A review by andipants
The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers by Maxwell King

Did not finish book. Stopped at 28%.

Mr. Rogers is easily among my top five favorite humans (excluding relatives), so it pains me to do this, but I can't finish this book. I made it to page 90, but it's just tedious. The text is disorganized and repetitive, tossing in unrelated details at random points, bringing up events without explaining why they matter, and listing facts but failing to capture any kind of nuanced narrative. It reads more like an eighth grader's history report in some places than a professionally edited piece of writing. The author clearly did his research, but somebody needed to get a better editor on the job. I loved the documentary about Mr. Rogers that came out a few years ago, and was looking forward to a book that could really do him justice, but this ain't it.