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“Heroes hate wasting time. ‘You’re wasting my time,’ they’ll say. Yet they devote very little time to time management, and rarely consult a diary.”

The Grip of Film by Richard Ayoade

June 15, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

Another Ayoade book! So exciting! Except….wait. This is barely Ayoade. Yes, he wrote it, and yes, he does some narration- “some” being the key word in this situation. The Grip of Film is a fake book written by a fake person (written by Ayoade, naturally). The fake person is Gordy LaSure; a longtime Hollywood vagrant and alleged screenwriter. Gordy is a (purposefully) contemptible character; he has the bravado of The Kids Stays in the Picture with a fraction of the success and (at least) four times the casual […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Comedy/Humor, Fiction Tagged With: 80s movies, 90s movies, action movies, film, jesse eisenberg, jon korkes, Richard Ayoade, Satire, toxic masculinity

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR12 Review No:59 · Genres: Audiobooks, Comedy/Humor, Fiction · Tags: 80s movies, 90s movies, action movies, film, jesse eisenberg, jon korkes, Richard Ayoade, Satire, toxic masculinity ·
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This review is very late.

August 29, 2017 by narfna 2 Comments

So now y’all know just exactly how far behind I am in my reviews. We read this book back in June? I think? Effff, I wish I would have written this review back then. I had so many thoughts!! Now, they are mostly all gone. GONE I TELL YOU, like piss in the wind. Sorry, that was vulgar. Sometimes I am vulgar. It should pass. But you know what, I’m feeling in the mood right now. I’m full of it. What you might call piss […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: 80s movies, Cannonball Book Club Reads, essays, film, Hadley freeman, Life Moves Pretty Fast, narfna, Non-Fiction, Pop Culture

narfna's CBR9 Review No:62 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: 80s movies, Cannonball Book Club Reads, essays, film, Hadley freeman, Life Moves Pretty Fast, narfna, Non-Fiction, Pop Culture ·
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