A review by tierno158
Leonardo Da Vinci by Walter Isaacson

2.0

I’m just 100 pages in and already frustrated. Isaacson repeats himself more than my elderly uncle after his third gin and tonic. Did anyone edit this? I have no more of a feel for who Leonardo was than when I started. It seems that Isaacson just talked to a bunch of art critics who have studied Leonardo and cobbled together random quotes. I guess that’s “research” but it’s dry as dust and hasn’t injected any life into the book. I liked Isaacson’s Benjamin Franklin bio so I’m going to stick with it because many seem to love it but it might be 5 pages a day for the next century.