Book Details
| Title: |
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Hollywood Babylon II |
| Author: |
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Kenneth Anger |
| Times Read: |
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1 |
| Last Read: |
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10.22.06 |
Other Books Read By This Author (1)
- Hollywood Babylon
Notes History
| Date Read |
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| 10.22.06 | the sequel to the great Hollywood Babylon, this one coming out in the 80s. It's a really thin sequel of a book... it feels like he wrote a whole book just so he can get two or three chapters out into the world (Reagan-hating, cocaine-hating, and Liz Taylor is fat). There's also so many pictures that I bet, if boiled down to just text, a good 40% of the actual writing in the book would be found in the monster 70-page chapter on Hollywood suicides, which reads less like salacious prose than dry ledger accounts of who died by what. Sure some of the pictures are good, and they all share that trademark Holly Baby unflattery, but for the most part the book feels like an attempt at more money. |
