Sean Connery: A Biography

In good condition and worth buy and I bought it for my dad for Christmas and I’m dad who big James Bond fan and he’s favourite James Bond is Sean Connery

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This biography of Sean Connery, with its description assessment of his work in theatre and especially film, is a worthwhile read. It falls far short of being one of the great books on film, but Bray does his conscientiously enough, so reading the book pays dividends in understanding for those who admire Connery as a man, as a Scottish patriot, as an handsome dude of studly heft and macho bearing (something that Bray himself actually emphasises), and as an actor. The author discusses the films as they occur in the biography of Connery`s life, not apart from it, which works just fine. The illustrations are good, though perhaps not always what piques the reader`s curiosity the most.The book is fairly copiously documented, though it would have been so much more convenient to put in references as footnotes than as backnotes, which would have saved the reader constant flipping back and forth in the tightly bound book (at least that being the case with the paperback`s glue binding). Bray uses much colloquial British usage (English and some Scots), which means for the North American reader that it is a good idea to have at hand one or two U.K.-published dictionaries. Two good editions of Chamber`s Dictionary did that job rather well, most of the time, for this reader.

This biography of Sean Connery, with its description assessment of his work in theatre and especially film, is a worthwhile read. It falls far short of being one of the great books on film, but Bray does his conscientiously enough, so reading the book pays dividends in understanding for those who admire Connery as a man, as a Scottish patriot, as an handsome dude of studly heft and macho bearing (something that Bray himself actually emphasises), and as an actor. The author discusses the films as they occur in the biography of Connery`s life, not apart from it, which works just fine. The illustrations are good, though perhaps not always what piques the reader`s curiosity the most.The book is fairly copiously documented, though it would have been so much more convenient to put in references as footnotes than as backnotes, which would have saved the reader constant flipping back and forth in the tightly bound book (at least that being the case with the paperback`s glue binding). Bray uses much colloquial British usage (English and some Scots), which means for the North American reader that it is a good idea to have at hand one or two U.K.-published dictionaries. Two good editions of Chamber`s Dictionary did that job rather well, most of the time, for this reader.

Less a biography of the actor than a series of diatribes against anything that didn't appeal to the author's aesthetics, I finished this book not knowing much more about Sean Connery than when I started it. The lack of insightful information about the actor is padded out with self-indulgent references about how the author would like to be Sean Connery, repetitive praise for how well Connery moves about on a film set, cheap jibes against Roger Moore and his Bond movies, and a series of subjective and tedious critiques about Connery's films. When the author, Christopher Bray, describes 'For Your Eyes Only' as "excitement-free", Connery's Bond as "humourless" in 'Never Say Never Again' and states that "more happens in the movie's (Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade) two hours than the whole of Roger Moore Bond Saga", you know that even any pretence to a factual and balanced biography has gone out the window.