Always Looking Up: The Adventures Of An Incurable Optimist

I thought it was a well written book and insightfully honest writing by Michael J. Fox. He is witty, self preserving and straight forward in his thinking. He has a social conscience and very aware of fund raising ideas and problems that occur when you are attempting to raise funds for this important cause.

I'm not a big fan of celebrity memoirs but Always Looking Up by MJ Fox was a very good read. His writing style is very enjoyable and entertaining, and his story is inspirational to say the least. Fox does not shy away from writing about his condition and the book gives a detailed, but easily understandable, explanation of Parkinson's disease and his personal experiences coping with it.

I find many celebrity authors come across as arrogant but this was not the case at all with this book. Fox comes across as a real person, dealing with the same issues we all deal with: career, family, health, etc. It's funny how he managed to do that in a book where he also mentions random run-ins with Robin Williams...how many people could pull that off? I also enjoyed how he detailed starting his Foundation and his work lobbying for the PD community. It was inspirational.

An entertaining memoir!

Always Looking Up, The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist is a fantastic memoir from a fantastic person.
I absolutely loved reading it. He has a great writing style, much like reading a long letter from an articulate and interesting loved one. He shares things that clearly he finds genuinely interesting rather than just mentioning things to impress his readers.
I loved "Lucky Man" his autobiography so much, and I was pleased that this one is much along the same lines. Nobody writes a memoir like him, and I hope he will write another one one day!