Spinning Disney's World - Charles Ridgeway

Disney Legend Charles Ridgway looks back on over forty years of working as a press agent with the Mouse, from Disneyland, to Walt Disney World, to Euro-Disney and beyond. Filled with light-hearted and hilarious reminiscences of famous people and outlandish publicity stunts, this memoir will delight Disney fans young and old.


This book was written from a journalist viewpoint, which made reading a little dry. I was hoping for another side to behind the scenes gossip, but i didn't feel like i learnt anything new.  In most part, although i feel i know some about Disney lands i could not relate to any of the areas he was talking about from the book and it felt like a completely different place.

On the positive side it was nice to read about Disney world from the beginning.  Ridgeway knew and met Walt which gave an interesting insight into how Disney began, but again i felt some of the stories and information was a little disjointed.

Overall i was a little disappointed with this book, I did not get into it as much as I liked and I could not enjoy it.  I felt the stories a little dry and not enough 'gossip' about behind the scenes as I would have liked.