"A reviewer called Dubious wrote: I wanted so much to believe in this book, but as others have said, if the writer didn't tape record the conversations and only took notes (but then, so he says, lost the notebooks; ALL of them?) how much can this be trusted? After a while all the speakers start to sound alike. John Gielgud sounds a lot like Tennessee Williams here, etc. It may be that the author did indeed have these conversations and has pieced them together as best as he can from memory, but I wish he would just say so -- though if he were to do so, he probably wouldn't have gotten the thing published."
" I wrote everything down [in notebooks] long since deteriorated, their staples fallen away..."
So, what exactly did Grissom say about all this? Did he say he "lost" the notebooks, or just that they had "deteriorated?" Of course it's possible for a book to physically deteriorate in terms of its staples or binding falling away, yet the writing may well remain legible.
Whatever, after reading the Amazon reviews you have kindly provided, it all sounds extremely fishy to me. |
