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(More customer reviews)I should have listened to the guy at the book store who said I should not spend the twenty bucks on this book. I figured the salesman must be an embittered unpublished author because after all, on the back of the book there are props from the likes of Elmore Leonard, it's called "funny" by the very funny Mike Myers and John Ridley claims it's got the "best opening line in modern American literature and just gets better". The best thing about the book is that it's short and simple so at least MC doesn't seem to take himself as seriously as his supporters do. By the time I was done I couldn't help but wonder if the fact that Helen Hunt is this guys girlfriend not only helped him to get the blurbs but a publishing deal in the first place. It's not the worst book I've ever read, just very half baked. Aside from a thin story, the characters are nothing but faded caricatures. Not only does the writing show MC is far from a literary genius but his return to his Hollywood roots provides a predictably flat ending. It just occured to me that MC reminds me of a grungier male version of Gigi Grazer in that they both writes books with potential but no ambition.
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