therightprofile's review against another edition
3.0
Ultimately I wished the book had been thicker. Only a couple pages at a time were devoted to Gilliam's filmmaking efforts. And yet there's a lot of insight into a fascinating life and the drawings and illustrations abounded on pretty much every page.
kfrench1008's review against another edition
3.0
A very good looking book, packed with photos and Gilliam's trademark cartoons. However, I found the content skewed more to his lesser-known work. He spends more time on Baron Munchausen than he does on Brazil, for example. And not nearly enough time on Python, which is what brought him to where he is today. Some nice personal touches, though, and a lot of self-deprecating humor.
juvation's review
4.0
Another Python memoir! How many can there be...? Oh and along comes (the increasingly accurately named, as Mr Gilliam puts it) Eric Idle's one too! Festooned in Python autobiogs! Fortunately so far they are high quality, with Mr Cleese's still taking the top spot, of which more later. Mr Gilliam's is a lavishly produced big format graphical affair as one might expect, with lots of old pictures, cheeky cartoons, and big fonts throughout. It is a good fun read, but any detail has been sacrificed at the altar of big pretty layout, and for that I dock a point, sir! No other Python need to go as far as the vast empires of paper that are Mr Palin's diaries (which are wonderful nevertheless) but we want a good back story to things and lots of gossip. Mr Cleese's detail level was perfect.
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