A review by electraheart
Frank: The True Story that Inspired the Movie by Jon Ronson

3.0

This book is only 70-something pages, and I was expecting it to be jam packed with super cool stories about Frank/Chris. Instead, there was hardly any genuine interaction between Frank and Jon. It was more a brief summary of Jon's life with Frank as a passing acquaintance than anything else - you get stories about friends of Frank, other musicians who rose to fame, what city Jon was living in during a certain year - and the whole time, Frank is almost never present. You briefly learn he has a wife and two kids, but you never witness any interactions with them. You learn how Jon and Frank meet, and there's a subtle talk about why Frank disappeared for a while, but that's it. Maybe the problem is that this book is too short. I know it was written as an article first, and I know the movie is mostly fictional, but there was so much potential substance missing.