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Bezig met laden... The Comedy Writerdoor Peter Farrelly
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Well, the jacket said this book was "sidesplittingly hilarious" but I beg to differ. It was funny in places and I definitely enjoyed reading it but it wasn't *that* funny. Maybe it was the repetitious obsession with sex and masturbating, maybe it was the storyline which focuses on a screenwriter trying to get his big break in Hollywood which didn't really grab me, maybe it was all the sad characters...but it just didn't grab me and it didn't make me laugh. There is a hint at depth in the storyline and characterisation as well as a darkness: the protagonist feels very guilty about his involvement in a suicide (we only find out the whole truth towards the end of the book) and he gets embroiled with a damaged woman called Colleen as a result. His hypochondria knits the novel together as well as his nostalgia for past relationships, which I think is dealt with well by the author. But overall, it was an average read for me. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
A Confederacy of Dunces meets The Player in an offbeat, sidesplittingly hilarious novel about making it against all odds in 1990s' Hollywood, by the co-writer/director of Dumb and Dumber. When Henry Halloran's girlfriend dumped him, his Boston-based life suddenly seemed pointless. He was thirty-two with a dead-end job, and nothing on the horizon. There was obviously only one place to go: Hollywood. The Comedy Writer is the story of how Henry--armed with nothing more than a few ideas, a nothing-to-lose attitude, and the desire to be a screenwriter--joins myriad hopefuls in the City of Angels and achieves an L.A. kind of fame. From the surreal squalor of his one-room pad at the Blue Terrace apartments, he encounters nympho starlets, death-obsessed Rollerbladers, philosophical midgets, scruple-free producers, and an unforgettably psychotic roommate named Colleen. Combining the mordant wit and insight of Nathanael West with the lyricism and irony of a postmodern Candide, The Comedy Writer is a bawdy romp around and through the dream factory, in which Henry learns that while talent and integrity may be relative terms, life does, after all, have meaning. Sure to appeal to anyone who has ever dreamed of Hollywood success, who has found him- or herself a full-fledged adult without a clue for the future, or whoever thought Los Angeles might represent the end of modern civilization, The Comedy Writer is an incomparable comic tour de force marked by the kind of telling detail only a true insider can provide. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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