Michael Landon
The Career and Artistry of a Television Genius

I'm actually a bit surprised how much I came to enjoy this book after I discovered that this book was not so much a Michael Landon biography as a study of Landon's work both front and behind the camera. This should teach me to check what I request from NetGalley a bit more careful. But then again I......more

As the author starts the book, if you’re looking for all the dirt and scandal about Michael Landon’s life, marriages and loves, then this is not the book for you. I’m sure there’s another more salacious biography out there, which will cover what you need to know. This slim volume (it’s only 169 page......more

Honestly? Not a great book at all, more of a selective episode guide for Landon's work with periodic pulls from other sources. That said, it's more engaging than I found Melissa Sue Anderson's book, for example, which struck me similarly (so much time spent just telling the stories of key episodes).......more

A good look at an amazing television and film career. I knew it was not a book on personal tidbits and the such but with a complete lack of the personal, the book was very dry. Literally describing plots of episodes for shows and then jumping to another quickly without even a blink. It seemed steril......more