I'll fill this out more and more as I think of what to say for some of the books I've read & any future ones I end up reading.
The Disaster Artist
From the actor who lived through it all and an award-winning narrative nonfiction writer: the inspiring and laugh-out-loud funny story of a mysteriously wealthy social misfit who got past every road block in the Hollywood system to achieve success on his own terms—the making of The Room, “the Citizen Kane of bad movies” (Entertainment Weekly).
The hilarious and inspiring story of how a mysterious misfit got past every roadblock in the Hollywood system to achieve success on his own terms: a $6 million cinematic catastrophe called The Room.
A very great read for those who find stories of movie disasters fascinating, as I did. Everything about The Room is bizarre and surreal, and the book really lets you see just how surreal it is, and then some.
House Of Leaves
Neither Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Will Navidson nor his companion Karen Green was prepared to face the consequences of the impossibility of their new home, until the day their two little children wandered off and their voices eerily began to return another story—of creature darkness, of an ever-growing abyss behind a closet door, and of that unholy growl which soon enough would tear through their walls and consume all their dreams.
A very long and surreal read, one that'll leave you having to actually twist and turn the book around just to read some of it. A book that'll suck you in to the point where you end up looking up the footnotes wondering if any of them is true. It's a book that is excellently made, with the depiction and theories around the house and the downward spiral of everything the house does to the people within the book and the people trying to make sense of the book being fascinatingly well told in the midst of all the insane literary analysis that happens.
