lucialarsen 's review for:

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

2.0

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This rating is not a review of Fred Rogers, but the book, which when the music played to indicate the audiobook was over, I sighed with relief and thought “Thank God.” Fred Rogers the person gets five stars. The Good Neighbor the book gets one star. I compromised with two. If you like Fred Rogers, please watch the movie with Tom Hanks, or read one of the short books Fred Rogers wrote, or re-watch his show for nostalgia. Please don’t read this. To reiterate what a lot of the negative reviews have said, it is extremely boring, long, and repetitive. I swear whole paragraphs were copied and pasted throughout the book randomly. We got to hear the same song lyrics transcripted again and again. We were given lengthy quotes by numerous people saying the exact same thing in the exact same way. Every person Fred interacted with at some point in his life, we got the pleasure of knowing where that person grew up and the occupations of their parents and everything they ever said that was mildly related to Fred Rogers. Not much will bore me on my commute, but I would have rather sat in silence.