Gregory Peck: A Charmed Life
by Lynn Haney
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Author: Lynn HaneyEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-11-15
ISBN: 0786716568
Number of pages: 496
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Book Reviews of Gregory Peck: A Charmed Life
Book Review: Annoying and poorly researched.
Summary: 2 Stars
Gregory Peck is one of my favorites. I actually looked forward to reading this book. However, it is a frustraing mess of typos, errors of fact, bait and switch writing and I'm almost willing to bet, "parts" lifted from other sources, tweaked and used to fill space and take up pages.
The writing "style", what there is of it, changes depending on the subject matter. At different times, when allowing us to follow the story, the author uses "Greg did this", and "then Greg found himself...", which is fine. But on a couple of stories, "Greg" became "Peck found himself" and "Peck did this" and it was like a different writer had penned this sequence. Then, when the "story line" was concluded, it went back to "Greg."
But the most troubling are the simple typos-- ALAN LADD became ALLAN LADD and the movie SAHARA became SHAHARA and a dozen others. References to quotes of people who loved "Greg" in a movie that wouldn't be made for another six years, based on the time line of the "sequence" we were in, was also stumbling.
By the end, I found myself skipping whole pages of dreck just to get back to the "Greg" I wanted to read about. Disappointing and not recommended. But that's just me.
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