Love Life - Rob Lowe

Like his earlier memoir, this one surprised me again where I didn't expect to be impressed.  I knew Rob Lowe was a good writer, and his ability to bring you along on his stories makes me think that he is unfairly lucky in been blessed with talent, looks, intelligent and now another career as a successful author.  Once again it is not the sections about his life in the celebrity driven acting world or his famous friends that floors you - it the the paragraphs about his wife who helped him grow up or the story of taking his eldest son to college that allow you to see the man.

4/5

Stories I Only Tell My Friends - Rob Lowe

Stories I Only Tell My Friends - Rob Lowe (2011)

I see that Rob Lowe has been dragged out onto every US talk show to promote his new biography.  Us ladies of a certain age need no introduction, as he was in so many movies and mags in the 80s with his dream boy looks. 

I wasn't expecting much of this book, but was pleasantly surprised.  He had a modern childhood with a depressed mother, and a couple of stepdads, moving houses and running around the neighbourhood with other tv/movie celebs.  He tells us about a lot of girls without it being too sleazy, and that is balanced out with the long marriage with his wife and two young boys.  The insights into the West Wing were interesting, and it didn't seem the same after he left.

So it was a quick read, but I did enjoy it more than I expected - 4/5.