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The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made
by Greg Sestero, Tom Bissell
A Masterpiece of Pop Culture Psychology
There aren't many books I've read in my life that I've been genuinely sad when they ended. This book earns its place as one of them. I've never seen ' The Room' in full (only via compilations of 'best' bits on YouTube) but it was clear even from them that Tommy Wiseau is a bizarre human being. This book could so easily have been nothing more than a withering take-down of a deluded egomaniac and his so-bad-it's-legendary movie, but instead the author writes with insight and compassion about the complex friend he never stopped trying to understand. The fact that he also starred in that movie (as the double-crossing best friend Mark) gives him the added bonus of being able to report from both sides of the battlefield, as it were. For this reason, I don't believe anyone else could have written this book this well. By the end of it I actually felt sorry for Tommy in many ways, and even though I'd still never want to meet him in person, I'm glad he achieved his dream. Sort of.
There aren't many books I've read in my life that I've been genuinely sad when they ended. This book earns its place as one of them. I've never seen ' The Room' in full (only via compilations of 'best' bits on YouTube) but it was clear even from them that Tommy Wiseau is a bizarre human being. This book could so easily have been nothing more than a withering take-down of a deluded egomaniac and his so-bad-it's-legendary movie, but instead the author writes with insight and compassion about the complex friend he never stopped trying to understand. The fact that he also starred in that movie (as the double-crossing best friend Mark) gives him the added bonus of being able to report from both sides of the battlefield, as it were. For this reason, I don't believe anyone else could have written this book this well. By the end of it I actually felt sorry for Tommy in many ways, and even though I'd still never want to meet him in person, I'm glad he achieved his dream. Sort of.