Negative Positive
Title: starts with a bang and then runs out of steam
Review: Alda's early life is a real page turner.You really start rooting for him to make it big after having a hard early life as an actor. Then he quickly gets married and has a kid. I guess he wants to give his family privacy but you learn little about these years after marriage.Then the book slowly loses momentum and meanders with random scenes. Famous kisses? with little mention of his other interactions with anyone. Very little material on MASH. I guess he didn't want to offend anyone alive but it does not inform either.It finishes with the final bang of his days in the hospital.I get the feeling he spent a lot of time writing on his early life and then rushed the ending after his near death experience.
Is the review positive or negative? 