Very insightful and extremely relaxing to listen to.

Listening to Don Bluth’s voice was a tremendous treat! I loved how he stayed enthusiastic throughout the reading of his book.
It is extremely informative about his career and personal life.
While Mr. Bluth provided a very detailed and fascinating description of his relationship with John Lounsbery (one of his most important Disney mentors) and how he almost married his daughter Andrea Lounsbery, Mr. Bluth sadly skipped a few important details concerning the censoring of his movies (only the censoring of “Land Before Time” and his impression of the traumatizing death of Littlefoot’s mother are thematized in this book). As a historian, I hoped I could have learned more as to how he felt when a gigantic amount of his fully animated sequences for his movies “The Land Before Time”, “All Dogs Go To Heaven”, “Rock-a-Doodle”, and “Pebble and the Penguin” was sliced out and mostly destroyed and later rediscovered again. A few scenes miraculously survived and can be watched on YouTube today such as the Hell scene from “All Dogs Go To Heaven” and the Skunk Pie Sequence from “Rock-a-Doodle”. I would have been particularly interested as to how Mr. Bluth reacted when he realized that the master negative of “All Dogs” which was stolen from his archives in Phoenix, Arizona, by one of his employees while working on “Anastasia” for Fox resurfaced in 2016 when an animation student on the Disney lot secretly filmed a screening of the uncensored Hell Scene from “All Dogs” by his female animation teacher in a classroom and uploaded it to the Internet. Unfortunately, the student and the female teacher, the probable owner of the uncut version of “All Dogs”, remain unknown. Perhaps some day we will be lucky enough to see more deleted scenes and uncut versions resurface out of the blue.
Another aspect I would have loved to read more about was his relationship with his younger brother Fred (later Toby Bluth) who like Don Bluth also worked for Disney as an artist. Did they work together at some point? Mr. Bluth mentioned him in the book’s first half many times, but then he never mentioned his younger brother again in the second half.
I would recommend that you watch interviews with him on YouTube, to fill in the missing dots, where he elaborated on certain topics a lot more than he did in the book, for example the heated discussion as to whether children should be confronted with traumatizing scenes like the death of a parent or not (e.g. “Bambi” and “Land Before Time”).

Concerning the book’s structure, I felt like that the first half was far more elaborate than the second half. But overall, this book is beautifully written and never sags.

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