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  • Robin

  • Auteur(s): Dave Itzkoff
  • Narrateur(s): Fred Berman
  • Durée: 16 h et 15 min
  • 4,6 out of 5 stars (155 évaluations)

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Robin

Auteur(s): Dave Itzkoff
Narrateur(s): Fred Berman
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This program includes a prologue and epilogue read by the author.

From New York Times culture reporter Dave Itzkoff comes the definitive audiobook biography of Robin Williams - a compelling portrait of one of America’s most beloved and misunderstood entertainers.

From his rapid-fire stand-up comedy riffs to his breakout role in Mork & Mindy and his Academy Award-winning performance in Good Will Hunting, Robin Williams was a singularly innovative and beloved entertainer. He often came across as a man possessed, holding forth on culture and politics while mixing in personal revelations - all with mercurial, tongue-twisting intensity as he inhabited and shed one character after another with lightning speed. 

But as Dave Itzkoff shows in this revelatory biography, Williams’ comic brilliance masked a deep well of conflicting emotions and self-doubt, which he drew upon in his comedy and in celebrated films like Dead Poets Society; Good Morning, Vietnam; The Fisher King; Aladdin; and Mrs. Doubtfire, where he showcased his limitless gift for improvisation to bring to life a wide range of characters. And in Good Will Hunting he gave an intense and controlled performance that revealed the true range of his talent. 

Itzkoff also shows how Williams struggled mightily with addiction and depression - topics he discussed openly while performing and during interviews - and with a debilitating condition at the end of his life that affected him in ways his fans never knew. Drawing on more than a hundred original interviews with family, friends, and colleagues as well as extensive archival research, Robin is a fresh and original look at a man whose work touched so many lives.

©2018 Dave Itzkoff (P)2018 Macmillan Audio

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Not quite what I expected

I purchased this audio book since I am very fascinated by Robin's character and I wanted to know more about his life and how he got where he got. This book is good if you just want to know a sequence of his life events, marriages, kids, divorces, moves, etc. However, it moves on the surface and does not go into much depth. It was almost as if the writer only pasted together what was published in papers and magazines on Robin, with a lot of quotes from Robin's interviews here and there. Some details presented were unnecessary. For instance two chapters at the end of the book were about legal fights of the family on his assets after his death which had nothing to do with Robin and was somehow demeaning for such a cherished character! It's really sad that we can't yet really know deeper than this book about Robin. He deserves to be known better! #Audible1

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a wonderful book

if you've enjoyed Robin Williams. Then you need to have this insight. The author has done a great job at portraying this gift who is called Robin Williams

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Left me feeling like I knew him personally

Dave Itzkoff provides just the right amount of detail and balance in this biography of a modest, loving, generous genius. Robin had time for every fan and treated everyone with kindness and respect. Of dozens of biographies I have read, this is the only one that left me cheering at the subject's successes and wincing at his failures. Itzkoff's sensitive description of Robin's final decline and death made me feel like I had lost a friend -- a level of intimacy that reflects a truly great biography.

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Sensitive and Respectful

I never know before I read a celeb bio if it's going to be like an Entertainment Tonight expose with unreliable sources for interviews and quotes etc...
it is kind of a crap shoot.
This sensitive and lovely biography gave me new hope and an appreciation for David Itzkoff. It is as if written by a close friend...very respectful and sensitive but informative.

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Everything you ever wanted to know about Robin

A well written and seemingly full account of Robin Williams' life, which was well performed. Great listen for a comedy fan. #Audible1

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So simple yet so complex

Very well written! A story about a loved comedian who was a very complex person and yet so real and open! Robin seemed to be a very giving person and really wanted something back, but simply could not feel comfortable taking something back.
I really loved his story! Thank you!

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Robin Williams

Such a great success story and insight into the type of person Robin was.
He was an intellect that was on another level than most. Highly recommended.

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A great story about a beloved, yet troubled icon

Great stories from some of Robin’s closest friends and family paint a picture of a brilliant man who struggled greatly. It is a reminder that outside appearances are not always indicative of someone’s innermost thoughts and feelings

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An Extended Wikipedia Entry

This story reads like an extended Wikipedia entry going over the various projects Robin was involved in. it was interesting but longer than it needed to be.

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Fabulous &Tragic

Fabulous listen. So much fun to listen to.. I will give as a gift to other audible listeners.
Tragic how his condition left so much speculation. Now we understsnd

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