He clearly knows what he is doing as a writer as well as an actor.
And he hooks the read in within the first few pages with a story about a vibrator. Rob Lowe writes fluidly, easily engaging the readers with lots of little anecdotes and a ton of name dropping. But it also contains humour: I found myself laughing out loud at the thought of the headline 'Rob Lowe shot dead in forest, mistaken for Big Foot' or 'Rob Lowe's secret fetish: dressing up as Big Foot and roaming forest making wild mating calls'.
Such openness prompted me to shed a tear or two. He shares his feelings with the reader about fatherhood and how much it means to him, and the love he has for his children. Love Life is a more emotional read, mostly due to it being written when Rob Lowe's son was about to go off to college. I have always been an unabashed fan of Rob Lowe, since my teenage years when I would gorge myself on his movies and everything 'brat pack', and I also enjoyed his first autobiography 'Stories I Only Tell My Friends', which went into detail about the Outsiders and all the actors involved in it. Building on Stories I Only Tell My Friends, Love Life is the literary equivalent of returning to a favourite restaurant to savour a completely different, delicious new dish. The story of coming to terms with his son's departure to college for the education his father never got will touch anyone with a family. You'll delight at the hilarious account of the time a major movie star stole his girlfriend, and of coaching a kid's basketball team dominated by omnipresent helicopter parents. Among the many adventures Lowe describes in Love Life are what it's like in the trenches as both the star and producer of a flop TV show how a visit, as a twenty year old, to Hugh Hefner's Playboy Mansion led to a surprise in the hot tub how an actor prepares for a role, as well as the practical, boots-on-the-ground details no drama or film school would ever teach you. The result is a touching memoir about the business and craft of acting, the pitfalls of success, family, love, and much more. After writing his acclaimed debut effort, Lowe felt he had more stories to share and many more friends to introduce. Love Life serves up another delicious selection of intimate stories and observations from Lowe's life, told with humour, warmth, and brutal honesty. Actor Rob Lowe is an entertaining raconteur whose bestselling first book, Stories I Only Tell My Friends: An Autobiography, was hailed as "self-deprecatingly funny" (The New York Times) and "thoroughly entertaining" (Time) and earned the author the cover of Vanity Fair.
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