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Schulz and Peanuts CD

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This book is remarkably personal, deeply personal. There are heavy insights here (whether accurate or not) into Mr. Shultz's psyche which I have to think he would be very uncomfortable with had they been published while he were living. It delves into his motivations and relations with friends, lovers, enemies, etc. in exhaustive detail. And the audio version I heard was abridged! In other words, the book is laying out the attributes of a man's soul which would indeed make him feel uncomfortable if published! (My opinion anyway.) I am a little skeptical because it is almost impossible to figure my own psyche out, let alone a man who has left earth's scene! And to this level of detail? If enjoy deep psycho-social-analysis (perhaps as Lucy "the doctor is in" might...) this book is for you.

The book is mostly supportive of Mr. Shultz without being overly adoring or spiteful. It tells the story of a flawed but beloved man and a groundbreaking comic strip. (The book is perhaps more supportive of the strip itself. This is, after all, a biography of the Peanuts strip as well.)

The story of his death and the closing of the Peanuts strip (which occurred actually on the same DAY) is still fresh in my mind; as usual... quite sad.

I do not know who picked Holter Graham to read this bookm but they should be fired. No feeling is reflected in this reading. I read the book a few years ago and decided to get the audio book to hear it again. BIG MISTAKE!
Mr. Graham's reading drags and quite frankly I was board with this CD before I could get to the creation of the comic strip in the book! David Michaeli's book was a lot better than this audio Cd. I heard more lively readings in a middle school class room! SOrry HarperCollins,a better voice artist or another one would have been loads better! Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography

This was a very interesting, thorough biography of a beloved but not well understood figure in American pop culture. If anything, my interest in and respect for both Schulz and Peanuts went way up after listening to this. It's always nice to know that your heros are human too, and still managed to do what they did.

The reading is fantastic too.

I thought that it was kind of interesting, but way too long and detailed. I played it in the car on a trip from Washington to Michigan. It took nearly the whole way to get to the end. Also, I expected that there would be some Peanuts characters speaking their parts, but there were none.