The Electric Hotel : A Novel (CD-Audio)

from mrmapcase

We step back in time back to when Hollywood was nowhere near California. This is an enthralling tale back when Thomas Edison controlled the studios, mixed in with brutality of WWI. Free review copy.

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Dominic Smith tells a very human story about the birth of the film industry in THE ELECTRIC HOTEL. His novel is replete with interesting historical facts about the struggle to move cinema from a curiosity to an artform, abundant technical details about early film and the machinery that ran it, an...

from siri51

Great storytelling - great characters - early silent film history

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I won an ARC of The Electric Hotel from a Goodreads giveaway. A historical fiction novel that transports the reader back to the early days of films. The first 100 pages gives a lot of information about the film industry and sets the stage for the main characters. I enjoyed the last 2/3 of the boo...

from nancyadair

I could not stop reading Dominic Smith's new novel The Electric Hotel. I was transported back in time to the heady early days of film, disturbed by a trek into the horrors of WWI, and enthralled by the vivid characters and their stories, especially the tragic story of unrequited love. Claude Ball...