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A review by donaldcapone
From Under the Truck: A Memoir by Josh Brolin
4.0
3.5 stars (rounded up to 4. Will Goodreads ever give us 1/2 stars or move to a 1-10 scale?).
Josh Brolin has lived an interesting life. I’ve heard him on podcasts and he is smart and funny and honest. This comes across in his memoir, too, though the book is a little more scattershot. It is not told in a chronological order; the book consists of essays, poems, letters, and short stories/vignettes. It was frustrating at times, being thrown right into a story without much context. He’s going for a style here, and sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t.
Overall, though, this is about his mother Jane, who raised him in an unconventional manner, without much help from his father James.
Josh Brolin has lived an interesting life. I’ve heard him on podcasts and he is smart and funny and honest. This comes across in his memoir, too, though the book is a little more scattershot. It is not told in a chronological order; the book consists of essays, poems, letters, and short stories/vignettes. It was frustrating at times, being thrown right into a story without much context. He’s going for a style here, and sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t.
Overall, though, this is about his mother Jane, who raised him in an unconventional manner, without much help from his father James.