Karl's review of The Other Hollywood: The Uncensored Oral History of the Porn Film Industry
The Other Hollywood: The Uncensored Oral History of the Porn Film Industry by Legs McNeil
It was okay. I was enjoying this book for the first 200 - 300 pages. I then got a bit bored. There are interesting parts and scandal (Linda Lovelace, Marilyn Chambers, John Holmes, Traci Lords, etc.) hidden in the middle of tedium. I think if the book was cut by 200 pages, it would have been a more interesting read, but far less comprehensive. I think the main problem was that there were many times that I had no clue who the person talking actually was. When a person was first introduced, they are credited as 'porn star', 'porn director', 'FBI agent', etc... But since there are so many people giving their stories, everyone but the most famous names are quickly forgotten. Legs McNeil got around this in his other book ('Please Kill Me') by including a roster of people and a brief description of who they are at the end of the book. The only reason that I can see it was not included was that there were so many people involved that to list them all in summary would have added another 25-50 ...more
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