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My Side: The Autobiography of Ruth Gordon
by Ruth Gordon
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Harper & Row (1976)
ISBN: 0060116188
EAN: 9780060116187
Hardcover: 502 pages
Edition: 1st
SKU: POZ125757
Condition: Good
Comments: 0060116188 Book free of markings. No jacket, cover shows light wear. Interior & spine evidence only gentle use; overall, a very serviceable copy. Your book will be carefully protected for transit in sturdy, weather-resistant packaging. We are prompt, efficient, communicative.
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Customer Reviews
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Great Actress but boring book! Skip it!
Rating  (1)
Date: 2005-06-02
6 out of 9 customers found this reveiw helpful
Ruth Gordon was a great actress and one of the best "characters" ever to grace the silver screen. You would assume an autobiography would be filled with funny stories from her life but this book is nothing like that. This HUGE uninteresting book is filled with names, names, names and more names of people you have never heard of. No explanation about who they are or distiguishing features about them. It would only be of interest to people who actually know these people.
I'm pretty well versed in Broadway and Hollywood history and even I didn't know who or what she was talking about most of the time.
This was an autobiography her friends might enjoy reading (cause they know the people) but for everyone else this is just a long drawn our series of names and uninteresting stories.
I forced myself to keep reading this until I got to the Hollywood section and even then when I knew the names the storytelling was just as bad.
Skip this book!
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Amusing tale of a girl who dreamed of being an actress
Rating  (3)
Date: 2001-05-15
10 out of 11 customers found this reveiw helpful
I found this book both interesting an surprising. Ms.Gordon lived a life filled with famous actors, globe-trotting and a true love of the theater. Although I don't agree with all of her life choices, her book is a peek at a life lived by few. Unapologetic and footed in reality, the book covers her life from young child until shortly before her death. I imagine it would be a great read for anyone who is especially interested in the theater from the first part of the 20th century. Ms. Gordon rattles off the names of many plays, actors, writers and directors, most of which I didn't know. She doesn't explain much to put them in context, so I think someone who is more familliar with that era would get a greater kick out of it. If youonly know her from "Harold & Maude" or "Where's Pappa?" check out the long history of this lady of the stage.
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