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jaibee 's review for:
The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made
by Greg Sestero, Tom Bissell
Verging on a 4.5!
So let me set the scene first. I saw the film (The Disaster Artist, not The Room) when it came out last year. I bought the book on Kindle cos I had some vouchers. In a bid to get through my backlog of unread books, I made a list, assigned them all a number, and used a randomiser to pick my next read, and this one came up, and I sort of pulled a face cos it wasn’t the one I would’ve picked by a long shot. I was expecting a whole book of ‘wtf this dude is wild, let’s laugh at him’, a bit like the film.
But I really enjoyed it - the bits that didn’t make it into the film were actually really poignant and sad; Tommy has clearly had a very difficult life and was obviously struggling when Greg came into his life, and it was interesting to read that all from Greg’s perspective, while he was dealing with his own problems.
It’s also an interesting look into the life of a a struggling young actor as we follow Greg around LA in the years before The Room - I’d have liked a chapter on Greg’s life after The Room’s release though; what did he do next?
Would recommend if you’re a fan of The Room, or just interested in a little peek behind the Hollywood curtain.
So let me set the scene first. I saw the film (The Disaster Artist, not The Room) when it came out last year. I bought the book on Kindle cos I had some vouchers. In a bid to get through my backlog of unread books, I made a list, assigned them all a number, and used a randomiser to pick my next read, and this one came up, and I sort of pulled a face cos it wasn’t the one I would’ve picked by a long shot. I was expecting a whole book of ‘wtf this dude is wild, let’s laugh at him’, a bit like the film.
But I really enjoyed it - the bits that didn’t make it into the film were actually really poignant and sad; Tommy has clearly had a very difficult life and was obviously struggling when Greg came into his life, and it was interesting to read that all from Greg’s perspective, while he was dealing with his own problems.
It’s also an interesting look into the life of a a struggling young actor as we follow Greg around LA in the years before The Room - I’d have liked a chapter on Greg’s life after The Room’s release though; what did he do next?
Would recommend if you’re a fan of The Room, or just interested in a little peek behind the Hollywood curtain.