Half star, but should be no stars. What an awful book.
Ok, first of all, I had thought that it might actually be a collection of initial draft material collected from authors, about early ideas for their work. Might be interesting, right? Well, yes, that might have been, but that's not what this book is.
This is an author and "comedian" who is himself making jokes about what he thinks bad drafts could have been for other works.
Ok, fair enough, could still be amusing, right?
No. None of it is even remotely funny. For example:
An early title for the movie "The King's Speech" is "The King's S-s-s-s-s-s-p-p-peech" by David Seidler, with a pretend handwritten editor's note stating "This is offensive David."
And that is an entire page.
Another "hilarious" entry is for "The Hurt Locker" which also has pretend edits suggesting that the name is "boring" and maybe it should have been named "The Boo Boo Room" or "The Ouchie Place."
Seriously. I wish I was joking, but no, there really isn't anything that's funny surrounding this piece of "literature."
I put it back up on my bookshelf, but I couldn't in good conscience allow the copy I have to exist. I have since taken it down, and thrown it in the recycling bin.
Ok, first of all, I had thought that it might actually be a collection of initial draft material collected from authors, about early ideas for their work. Might be interesting, right? Well, yes, that might have been, but that's not what this book is.
This is an author and "comedian" who is himself making jokes about what he thinks bad drafts could have been for other works.
Ok, fair enough, could still be amusing, right?
No. None of it is even remotely funny. For example:
An early title for the movie "The King's Speech" is "The King's S-s-s-s-s-s-p-p-peech" by David Seidler, with a pretend handwritten editor's note stating "This is offensive David."
And that is an entire page.
Another "hilarious" entry is for "The Hurt Locker" which also has pretend edits suggesting that the name is "boring" and maybe it should have been named "The Boo Boo Room" or "The Ouchie Place."
Seriously. I wish I was joking, but no, there really isn't anything that's funny surrounding this piece of "literature."
I put it back up on my bookshelf, but I couldn't in good conscience allow the copy I have to exist. I have since taken it down, and thrown it in the recycling bin.
