Failing Up

3.5 stars. Through out this book I just kept saying to myself “I wish there was more.” Leslie always keeps that audience arms length away. The stories that he tells leave out details. One example, more than halfway through is when he first mentions that there had been some difficulties with his father. Or how as a kid he said that he had trouble is school, but that only reason he gives is that he was just rowdy as a kid. As a result it just don't feel a connection. It feels like I'm reading “This happen and then this happened and here is the lesson.”There are moments when he does get a more personal and those are the best parts. Like when he talks about being typed casted in Hollywood as the ‘token black character' and how he chose to no longer take those parts. Overall it does has some good lessons and advice. For someone who just graduated high school and/or is about to start college this would be probably get more out of this book.