Share Your Thoughts

[Aaron]

What's that? You want a thread for discussing this book before the hangout?

As you wish...

[Ez, The God of Catan]

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEY!

Bill Goldman's Hollywood memoires/writing aids - Adventures in the Screen Trade and Which Lie Did I Tell are a must read for any one who loves film and gossip.

Man, he hates Dustin Hoffman.

[Aaron]

Inigo Montoya is my favorite from the film. Curious to see if that changes with the book.

[Ez, The God of Catan]

I really enjoy Bill Goldman's voice: his frustration with his life and his genius wife, his bafflement at Morgenstern for writing a thrilling yarn and wasting it inside a satire.

There have been plenty of times when I've read books and come to the conclusion that the characters or plots were too good for the writer's ability, and that they should have been taken away and redistributed to someone who'd better appreciate them more.

Inigo is my favourite though. He's something straight out of a Dumas novel.

[Beth]

Unlike Ez, I couldn't stand the Goldman story, particularly the bits about his family. When I hit the background to Buttercup's Baby, I quit. Give me action, adventure, piracy, poisoning, swords, chases, miracles (with cough drops) and the rest. But none of that tediousness with lawyers and producers.