A review by sirlancereads
Van Gogh: The Life by Steven Naifeh, Gregory White Smith

challenging emotional informative sad slow-paced

3.75

This was good. But it was long and dense. It was detailed and some might say a little too detailed. But I think it did a very good job of painting the sad and tragic life of VIncent Van Gogh without attempting to soften the very prickly edges of his life.

About the only real gripe I have with the book is the fact that the appendix goes into a little bit of conspiracy theory territory as it attempts to ignore the very real probability that Van Gogh killed himself and tries to make it seem like there was some sort of foul play involved when there is no real evidence that there was and their theory is based in speculation.