I just found that reading this book felt like reading a sports or political memoir, with lots of changes of scenes and characters but little of the spark of the real person, that the written descriptions of them is unable to capture their charisma, to show us how they moved in the world and interact with others. Maybe it was a little bit because I knew that this particular story was going to end in tragedy, that we were all touched by Robin Williams and the laughter he had given us over the years, that we all felt sad that he struggled to find his own peace. 2/5
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Sometimes biographies don't do the subject justice; not every writer is good at it. I have found that it is periodically the fault of the subject: this is often the case with someone who is involved in interesting events, but is not interesting in themselves. But Williams seemed to have been the sort to make a biography easy.
Just loved anything Robin Williams was in so that sounds very disappointing and to the point of boring. I am still working myway through Downton. I had only watched it once on my disks some years ago and am really enjoying it 2nd time around
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