false <![CDATA[Zeroville]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1190241683m/921569.jpg 921569 1 <p>"Erickson is as unique and vital and pure a voice as American fiction has produced."-Jonathan Lethem</p> <p>A film-obsessed ex-seminarian with images of Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift tattooed on his head arrives on Hollywood Boulevard in 1969. Vikar Jerome enters the vortex of a cultural transformation: rock and roll, sex, drugs, and-most important to him-the decline of the movie studios and the rise of independent directors. Jerome becomes a film editor of astonishing vision. Through encounters with former starlets, burglars, political guerillas, punk musicians, and veteran filmmakers, he discovers the secret that lies in every movie ever made.</p> 906598 1 11 2007 Zeroville total:402|5:128|4:166|3:81|2:22|1:5| 402 1596 681 128 4 7 false false Wed Mar 19 09:43:12 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 31 08:28:05 -0700 2008
It lost one star for the ending, which I wouldn't usually do (by 'ending' here, I mean lite...more...]]> 4 12 false false Sun Dec 28 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 25 20:49:13 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 28 10:41:38 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 2 true false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 02 16:07:44 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 09 10:47:46 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 2 false false Tue May 27 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Dec 02 09:10:40 -0800 2007 Thu May 29 06:30:28 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Jul 03 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 03 11:56:35 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 03 12:00:50 -0700 2008 By NICK MOORE
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“I don’t even think of Zeroville as a ‘Hollywood novel,’” Erickson says, unassuming and barely audible under the ArcLight sound system, which is blaring Bernard Herrmann from...more...]]> 5 2 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Mar 08 12:17:33 -0800 2008 Sat Mar 08 12:56:37 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 1 false false Sat Apr 05 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Mar 12 10:05:44 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 05 08:45:52 -0700 2008 more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Feb 05 09:53:41 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:53:41 -0800 2009 An underappreciated writer who has been compared to Vladimir Nabokov, Don DeLillo, and Thomas Pynchon, Steve Erickson often writes challenging and sometimes impenetrably surreal fiction. Zeroville, his eighth novel, seems poised for commercial success: although intelligent and playful, Zeroville is ...

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What begins as an absurdist Hollywood farce--John Milius bellowing on the set of Love Story, run-ins with De Palma and De Niro in Malibu--transforms, by the end, into a Jungian nightmare: Dreams, films, and the Bi...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed May 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu May 14 22:16:50 -0700 2009 Thu May 14 22:24:42 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Dec 21 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 21 10:02:57 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 21 10:20:32 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Nov 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Oct 25 23:15:23 -0700 2009 Fri Nov 06 13:58:57 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Dec 14 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 14 09:47:31 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 16 11:40:26 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 true false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 14 07:32:49 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 01 09:01:34 -0800 2008 Once more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Apr 17 09:56:02 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 17 09:58:38 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Jun 30 15:34:30 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 30 15:35:34 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false true Wed Apr 30 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Dec 31 11:08:02 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 01 19:46:47 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 3 false false Wed Nov 12 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 12 12:35:58 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 12 15:01:29 -0800 2008 Zeroville is what happens when a brilliant film critic writes a brilliant novel. Steve Erickson is the film critic for Los Angeles Magazine, and though I've never read any of his movie reviews I can't imagine he's anything less than brilliant based on the quality of the prose in this novel, and the ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Oct 02 09:35:25 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 02 09:47:23 -0700 2008 1 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Sep 22 01:14:50 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 08 18:38:41 -0700 2008
This is a book about the secret power of old Hollywood, about the graveyards and ghosts of the movie industry, about living in an L.A. in which no one cares about its history but you, and about watching a whole system that ...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=921569