Silver Screen Fiend : Learning About Life from an Addiction to Film (CD-Audio)

from mstrust

A memoir about Oswalt's start and career in stand-up, wound through with his obsession with seeing (mostly) old movie at the rep theaters in L.A. He discusses great films, like "Sunset Boulevard", a weekend Hammer movie binge, and the horrible film that finally broke him of his several-a-week mov...

from john.cooper

I was pleasantly surprised by this life-lessons memoir, which was modestly expressed and so different from the movie-review compendium I was expecting. About two-thirds of the book centers on movies, and you're highly advised to have IMDB or another good film guide at your side, because Oswalt to...

from heradas

Terrific stuff. Vivid, touching, funny, full of great little stories and anecdotes about being a comic in LA in the mid-nineties.I hope he writes a few more of these memoirs, I'll read them all.

from ouroborosangel

I felt like this book was a love letter to film and an apology to Patton Oswalt's friends, family and colleagues who put up with him in his 20s. If you wish you could write letters to all those you ran over and disregarded at some point early in your life, then you will enjoy this book - even if ...

from bensdad00

One man explores his own peculiar form of mental illness. Excellent as biography, insightful as addiction memoir, instructive about the West Coast comedy scene in the 1990's. The only frustrating part is that it wasn't bundled with copies of all the less mainstream movies mentioned within.