Silver Screen Fiend: Learning About Life from an Addiction to Film
by:
Patton Oswalt (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781451673210 (1451673213)
ASIN: 1451673213
Publish date: January 6th 2015
Publisher: Scribner
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Humor,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Comedy,
Media Tie In,
Movies,
Culture,
Film,
Biography Memoir
Not really funny but very entertaining. I quite enjoyed it. Prior to reading this I had no idea Patton wrote books so I guess I need to scrounge around the library and find more.
I can relate to Patton's obsessive movie-watching behavior as recounted in this short book (quite short - so you know the last twenty pages comprise a list of every film Patton saw in the time these stories happen). Somewhere in the house I have a scrapbook in which I kept every stub from every movi...
Short, succinct and honest, Oswalt's second memoir is a no holds barred account of the four years he spent totally addicted to cinema, as well as his progression through the ranks of stand-up comedy. Full review here http://ifthesebookscouldtalk.com/2015/01/02/review-silver-screen-fiend/
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