Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I waited all day to be able to curl up in bed with this 'biography.' And then I went to bed utterly and completely disappointed. This is NOT a biography. This is, at best, cut-and-pasted field Notes from so much research that the writers must have finally given up on writing anything. It is source material for someone who wants to write a biography, but is is not a book for someone who wants to read a biography. It is, LITERALLY (in the old sense of the word, not the new one, which has no meaning) hundreds of pages of quotes, loosely organized around a general theme. There is no attempt at a through-line to paint a complete picture, no connecting the dots, no thought whatsoever. This book is not written. It's not even really edited. It could best be described as curated, but only barely. And honestly, if it is even just a transcript of the movie, I am no longer interested in seeing the movie...... Such a disappointment. Unless what you want is field notes, in which case, this is a gold mine. You just have to do all the digging.