Avid Reader : A Life (Hardcover)

from Doondeck

Inside baseball. Too much of it. Names of his friends/associates keep coming like a gatling gun. How could he be so intimate with so many friends and give short shrift to his son? Didn't learn much about the process of book editing. No mention of audio books or e-books. Shoddy work.

from bobbieharv

I was vastly disappointed long slog of a book. Writers are incapable of editing their own books, Gottlieb tells us at one point. I wish he had listened to himself. He probably edited or was responsible for most of the books I have read in my life. He clearly knows what makes for good writing, voi...

from Laura400

This book is both interesting and frustrating. I didn't learn much about editing, nor about the many remarkable writers whom Gottlieb edited, not even about Gottlieb himself. The book is in fact remarkably unrevelatory and impersonal. But it's worthwhile as a chronicle of a slice of publishing hi...

from lisapeet

If I had to give this one word it would be breezy: great literary and dance world gossip, not particularly introspective even when the author tries for it, almost no friction anywhere in what was clearly a pretty charmed existence (with one divorce and one special needs child I know it wasn't all...

from SigmundFraud

I have a passion for books as does Robert Gottlieb. Avid Reader is a fantastic read. Gottlieb was at Knopf and The New Yorker and he shares his experiences which usually involved books. He was an obsessive and compulsive reader since childhood and shares those wonderful experience. Do not pass go...