Paul Newman

Most of my stars are for Paul Newman himself, he was an interesting man who led a life worth telling the story of, which made for a decent book (I listened to this as an audiobook). The author did a good job covering the bases and leading the path through that life, but I found the writing style a bit smarmy from time to time. It had that feel of someone trying to shoehorn extra large words into their writing in order to appear more intelligent. This did not help the audiobook reader any, as he mispronounced many of the smarmy words. My favorite was when he did the standard English speaker thing of saying the title of the film Das Boot as one would say ‘boot' in English - always good for a chuckle from a German speaker.