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As Time Goes by: The Life of Ingrid Bergman

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In language and humour that belongs to an adolescent, the author has all but declared Ingrid Bergman a beautiful but manipulative whore,a consummate liar and psychologically unbalanced, while the heroes of the book are obviously Ingrid Bergman's loser-lovers who probably contributed to it.The author finds pleasure in culling out the "contradictions" in everyone's versions of facts in spite of never having interviewed Bergman himself.This is no book to be read by either fan or foe. It is the most undignified piece of writing I have ever read.

"As time goes by..." is an interesting and well-writen book about Ingrid Bergman'life. In fact, it brings the reader some corrections in Bergman's autobiography. My reservation is that the book doesn't go further Bergman's life and most of the information are well-known by some reader that knows at least something of her life.

This so-called book is not about Ingrid Bergman. It's about her first husband who must have paid a lot of money to the writer. While I was reading it I had the feeling that Leamer wanted to show how great a person lindstrom was by trying to make us believe that Miss Bergman was a selfish and cold person who didn't care about anything but her career. The 'book' is based mostly on lindstrom's perception of the truth and on the 'writer's' speculation about Miss Bergman's behaviour during her life. It is pathetic. There were parts where I couldn't help laughing out loud because it was sooooooo obvious that what was written was a delusion of the writer. Sometimes Leamer used experts from Miss Bergman's autobiography just to make us believe what he was writing was true.
It doesn't deserve any star and I'm really sorry for the trees that were chopped out because of printing this. Complete waste of money and time.