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Tue | August 16, 2005
the whole equation
finally finished that book, the whole equation. don't know what i'm going to read next. had wanted to write a 'review' of that book but don't think i will.
then again a disjointed commentary is better than none at all? it was a very casual and sketchy book. or the positive way to say that is that it was conversational, warm, informal, friendly.
I did come away with a list of films to watch and a couple of books to read, and a stronger sense of the history of film, which is only about a hundred years old. that is a fact I would not have been able to say with confidence before I read this book. I am not so good at dates. I also learned some of the major people in the film business, especially as it grew and came of age. I just liked the words he used, had an affinity for his vocab at his book signing. some of that but not as much in his book. interesting phrases and ways of saying things here and there. At some points he blathers on for no reason about something else. like how much movies cost and how much they make. numbers mean nothing to me. Much of the book means nothing to me. If you say 10 million I don't really know what that means. Anyway I think I like the mushy approach approximate not clinical and exact. yet it was very surprising to me that it was written like that. there are LOTS of sentence fragments in this book. it's like entirely unedited. like this. and it's kind of R-rated. talks in passing about sex and uses swear words. at one point he offers an explanation of why americans are fat. it's a random, flimsy book that is generally organized and does go in a particular direction, but it's also kind of lost in space at the same time.
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