A review by thelaurajay
Life Itself by Roger Ebert

4.0

After reading this book, I will admire fondly Ebert's critical reasoning, perseverance, and the fondness for other people. This is a poignant, well-written book filled with bewitchingly beautiful chapters that made me laugh and tear up, and other chapters that reminded me that this is a man from another time - - a man's man values on display. It's hard for me to be critical, however, because it's a book I believe my father would have loved and cherished. Though I don't know him, Ebert remains me of my father in his habits and the way he too was confined to his lonesome in some ways at the end of his life. Also, my father loved "At The Movies" and "Siskel and Ebert," so I did too. This book with clearly worth the read for me--to take a moment at dinner to have a conversation with Roger Ebert.