The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers

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978-1-4197-2772-6
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Review of 'The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers' on 'Goodreads'

I love Mr. Rogers but this book bored me to tears. I wanted to love it but the repetitive, jumping-around approach wasn't for me.

Review of 'The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers' on 'Goodreads'

Listened to the audiobook narrated by the wonderful LeVar Burton. Maxwell King’s writing is repetitive, uncritical, and hyperbolic bordering on hero worship. I’ll watch the well-reviewed documentary by Morgan Neville to regain my appreciation for Mr. Rogers.

Review of 'The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers' on 'Storygraph'

Surprisingly disappointed by this. Loved that LaVar Burton read it, and learning about Mr. Rogers' (I cannot call him Fred, I just can't!) history was fascinating, but I really don't think this was written particularly well.

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This is the most perfect combination of narrator and subject. What could possibly be more soothing than listening to LeVar Burton reading about Fred Rogers? It was so perfect that I listened to this at 1x speed and did not speed it up even at points when the story started to drag. This is a very in depth look at the life of Fred Rogers. I was fascinated by stories from his childhood. I didn't know that he was born into a very wealthy family. He became a very accomplished pianist and composer before finding out about this new fangled thing called television and deciding almost on a whim to try it out. (It didn't hurt that he was the son of some of the major stockholders of RCA which owned NBC at the time.) Later he split his time between working at a TV station and going to seminary …

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