This may be the best book about python yet, but it is very annoying to read because it is rife with repetitions of previously stated information. Every time a particular incident is mentioned (for example: when Terry Gilliam and John Cleese met during a photo session for HELP magazine), the author goes back and retells the entire story and its events before adding the new bit of information that he could just have easily mentioned the first time around. This doesn't just happen in two's though. He retells stories sometimes as many as ten times! Also, when an incident is spoken of by more than one person, each of their comments are reproduced, even if they aren't much different than the other person's version. Then two chapters later, another person may talk about the same event, again, not adding anything to the story! I just wanted to scream "I just read about that! STOP WASTING MY TIME!" I think he may have felt it was necessary to put stories in proper historical context, but that would have served better by creating a chart of significant events and dates for us to refer to if we weren't too sure about when they happened. I'm enjoying it otherwise, but mostly due to the brilliance of the pythons themselves, rather than the skill of the author, who is very disorganized and writes with supprisingly little humor or cleverness. I recently read a book about the making of SCTV by one of the cast members, and that one was brilliantly funny, inciteful, and far more eyeopening than this book.
