The Other Side of Me by Sidney Sheldon is a cool kind of memoir. First, because it’s about the other side, the not-known-by-all-people side of a famous figure, that is, Sidney Sheldon himself. Yeah, it’s true, bro. It does not tell about Sidney Sheldon’s life as a writer, I mean as the author of around twenty something thriller novels some of which has been made movies and miniseries. Instead, it tells about Sidney Sheldon’s life—and almost death—as a scriptwriter, directors, Hollywood motion picture studio readers, and that sort of things. He wrote the stories of I Dream of Jeannie. Hart to Hart is HIS TV series. He worked once in MGM—the roaring lion movie studio, :D.
Second, because you can learn a lot of lessons from his life. If you’re a writer, you’ll learn about being stubborn with you ideals, that is, being a great writer. Or, you’ll also learn to use opportunities at hand as good as possible, not to let it go, even a bit, from his experience writing a script with his friend only in one night, just because if he failed to do it he would lose that superrare opportunity to be a successful young script writer.
Third, because the book itself is presented in a very fluid fashion. It even smells like thrillers. Sometimes Mr. Sheldon rouses our expectation and then he smashes it all up and, at other times, he discourage our expectation and all of a sudden he gives a very pleasingly surprising resolution. Hey, he didn’t make those stories up, man—at least if we see him as an honest memoirist. So, isn’t it cool to read someone’s real life in a thrilling fashion?
