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Summary: Carroll O'Connor's Memoir of All My Families
Review: As a very big "All in the Family" fan, I was looking very forward to reading this book. It is really good because it goes deep into Carroll and you find out who he is and what is about. As previous readers have stated the book can be slow and rambling, but you have to be prepared for things like that in memoirs. Overall, I thought it was a very good book that should be read by Carroll O'Connor and All in the Family fans.
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Summary: Interesting, but not about All in the Family
Review: I'm a huge fan of that show, and believe O'Connor's long portrayal of Archie is the greatest and most groundbreaking acting performance in television history. So the fact that he offers almost no insight into that work in this memoir is a major letdown.
Still, he had a fascinating life and this is a very good read, even though he certainly doesn't always come off as a likeable or tolerant fellow. He has deep, strident beliefs, little affection for those who differ, and he bluntly tells us so. The final chapter about his beloved son's descent into addiction, madness, and suicide, and a father's inability to stop it, is truly wrenching. That could have been a book by itself.
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Summary: All In The Mind
Review: I'm not going to say much here; Only that this book may be the least interesting autobiography I have ever read. You know Carrol from "All In The Family" moreso than any other role he has portayed, yet he avoids discussing his tenure on that ground-breaking show from the 70's, instead telling us many things about his early history.
It appears he may feel the show overshadowed everything else he did, so to answer that, left it out of his book.
I was disappointed reading it and would not recommend the book to anyone.
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