Nice Things by James Franco

by Sean Lovelace, Mark Neely

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, and incidents have been fed through the elaborate machine of James Franco's imagination. Though passages relating to health, fitness, and creative writing do draw on the author's extensive education, they should not be substituted for the medical advice of physicians.

64 pages, Paperback

Published February 29, 2016

Reviews

[Tonee Mae Moll]

A neat book, conceptually. The authors are imitating both the style and the themes of James Franco the author figure. The shortcoming seems to be how narrow the audience who can appreciate this art must be. Whether the audience is to take it seriously (Franco as it's own multi-genre form), or to take the book in stride as parody (more likely), it seems like one would have to be well read in Franco to be in on the joke. How big could that population possibly be?

[Zamarit]

Well it's James Franco sooo technically a lot of McDonalds, insert James Franco here, a metaphor there, more McDonald's, we can't have nice things poetry breaks and more James Franco.

Honestly though it's entertaining for a quick read. Doesn't make much sense, but it's James Franco.
I did enjoy the poetry breaks though where he repeated the whole "we can't have nice things" deal.

I've read most of his work so I'm kind of used to his style by now, but I will say don't go into this too seriously. lol

[Anne]

You can read my 16 June 2016 review of Nice Things by James Franco at Change Seven Magazine. Here's a link to it: https://changesevenmag.com/2016/06/16...