Title: Good try but reads too pretentiously
Product review: I was quite excited to buy and read this book; I think Andy Kaufman is one of the comic geniuses of our time and there has always been so much unexplained about him. The author obviously shares that affection, and not just because he spent 6 years on the book. But the first half is really boring and is filled with unverifiable "facts," and by the end I felt like I knew 10 times more about Bill Zehme than Andy Kaufman. It felt like he'd put Andy on a slide under a microscope, and when what he saw was still fuzzy, decided to fill up his book with a novel about him and Andy Kaufman. Though I'm sure he didn't mean to, the effect rang really pretentious, like he was either trying to pull a fast on the reader because he didn't have enough material, or that he thought he was Norman Mailer. I wish he was too--or at least a reporter who would say like on "Dragnet," "just the facts,ma'am."
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