I love Fred Astaire, so I did like all the information I got from this book, even if it wasn't all that new to me -- Fred Astaire as an icon is just that fascinating to me.However, I didn't really enjoy the writing style or tone. The biographer's presence was really there at times, which I find rather annoying as I think a good biographer should focus on the subject more, not inject his view of the subject as much. Unfortunately, the author did this a bit too much for me (even if it wasn't completely pervasive throughout the whole book, it was still enough to make me aware of the biographer more than I care for in biography writing, excluding autobiographies, of course). On top of that, I just wasn't a fan of his writing style, even if it wasn't bad or anything.Still, I adore Fred Astaire, so it was worth reading in that respect.