Best may be a successful screen writer, but that doesn't translate to good book writing. This is mostly a biography of the author, and you will learn little of James Dean that you don't know already. The book is mostly about Best, and it is pretty vapid, superficial, gay guy reading. There are homosexuals, and there are flamboyant gays, and Best is the latter. James Dean, who may or may not have been homosexual, was definitely not gay. There is not a lot to write about a life that was cut so short and that lived so little. The young man was a giant, but you will find little insight to that mystic in this book.