Plus, there’s no membership fee or premium charge for these books. Books are carefully chosen by our staff of readers, and our picks have gone on to earn major recognition including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the PEN/Faulkner Award. More about our First Editions Club: Every member receives a first edition of the selected book of the month, signed by the author. I would have been happy to live inside this book forever. Its gravity pulls you in and its far reaching, multi-layered, rollicking exuberance holds you in place. The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece is its own universe, complete with a sun, a cast of circling planets, and a limitless number of stars. Here’s what I said about the book on the jacket, and I meant every word:
Reading this book is, I imagine, the closest most of us will ever get to being part of a motion picture masterpiece. It teems with Life Force and Big Ideas that reach out in an unbelievable number of directions. Still, it doesn’t stand to reason that you could do the other thing this well.Įverything about this book is wild.
If you spend your life doing one thing, maybe it stands to reason that you could do the other. If you’re good at it (and he is), it’s one of the most creative and imaginative acts: giving yourself over in order to become someone else. It took a while to understand that someone who could act that well could also write that well, but when you think about it, acting is about diving into a character and paying attention to the characters around you. Of course, Tom’s first book, Uncommon Type, was great, too. You know what happens when you’re a member of a First Editions Club that’s run by a friend of Tom Hanks? You get a signed first edition of The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece, to which I say, lucky you, and lucky me.
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