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Squirrel Eyes
by
Scott S. Phillips (Goodreads Author)
SQUIRREL EYES is the story of Alvin Bandy, lifelong movie junkie and would-be filmmaker, who finds himself alone in Hollywood after his girlfriend Alison sends him packing in favor of another man. With his career — if you can call it that, when it consists of one incredibly bad movie he wrote — on the rocks, Alvin hatches a drunken plan to course-correct his screwed-up lif...more
Paperback, 2nd, 260 pages
Published
January 31st 2012
by Createspace
(first published November 27th 2010)
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Apr 11, 2011
Ceridwen
rated it
4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
NSP, maybe Caris, possibly Michael, people who like moviemaking in general
Recommended to Ceridwen by:
Scott Phillips
Cross-posted on Readerling
Edit: Scott Phillips posted this video of The Blue Man, which is the short film the protagonist made as a kid in the book, and Scott made in real life as a kid in, um, real life. Super 8mm done by kids about a post-apoc wasteland in the 70s! <3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...
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Oh man, this book was so fun to read. I didn't really know what to expect, because I've seen a few of Scott's movies, which are definitely more on the grindhouse end of things. Fi...more
Edit: Scott Phillips posted this video of The Blue Man, which is the short film the protagonist made as a kid in the book, and Scott made in real life as a kid in, um, real life. Super 8mm done by kids about a post-apoc wasteland in the 70s! <3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...
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Oh man, this book was so fun to read. I didn't really know what to expect, because I've seen a few of Scott's movies, which are definitely more on the grindhouse end of things. Fi...more
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3-1/2 stars
An enjoyable read. Alvin is a likable guy with problems - his girlfriend of two years has left him for a new guy and Alvin's own career isn't anywhere he thought it would be by this point. Hollywood maybe a place where dreams are put on screen, but it's also a place where dreamers, even hard working ones, find themselves dragged through the muck and mire, scrambling just to find purchase. Mr. Phillips has caught this vibe quite nicely.
Alvin decides to go home and try to recapture some...more
An enjoyable read. Alvin is a likable guy with problems - his girlfriend of two years has left him for a new guy and Alvin's own career isn't anywhere he thought it would be by this point. Hollywood maybe a place where dreams are put on screen, but it's also a place where dreamers, even hard working ones, find themselves dragged through the muck and mire, scrambling just to find purchase. Mr. Phillips has caught this vibe quite nicely.
Alvin decides to go home and try to recapture some...more
Nov 12, 2012
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Scott S. Phillips has written in almost every capacity imaginable: films, TV, comic books and even dialogue for talking dolls. He's the author of the short story collection TALES OF MISERY AND IMAGINATION, as well as the novels SQUIRREL EYES (and its spin-off stories of jack-of-all-trades Boone Butters) and FRIDAY THE 13th: CHURCH OF THE DIVINE PSYCHOPATH. His film reviews have been collected in t...more
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