- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New edition edition (30 Oct 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140257233
- ISBN-13: 978-0140257236
- Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.6 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 503,166 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From New Year's Day 1995 to June 1996, Alec Guinness kept diaries in which he recorded not only day-to-day events, but also a range of memories, views and musings. Certain pre-occupations recur: theatre and film, books and paintings; the Church; food and drink and the delights of home and family. Friendship is also central to Sir Alec's life, and his friendship with Alan Bennett, Jill Balcon, Lauren Bacall and Barry Humphries, among others, forms the backbone of these wonderfully amusing diaries.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Although pottering around your country home, feeding the fish and descriptions of dogs' antics don't usually make riveting reading, in this witty memoir, Alec Guinness is as entertaining as in his previous auto "Blessings In Disguise". It's hard to imagine this man is the same one described in Garry O'Connors biography. O'Connor implies rough trade homosexuality, false modesty, a vicious tongue and unpleasantness to his wife, Guinness seems to me both a moral man and a devoted husband. Heartening to read that in his eighties he still made frequent London trips, to see the latest exhibition or play and keep up with friends. Guinness died three years ago aged 86, but obviously lived a wonderful and full life until the very end. One gripe though; he obviously hated the association with Star Wars, even though it must have kept him very comfortably for all those years. Surely science fiction is better than blacking up in Passage to India, eh Alec?!
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
How do you grab a reader's attention whilst discoursing about nothing very much? By getting Sir Alec Guiness to write for you, that's how. One wishes one could grow old with half the grace, wit and wisdom of this lovely man (if he would excuse the familiarity).
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I do like a good diary, they can fill pleasant little interludes in one particular room in the house, and I like Alec Guinness but this really was a dull affair. Having completed his lifes work Sir Alec potters at home ,has holidays and spends a lot of time going to dinner with friends. Nothing really happens and for all the charm there's very little to relate to. Diaries and biographies usually develope a momentum as we rush up to and pass the various key events in a life. Here we're firmly in the sidings at the end of the line and dusting the furniture.
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Graceful Old Age
A reminder to plan your 80s to be full of friends, good food, and art. It's also a reminder not to get too involved with bombing and shootings that happen every day -- which you... Read more
Published on 18 Nov 2009 by Three if by Space
Alec Guiness at his best
My Name Escapes Me was a very interesting read and because of this I will read his earlier book.
Published on 9 May 2009
Make mine a Guiness any day!
If you have an interest in the quirks of human nature and delight at the minutiae of day to day life then I hope you enjoy this book as much as I did. Read more
Published on 13 Feb 2008 by Book Ed
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