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Robin by Dave Itzkoff
4.0

Good biography of Robin Williams, like most biography does, it focus a bit too much on its profession résumé/filmography and not enough about its personal life. Still we get the impression to know him a bit more after reading it and I read it trying to understand why he choose to end his life. In the recent years I try to understand why so many great mind and artist decide to kill themselves and even if we see a lot of them, way too many, I remember learning about his passing and felt very sentimental about it, it was one a the few celebrity death that really get to me (the other being Chester Bennington, I cried for two days). That being said we can never really explain or understand what a person is going through in their own head, but this book is definitely a biography worth reading if you're a fan of Robin Williams!