Reviews

Monty Python Autobiografia Pelos Monty Python by Eric Idle, Jonh Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, Bob McCabe, Michael Python, Graham Chapman

ansl's review against another edition

4.0

Tof voor de fan, met leuke weetjes.
Voordat ik dit boek las, dacht ik dat ze allemaal super goede vrienden van elkaar waren, maar dat is precies niet :p. Vooral John Cleese lijkt nogal als een moeilijk persoon over te komen.
Het stuk over de universiteit en de afzonderlijke tv-programma's die ze hebben gemaakt vond ik zelf minder interessant. Dat kwam voor een deel omdat daar zoveel namen in voorkwamen van (waarschijnlijk bekende) Britten, maar aangezien ik niet in dat land ben opgegroeid, heb ik geen idee wie het is. Dat het een hele hoop nieuwe namen waren, maakte het dan ook niet erg makkelijk.
Plus: wie heeft het nu verzonnen om zwarte tekst op een korrelige foto-achtergrond te zetten? Totaal onleesbaar!

lyndsiamanda's review against another edition

5.0

I listen to this at least once a year and it never seizes to amaze me as to how in depth these six people are! It's absolutely wonderful to say the least, going behind the scenes of everything. It's just pure win.

lanceschaubert's review against another edition

5.0

hilarious. fresh. innovative as always.

grahamlibrarian's review against another edition

3.0

I'm rating the audiobook so the 3 stars has mainly to do with the quality of the audio interviews. I liked learning the history of the Pythons and there were some humorous stories told but it was really hard to understand a lot of what they were saying because of the quality of the audio used.

siria's review against another edition

4.0

A weighty and impressive-looking coffee-table book, The Pythons makes excellent reading for devoted fans, though it's probably too in-depth for those who aren't interested in the nuts and bolts of how the series were produced. Although they don't deal with everything—understandably, after four decades I'm sure there are some things that can't be recalled, and everyone needs some measure of privacy for themselves—what is discussed is frank and honest, even if that honesty seems to have led to some tension and contradiction.

lahberry1225's review against another edition

3.0

I was expecting silliness, sarcasm, and absurdity; in short, I was expecting the Pythons' life stories to be just like the skits on the show. Instead, this book was nostalgic and reflective, with the Pythons waxing wistful about what brought them together (and what kept them friends). In short, it was five lovably crusty old weirdos reminiscing, and being proud of what they had accomplished together.

roof77's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny inspiring lighthearted relaxing sad fast-paced

5.0

royalmilktea's review against another edition

funny slow-paced

1.5

crowyhead's review against another edition

4.0

This is sort of like "The Python Anthology." The remaining members of Monty Python, as well as Graham Chapman's brother, sister-in-law, and longtime partner David Sherlock, tell the history of Monty Python in their own words. There are a lot of contradictions; no one can seem to remember who actually picked "The Liberty Bell March" as the theme, for example, and some things have become so legendary that one gets the feeling that everyone is telling the version that makes the best story (case in point: everyone loves to tell the story that Graham Chapman invited his fiancee to the party where he announced he was gay, but according to David Sherlock, she wasn't actually his fiancee anymore at that point. What's true? Who knows.) You get to learn a lot about their personalities and their working relationships, which is always interesting, even if it means finding out that John Cleese is kind of a git. Good stuff for fans of Monty Python, probably utterly boring for anyone else (although there's lots of great pictures of Terry Gilliam's cartoon work).

aliensupersoldier's review against another edition

5.0

Why can't this book go on forever?