Cathleen's review
The Film Club: A Memoir
by David Gilmour
By not finishing, you didn't miss much. It was awful.
Good to know, though I'm very sorry that you were exposed to it in its entirety. I just cannot understand the positive reviews that keep popping up.
Wow, that sounds something more like "hey, we were these people who did this crazy and quirky thing that was cool so I should brag about it now!" than it does a valid anything.
Exactly. Well said!
Cathleen's review
The Film Club: A Memoir by David Gilmour
Cathleen's review
rating:
bookshelves:
abandoned,
non-fiction
I quit. I cannot stand to read any more. I had been looking forward to reading this and was very much hoping to include it in the library's blog, but I can't do it. I kept pushing and reached the half-way mark, but no more.
A father allows his teenage son to drop out of school on the condition they together watch three movies (of his dad's choice) a week -- no job required, no pretense of schooling. The movies themselves are only cursorily discussed, which seems one of the biggest flaws both with the plan and with the book.
Yes, I get it that this was more about the two spending time together and building communication, but when the father condones heavy drinking, smoking, and sex in the house, and he just waits for his son to have a random epiphany about moving forward in life, he loses huge points in credibility, to say the least. The father himself is self-congratulatory in the worst way and more than happy to excuse even glaring faults in himself; I neither liked nor cou...more
A father allows his teenage son to drop out of school on the condition they together watch three movies (of his dad's choice) a week -- no job required, no pretense of schooling. The movies themselves are only cursorily discussed, which seems one of the biggest flaws both with the plan and with the book.
Yes, I get it that this was more about the two spending time together and building communication, but when the father condones heavy drinking, smoking, and sex in the house, and he just waits for his son to have a random epiphany about moving forward in life, he loses huge points in credibility, to say the least. The father himself is self-congratulatory in the worst way and more than happy to excuse even glaring faults in himself; I neither liked nor cou...more
By not finishing, you didn't miss much. It was awful.
Good to know, though I'm very sorry that you were exposed to it in its entirety. I just cannot understand the positive reviews that keep popping up.
Wow, that sounds something more like "hey, we were these people who did this crazy and quirky thing that was cool so I should brag about it now!" than it does a valid anything.
Exactly. Well said!
