He was struggling throughout his youth just like most of us were. Throughout the book, you get to see that the creator of the strip is just like most of us. This book is about the life and work of the creator of the comic strip peanuts. However, I was able to enjoy this book to the last page. I have never read or watched any type of production of peanuts. Charlie Brown would be totally frustrated by it.
Overall the message comes through that Schulz was constantly depressed, a pretty negative guy, had a lot of anxieties, and despite being one of the world's most successful cartoonists never was really happy. Meanwhile she writes pages on a movie called The Girl in the Red Truck that no one has seen, which Schulz thought was his Citizen Kane only to have it bomb. His major TV specials and movies? Almost nothing in this book about them! Schulz didn't like most of them (even though he wrote them) so there are only a couple paragraphs about the Christmas special and a summary paragraph of a few others. Instead of really opening up his life with all its warts and successes, she only covers the things he wants covered, like his continued pining over the real the little red haired girl (which she was able to interview) or the real Charlie Brown. The book was supposedly authorized by Schulz, and she did get some inside interviews from him and those close to him. Paul, even though it's the same name as a famous college just a few blocks away) and that she barely covers a couple of the biggest projects he has ever done. Add to that her facts are often incorrect (she repeatedly misspells the name of the street he lived on in St. The writing style is obnoxious, with the author inserting her unintelligent two-cents worth at every opportunity, saying things we don't care about and adding information that has nothing to do with Charles Schulz.
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