A review by when_jess_reads
Room to Dream by David Lynch

4.0

I really enjoyed it. There was some parts that I felt were really dry when they were explaining films and it just felt like we were just explaining like film after film or, like, project after project and there were lots of new characters with new names and I couldn't really follow by putting a visual in my head about what they looked like so I kind of like zoned out and was thinking ‘let’s just power through this part and get to some more interesting aspects’, but as a person I mean he's a pretty incredible human. It seems like he never really had a fear of presenting or sharing his creations and his creative mind and in the book they really attribute that to having such a stable upbringing and really feeling nurtured for his creativity, but something that he has really opened my eyes about is the sense that you don't need to have lots of money to be successful in what you do and how the real achievement comes from just being able to create what you want to create and I really believe that for myself and it's kind of been like, that's always gonna be there that's always available to anyone and so if you live a life where you can just continue to create the ideas as they come into your head and kind of allow that flow to happen quite a beautiful life, you know, that aspect of it is but they do sort of say you know the consequences of being in such a world and giving so much of yourself to art is this, you know, sort of inability in a way to create long lasting intimate relationships and how he sort of says about the neglect of his children or his children mainly. They wrote a lot about how he kind of attracts people, and attracts women, and he is such a kind hearted person with who's really charismatic, and he doesn't really struggle with connecting with people. So, I think it was a really enlightening book, but it's huge. I mean it's like 500 pages. But there's really beautiful photos all through it, black and white of him on set or him as a child. And the way that they also just weaved spirituality in there that was a really big theme of the book and how much meditation and Maharshi had an effect on David and yeah I just think it's a really brilliant biography and style was so interesting I've never read a book before where they've written half of it from like interviews with all of these people who were part of his life as one aspect and then he would read essentially that part and then write his own section reflecting on what he remembered of those situations or people or what other people might have, you know, been describing about him that then he could, sort of defend himself for lack of a better word -that style was super interesting. I really liked it.