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Sunday, 10 January 2016 10:18 pm
Book Review: Silver Screen Fiend
Yes, I'd said I was reading Good Omens and thus led you to expect that I would review it next. Alas, I injudiciously took it to a movie theater on Christmas and left it behind. You can't really go back and check there yourself. I left information at the lost-and-found, but to no avail. I settled for ordering a copy at the library. Fortunately, I had received the gift of this new book -- Patton Oswalt's memoir from last year -- to tide me over, somewhat appropriately.
I couldn't have told you from memory that Oswalt voiced Remy in Ratatouille, let alone anything else he'd done. Now I'll remember, even if the book focuses primarily on his life in the second half of the '90s.
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I can't say I found it hilarious like the excerpted reviewers did, just fitfully funny. It is somewhat interesting to peer into the mind of a struggling entertainer and addict -- when he's not struggling to make the reader understand. But if I want an irreverent sense of humor, recondite references, and a strange method of organization, I'll keep reading Good Omens. Which I will.
I couldn't have told you from memory that Oswalt voiced Remy in Ratatouille, let alone anything else he'd done. Now I'll remember, even if the book focuses primarily on his life in the second half of the '90s.
( Cut for length )
I can't say I found it hilarious like the excerpted reviewers did, just fitfully funny. It is somewhat interesting to peer into the mind of a struggling entertainer and addict -- when he's not struggling to make the reader understand. But if I want an irreverent sense of humor, recondite references, and a strange method of organization, I'll keep reading Good Omens. Which I will.