Becoming Superman: My Journey from Poverty to Hollywood (Audiobook)

from Kavinay

You come into this book excited to learn more about shows, cartoons and movies that JMS has enriched your life with. That's all there, but the real life upbringing and family of the author is the true driving narrative of this book and every bit as compelling and shocking as any fiction ever put ...

from DarthDeverell

In Becoming Superman: My Journey From Poverty to Hollywood, with Stops Along the Way at Murder, Madness, Mayhem, Movie Stars, Cults, Slums, Sociopaths, and War Crimes, J. Michael Straczynski delves deep into his own history, beginning with his grandparents through to the modern day while also dis...

from StormRaven

J. Michael Straczynski could have played it safe. He's been the creator, showrunner, or producer for several successful live action television shows, as well as a couple of animated series - all of which performed better when he was associated with them than when he was not. He's had successful r...

from SpaceandSorcery

Biographies are not part of my usual “reading menu”, but in this very special case I decided to make an exception: J. Michael Strackzynski (JMS for brevity) is the creator - among an amazing number of other works in several mediums - of the SF show Babylon 5, which I consider the peak of televise...

from datrappert

If this story were fiction, no one would believe it. The cover gives you an idea--murder, madness, cults, and war crimes. No father in any biography I have ever read--or any work of fiction I have read--falls to the depths of Straczynski's father's cruelty and abuse. By rights, he should have bee...