Dear Me

Sir Peter Ustinov's autobiography goes from his birth in April 1921, and spans his extraordinary career as actor, playwright, film star and director to the mid to late 1970's. Narrated by the author, Ustinov's renowned gift for mimicry is exploited to the full in Dear Me. I found it interesting and en......more

No idea how I came across this book. Turns out to be an absolute gem. The funniest autobiography I have read. Ustinov is very witty. This book makes fantastic light reading.......more

I've never rated Ustinov highly as an actor as I've found the performances of his that I've seen to be clever but somewhat superficial. I can't remember ever feeling moved by him in a film and I've got little time for all that Hercule Poirot shite. However, I recently watched an interview with him (......more

For a clever, comic writer like Ustinov, I thought the book lacked humor, and was so self-consciously erudite that it verged on being pretentious. I was also put-off by how very little of Ustinov himself was in the book. He spent a great deal of time detailing his family history, and delving into hi......more

If it doesn't quite make five stars, it's only because the second half lacks the brilliance of the first. Ustinov himself states that there's more interest for him writing about his formative years than his working years, so perhaps there was an argument for settling what the book was actually to be......more