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Interesting insight into the mind of an assassin

Revisado: 09-22-24

It’s an interesting insight into an assassin. Absolutely no personality, so like many others in the special forces, he may be a high functioning psychopath.
In the audio version there are occasional lines that were recorded on a different occasion, with a different mic in a different room. When it happens you tend to wonder why. Was that a detail that needed to be redacted? Was it just a mistake in the original recording?
It’s a shame the author uses the end of book to promote right wing rhetoric, when most listen for an account of the Bin Laden assassination.

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Very predictable

Revisado: 09-08-24

Annoyingly, the story turned out exactly as I imagined it would from the beginning.

Perhaps I am missing some high-brow literary analogy, or I am a moron, but I cannot fathom how this won awards. It’s mundane, obvious, and nothing shifts from the single tone struck at the beginning.

I was waiting for any clever shift in direction, but unfortunately the book’s central message plodded on unchanging from beginning to end.

Which is that suicidal depression, is merely having regrets about not being in Coldplay, being a Cambridge professor, or marrying a rich man.

It’s impossible to feel invested in the bland characters. None of them seem to have any imagination, real personality traits, surprising ideas, realistic life challenges, or social ability. This may be due to the author being autistic.

The audiobook’s narrator has a monied voice due to being educated alongside royals and oligarchs at an elite private school.

She also happens to be married to one the aristocratic folk act - Mumford & Sons.

Were it not for a couple of clumsy token characters, the book would have existed in precisely the society that Winston, the fascist podcaster and Mumford banjo player would prefer.

It was worth a try. But it’s not for me.

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Phenomenal storytelling

Revisado: 04-21-24

David grew up on the other side of the planet from me. But I feel like I had the same insane experiences, the same new feelings, the same music…
I can’t wait to read anything else this lovely boy writes.

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No esoteric nonsense

Revisado: 04-04-24

This makes it very clear what your actual job as an actor is. It’s really helped me, and this is the fifth or sixth book I’ve read on the subject. I wish I had started with this.

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Fairly interesting but little in the way of insight

Revisado: 01-31-24

Fairly interesting but little in the way of insight. This is a two hour diary by someone who was a PA for a short while, then an editing assistant for a short while, on The Big Lebowski.
The author recounts a few conversations he remembers. There’s no mind-exploding inspirational moments for creatives to latch onto.
However it’s still worth a listen if you have a two hour drive somewhere. If only to remind you that Big Lebowski is an excellent film.

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A book isn’t going to work

Revisado: 01-12-24

I’d heard of Meisner. I’ve heard the word “genius” bounced around, and so I was excited to listen.
The problem is, this production, is an audiobook narrator. working from a book of transcripts,
of acting exercises which can only be fully understood if SEEN and HEARD.
I, and I’m sure all the listeners, have good imagination,s but how are we to see the subtle, magical difference in a good vs bad version of the Meisner technique, if the audiobook narrator always sounds like a slightly annoyed sportscaster?
I thoroughly recommend watching some YouTube clips from The Meisner Technique Studio. After this confusing, cult-like, seemingly pretentious nonsense, suddenly the technique made much more sense to me.
It’s never explicitly said in the book, but the point of all this torture, is for an actor to get used to reacting and listening naturally and realistically, thus changing acting from a broadcast, to an act of being.

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Great start, meanders, then fizzles out

Revisado: 01-01-24

The idea to involve his cast mates and construct a fictional whodunnit was promising. However, it seems the book was written without a plot. I think he started writing for fun, but with no structure in mind. It’s like a few ideas occurred to him along the way, but he never knew how to resolve them. So the book starts off promising, meanders, then fizzles out.

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Nonsense

Revisado: 10-24-23

I’m a Brit now living in Los Angeles. This book is written by someone who directed a few episodes of a terrible British daily soap opera.

The narrator has a rich and lovely authoritative voice. But the actual words are horsesh*t.

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Gross

Revisado: 08-03-23

This is not as you might suspect from the book title, a book on improv by someone who does comedy for a living.

This is a dry business book.

Norm may pass for an improv comedian to the conservative white tech bros he acts as a consultant to, but to normal people he isn’t.

This is a “how to manipulate people” manual written for white tech bros who run startups in Boston.

In fact, the author himself is a Boston-based CEO, tech bro, and general Musk type who “makes sh*t up” in a business setting.

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As if a Daily Mail journalist wrote a book…

Revisado: 05-18-23

Leather can write white male macho characters, but seems to struggle with women, who he characterizes as constantly nagging or crying. And the less said about his treatment of black characters the better.

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