Still, the book reads like a lecture, and a bad one at that. I know I can't hold Paris too responsible for the book being so dry (thus, the three out of two) he is, after all, a biographer and not a novelist. I will say this: I found myself incapable of reading a lot before I had to close the book and gaze romantically at the cover, wondering how strange people would think me to be if I up and kissed it. I love that when she was asked for one word to describe her, she said "lucky." That being said, there is nothing unpleasant whatsoever about the subject being profiled. If you are looking for the definitive on this actress, I would suggest looking elsewhere. These characteristics do not ruin the book, but for me, it's not a stellar example of a great biography about Hepburn. I would have preferred to eliminate a few of those anecdotes.
Instead, it made the agenda of the author seem a bit sensationalistic. I also questioned the meticulousness with which the author tried to find examples of her being "mean." I suppose that this was under the euphemism of journalistic integrity, but at the same time, the examples that he did come up with were so petty that I questioned whether or not they were necessary for this book to be balanced.
The author uses very little first source material in this book and you really feel that distance. For one, I thought that the information was presented in a dry way, and is mostly composed of excerpts from previous interviews with her.
First, a disclaimer: I read a stack of biographies of Audrey Hepburn in college because I wrote a gigantic paper (more of a thesis really) about her, and I feel that I'm able to rate this biography against other biographies.Īt any rate, I would say that this bio, the first I've read in many years, is so-so in comparison to the others.
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