Silver Screen Fiend (Unabridged) Silver Screen Fiend (Unabridged)

Silver Screen Fiend (Unabridged‪)‬

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Publisher Description

The instant New York Times bestseller from author, comedian and actor Patton Oswalt, a “heartfelt and hilarious” (USA TODAY) memoir about coming of age as a performer during the late 1990s while obsessively watching classic films at a legendary theater in Los Angeles. “[Oswalt has] a set of synapses like a pinball machine and a prose style to match” (The New York Times).

Between 1995 and 1999, Patton Oswalt lived with an unshakable addiction. It wasn’t drugs, alcohol, or sex: it was film. After moving to Los Angeles, Oswalt became a huge film buff (or as he calls it, a sprocket fiend), absorbing classics, cult hits, and new releases at the famous New Beverly Cinema. Silver screen celluloid became Patton’s life schoolbook, informing his notion of acting, writing, comedy, and relationships.

Set in the nascent days of LA’s alternative comedy scene, Silver Screen Fiend chronicles Oswalt’s journey from fledgling stand-up comedian to self-assured sitcom actor, with the colorful New Beverly collective and a cast of now-notable young comedians supporting him all along the way. “Clever and readable...Oswalt’s encyclopedic knowledge and frothing enthusiasm for films (from sleek noir classics, to gory B movies, to cliché-riddled independents, to big empty blockbusters) is relentlessly present, whirring in the background like a projector” (The Boston Globe). More than a memoir, this is “a love song to the silver screen” (Paste Magazine).

GENRE
Biographies & Memoirs
NARRATOR
PO
Patton Oswalt
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
04:07
hr min
RELEASED
2015
January 6
PUBLISHER
Simon & Schuster Audio
SIZE
188.3
MB

Customer Reviews

Harpago77 ,

An Incredible Memoir

I loved Patton’s first book and expected this to be more of the same, just humorous takes on many of the films he loves. On the contrary, Payton uses his love of film - and where he was in his life when he saw them - as a framing device to walk us thoughtfully and intelligently through the corresponding formative events in his life. Thoughtful and thought provoking.

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