Love Life

Love Life by Rob Lowe
Published April 28, 2014

About the Book:

When Rob Lowe's first book was published in 2011, he received the kind of rapturous reviews that writers dream of and rocketed to the top of the bestseller list. Now, in Love Life, he expands his scope, using stories and observations from his life in a poignant and humorous series of true tales about men and women, art and commerce, fathers and sons, addiction and recovery, and sex and love.

In Love Life, you will find stories about:

• Kissing Unexpectedly
• The secrets they don't teach you in acting school
• His great, great, great, great, great-grandfather's role in the American revolution
• Parks and Recreation, Behind the Candelabra, and Californication
• Trying to coach a kids' basketball team dominated by helicopter parents
• The hot tub at the Playboy mansion
• Starring in and producing a flop tv series
• Camping at Sea World
• Playing saxophone for president Bill Clinton
• The first journey to college with his son
• Warren Beatty
• The benefits of marriage

Throughout this entertaining book, you will find yourself in the presence of a master raconteur, a multi-talented performer whose love for life is as intriguing as his love life.

My Thoughts:

I have a total love-hate relationship with this book.  It's well-written, and Lowe is a great storyteller for the most part.  He also does seem like a great husband and father.  That being said, he also seems like a total douchebag.  He's just way too pompous for me, and much of the book rubbed me the wrong way.  I was especially bothered by a remark about libraries being irrelevant (page 205).  Not cool!  I did read the entire book, though I was really tempted to stop several times.  I found that I would read for a bit and start to like him better, and then boom, he would piss me off.  Oh well, despite the issues with him, it still wasn't that bad of a read.  He has some interesting stories to tell and can actually write.