October 30, 2008
Peanuts
Book review on Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography by David Michaelis:
His one regret, he said, was that he never once let Charlie Brown kick the football held out for him by Lucy: always she snatched it away and always he landed on his back. What private frustrations that unkicked football represents one can only guess at, so perhaps the last word should be left to Linus, Schulz’s favourite character to draw. In one strip, he is trying to wheedle Lucy into reading a story to him. Exasperated, she grabs a book at random from the shelf – “A man was born, he lived and he died. The End!” she says and tosses the book aside. Linus picks it up reverently. “What a fascinating account,” he says. “It almost makes you wish you had known the fellow.”
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I’ve just borrowed this from the library and am tremendously excited to begin it. I just have to finish my book about , microbiology, Louis Pasteur, rabbits, Australia and chicken cholera, far more exciting than it has any right to be!
I have been wanting to read it for some time, so I am glad to hear somebody recommend it.