego trip for Brad Gilbert. It has a few interesting points, but in general it's simply Gilbert talking up his own experiences and telling us what a wonderful player he was. Despite 40 years of professional tennis, Gilbert uses only his own games as examples. I saw him play many times; he was not exemplary enough to justify the bombastic arrogance he shoves in the reader's face page after page.There's little new here that has not already been written about in many other, there are better sport psychology books or autobiographies of great competitors. Gilbert only describes situations, he does not set out techniques of how to compete under pressure, focus, counter negative tactics, etc.The writing style is unsophisticated and puerile, more suitable to a teenager's frivolous blog than a book.One positive: his chapter on game preparation is worth reading.
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