Em uma Los Angeles frenética, que vive a explosão de Hollywood, na década de 30, Arturo Bandini, um aspirante a escritor (alter ego de Fante) ganha...
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Jan 19, 2010
Oscar
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Este Arturo Bandini sí que me gusta. Sigue teniendo sus locuras pero no son tan exageradas ni me sacan tanto de quicio como en 'Camino de Los Ángeles'. John Fante utiliza a su alter ego Arturo Bandini para hacer lo que mejor sabe, escribir una gran historia llena de humor, entremezclada con bondad y ternura.
En este caso tenemos a Bandini tratando de abrirse paso en el mundo de la escritura de guiones para Hollywood, donde conocerá a los personajes más variopintos. Cómo no, su andadur More...
En este caso tenemos a Bandini tratando de abrirse paso en el mundo de la escritura de guiones para Hollywood, donde conocerá a los personajes más variopintos. Cómo no, su andadur More...
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Feb 15, 2009
Xon
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Just finished a long, challenging, deep book and decided to follow it up with some Fante. This guy is great. Not his best but great in it's simplicity and entertainment. He wasn't quite as pissed off in this book and didn't fly off the handle as much as I like, but it still works. Would've given this book 3 stars except it has one of the best quotes I have ever read. I hate SoCal and love Boulder so to see this line made me smile for hours.... "So fuck you, Los Angeles, fuck your palm
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Jan 04, 2010
Núria
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Cuando empiezo un libro de John Fante la única duda que tengo es si me va a gustar, si me va a gustar mucho o si me va a gustar muchísimo. 'Sueños de Bunker Hill' me ha gustado muchísimo. Ya puedo decir que es de mis favoritos de Fante, junto con 'La hermandad de la uva', 'Pregúntale al polvo' y 'Mi perro idiota'. Esta vez, Arturo Bandini, el alter ego de Fante, se encuentra instalado en Los Ángeles y su carrera como guionista de Hollywood empieza a despegar. Ya no es más pobre que las ratas, pe
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Aug 02, 2011
DREAMS FROM BUNKER HILL was John Fante's last book and can be considered his "Hollywood novel". It was composed under decidedly difficult circumstances--Fante, blind from diabetes, dictated it to his wife Joyce, who must have found it an odd experience to jot down all the references to women's behinds scattered throughout this story of the young, sexually voracious Arturo Bandini, Fante's alter ego. This novel shows that Fante's talent remained intact to the end, it's topped perhaps o
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Aug 16, 2009
Patrick
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The same crazy Fante as Ask the Dust - only a little less hungry, a little less prone to taking chances, a little more formulistic in feel. Albeit he dictated this to his wife after becoming blind due to complications from diabetes. Which could definitely put a damper on one's writing style. So yeah, what do I know. Contains one of the funniest responses ever from a fan to an uppity writer - I laughed out loud in public when reading this.
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Jan 09, 2011
Thatsbadshiva
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The clarity of thought in this one blows you away. Even if you don't know too much about the book's background, your subconscious will take note of the precession with which every comma falls in place. Style and form; Fante mastered them both to a very high degree in this one, although it is a little less raw than his earlier ones but it is full of life like his earlier works!
Jan 20, 2012
Maria Carolina
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Eu me apaixono por Arturo Bandini a cada vez que leio as suas histórias. Fante é um cara genial e o seu Bandini é um dos personagens mais honestos que eu já li. Falo de honestidade aqui no sentido sentimental: Bandini é ingênuo e refém de suas vontades. Não tem a menor cerimônia e falta um bocado de bom senso. Leitura deliciosa!
Nov 15, 2010
Marius
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Decent enough, first book I've read by Fante, and his last. Tells about his early time in LA working as a screen writer. Some funny episodes, some sentimental, all good, but hardly outstanding. Enjoyable and recommendable.
Dec 17, 2009
Richard
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read all these Fante books in 2000 when I moved to Solano Canyon down the street from where old Bandini did his shit. Makes a Dirty Dago feel good to be in LA
Oct 31, 2007
v v
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A sequel to Ask the Dust. I have to say (I love Fante), part 1 left off at a point I didn't want to revisit. Especially if the love interest in Dust, readers were so invested in, changed into a lackluster one as did the one in Dreams, Jennifer Lovelace. While Dust deftly tackled the issue of class, Dreams falls short of this. . . it skirts around the idea.
Why read Dreams: You're a Fante fan, you have to read this. Arturo Bandini still manages to fuck with women, get rejected, and curse all More...
Why read Dreams: You're a Fante fan, you have to read this. Arturo Bandini still manages to fuck with women, get rejected, and curse all More...
Oct 29, 2010
EsMerol
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Releído por ese amargo sabor que como en el vino o la cerveza, a veces de la nada antoja catarse.
Sep 08, 2010
Aris
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Every one of these Fante books I read reiterates that he's got LA's number.
Jun 23, 2009
a great story of early hollywood...when writing actually could get you a job.
Oct 13, 2009
Corey
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I love the Bandini books. They always make me want to write another novel.
Jan 16, 2012
Gregory
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Originally read this almost 10 years after a year (2002) when I discovered two of my absolute favorite authors: Knut Hamsun and John Fante. I had discovered Fante in August of 2002 and by January of 2003, with the reading of Dreams from Bunker Hill, had read all his published work. This book is just as powerful as it was 10 years ago. John Fante knew how to write. The story of him as a young aspiring writer in Hollywood approaching Sinclair Lewis at a restaurant is hilarious.
Dec 17, 2009
Barbarajean
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Another Fante. I can't help it, I love this man. This was not a bad effort but it lacked his poignant descriptions that usually seemed so effortless and the tortured protagonist was too easy to read. So, it fell one notch and I was afraid he was losing his magic at this point in his career. But I'm a sensible gal and I know there is no way Fante would let that happen. I attribute the faults to the fact that he was blind at this point and dictated the story to his wife.
Aug 04, 2008
Ben
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"She turned and left me alone. I dried myself off, got into my shorts and walked into the kitchen. She was at the stove, cooking my breakfast, her back to me. Skilled ass man that I was, I quickly detected the contraction of her buttocks-- a sure sign of rage in a woman. Experience had taught me great caution in the face of such dramatic change in the derriere and I was quiet as I sat down. It was like being in the presence of a coiled snake."
Aug 05, 2008
Glenn
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I loved every John Fante book I have read, which is most of his books. Great story telling, some of the best and most original scenes I've encountered, and great showing of the character's thought process in a very organic way. Some of the funniest, and some of the saddest, fiction I've read. Fante is one of Charles Bukowski's heroes.
Sep 18, 2007
Eric
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The humor in this book makes it quite appealing, and the prose is lively and buoyant. Not much of a plot, and the love story could be better crafted, though. In the voice and the protagonist Arturo Bandini one can see similarities to Bukowski and his protagonist Henry Chinaski.
Sep 17, 2007
Jose
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At the end of his life Fante had gone blind. This, his last book, was dictated to his wife who typed it out for him. That merits four stars as opposed to the three it would have gotten because under such daunting circumstances he was still able to "write" a good story.
Aug 06, 2008
William Thomas
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not as good as ask the dust and maybe a little repetitive when compared to his other work, but this book is well worth it and not very long. even as i get older, i still enjoy all these alcoholic romantics. maybe because that is where i was for so very long.
Jul 02, 2008
Andy
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I liked this more than "Ask The Dust" because Fante talks about all the BS that's Hollywood. There's a melodramatic subplot about him falling in love with his landlady, 20 years his senior. I hope they film this one without Colin Farrell.
Oct 06, 2008
E
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Written a lifetime after Ask the Dust, it was inevitable that it wouldn't measure up. It held my attention and I was able to read it almost entirely on a 3 hour plane ride. But, it was a far cry from his earlier work. A bit tedious.
