Silver Screen Fiend

Learning About Life From an Addiction to Film

De: Patton Oswalt

Narrado por: Patton Oswalt

New York Times best-selling author, comedian, and actor Patton Oswalt shares his entertaining memoir about coming of age as a performer and writer in the late '90s while obsessively watching classic films at the legendary New Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles.

Between 1995 and 1999, Patton Oswalt lived with an unshakeable addiction. It wasn't drugs, alcohol, or sex. It was film. After moving to L.A., Oswalt became a huge film buff, absorbing classics and new releases at least three nights a week at the New Beverly Cinema. Silver screen celluloid became Patton's life schoolbook, informing his notions of acting, writing, comedy, and relationships. Set in the nascent days of the alternative comedy scene, Oswalt's memoir chronicles his journey from fledgling stand-up comedian to self-assured sitcom actor, with the colorful New Beverly collective supporting him all along the way.

Ideally timed for awards season, when everyone's mind is on Hollywood, Silver Screen Fiend follows up on the terrific reception of Oswalt's New York Times best-selling debut, Zombie Spaceship Wasteland. Already a beloved fixture on the comedy stage, on television, and in film - not to mention his 1.1 million Twitter followers - Oswalt announces, with this second book, that he's also here to stay on the page.

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'My Dinner with Andre' Meets 'A Season in Hell'

Using an impressive confessionatory style, Patton Oswalt talks about his love of film and the dangers of overindulgence in your passion to the exclusion of all else. And he talks about film: brilliantly, passionately and critically. It's also, strangely, a love-song to Los Angeles' Cinema Revival Houses and the act of going to the movies.

I devoured it compulsively. I recommend you do the same.

Wow what a great memoir!

This memoir was truly inspiring and a great story of the struggles of life with any addiction. But being a "sprocket fiend" is one of the greatest to read about. It's truly a treasure to have someone as talented and entertaining as Patton Oswalt write and read his own work and I look forward to all he has to offer in the future

a fun reminisce of 90s LA and SF

really enjoyed Patton's take on movies fame and the passion of a sprocket freak in mid 90s LA. This isn't just a see how clever I am comedian looking for attention kind of book. But an interesting examination about how we hide from life and eventually evolve

Patton weaves an engrossing tale

Fantastic story with a final lesson about living life, instead of watching other's idea of what life is.

for the film nerds

it's another thing that is training me to go to California to go to the west for movies abd comedy.
or in other words: meh.......

Good in parts

I like Payton Oswalt and this book is just about the perfect length. It isn’t particularly funny, nor particularly enlightening. It’s an interesting glimpse into his movie addiction but there isn’t much there there.

Movie Madness

This is the life of a film freak examined. Patton weaves his obsessive tale with humor and an unrelenting sincerity.

Interesting

Smart; it sometimes seemed a bit much. Not laugh out loud funny, but interesting.

devoured this. long drive, spent well.

Well done, Mr. Oswalt, sir. Thank you.

If you care, at all... Listen to this.

Entertaining

While not as inspired as his earlier zombie, spaceship, wasteland, this second autobiographical book is worth listening to. Knowledge of classic and cult films is optional, but it is a plus.