A review by juvation
Gilliamesque: A Pre-posthumous Memoir by Terry Gilliam

4.0

Another Python memoir! How many can there be...? Oh and along comes (the increasingly accurately named, as Mr Gilliam puts it) Eric Idle's one too! Festooned in Python autobiogs! Fortunately so far they are high quality, with Mr Cleese's still taking the top spot, of which more later. Mr Gilliam's is a lavishly produced big format graphical affair as one might expect, with lots of old pictures, cheeky cartoons, and big fonts throughout. It is a good fun read, but any detail has been sacrificed at the altar of big pretty layout, and for that I dock a point, sir! No other Python need to go as far as the vast empires of paper that are Mr Palin's diaries (which are wonderful nevertheless) but we want a good back story to things and lots of gossip. Mr Cleese's detail level was perfect.