{"id":2101,"date":"2010-04-27T02:29:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T07:29:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-03-27T21:20:39","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T02:20:39","slug":"book-review-big-life-of-little-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2010\/04\/27\/book-review-big-life-of-little-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: The Big Life of a Little Man"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a>Sometimes you find books on the shelf, and sometimes by a recommendation.  This time, I discovered the author.  Sherry Kelly with her husband Don had been told by a friend to try selling her book at a science fiction convention.  They came into the dealer room, looking for their table, which was directly across the aisle from mine.  They came well prepared, with a projector to show photos from the book and various visual aides.  It didn’t take me long to get caught up into their story.<\/p>\n

The Big Life of a Little Man<\/b> is the biography of the famous dwarf actor Michael Dunn who I remember from the Wild, Wild West<\/i> television show as Dr. Lovelace. He was also Sherry Kelly’s cousin and her depth of research included 175 footnotes, and that doesn’t count all the little remembrances I heard across the aisle over the course of the weekend.  So by Saturday, I was intrigued enough to buy a copy for myself.<\/p>\n

It’s now Monday, after reading the whole book through in one sitting.  It’s an engrossing tale, not only of an actor I remembered from back when, but also a engaging story of the other side of that life, his family.  Sherry includes many quotes from letters and stories from Michael Dunn himself as well as from a family that had gone the extra mile to raise a child with physical problems into a man with a full life that stamped his own imprint onto the world.<\/p>\n

To be honest, I’m not a huge reader of biographies, so I can only review this book as a tale, a story of emotion, struggles, victories and defeats.  Like I said.  I read it in one sitting, it carries a strong narrative, and with enough details about the man behind the actor that I really need to put the Wild, Wild West<\/i> DVD’s  and the movie Ship of Fools<\/i> on my viewing list. And I think after you read the book, you will too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sometimes you find books on the shelf, and sometimes by a recommendation.  This time, I discovered the author.  Sherry Kelly with her husband Don had been told by a friend to try selling her book at a science fiction convention.  They came into the dealer room, looking for their table, which was directly across the… Continue reading Book Review: The Big Life of a Little Man<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2102,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[174],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/scan0001.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4t90x-xT","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2104,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101\/revisions\/2104"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}