A review by toniclark
Avid Reader: A Life by Robert Gottlieb

3.0

Too much, too much! Too much of everything in this book. After hearing it praised on a recent podcast, I was so eager to read it that I decided to buy it instead of waiting for a library copy. Here is Gottlieb’s life related mainly through the jobs he’s held and the seemingly interminable litany of all the famous people he’s known — about 90% of whom, or so it seems, have become close personal friends, part of the family. They eat together, shop together, share holidays and family events. How can one person have so many super-close friends? The book has some interesting snippets, but in the main, it just gets quickly boring.