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Book Review of Adventures in the Screen Trade: A Personal View of Hollywood and Screenwriting

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A great fun read, suitable for de-stressing with. His style is conversational and chatty. You'll learn a lot about how movies are made, and a lot about how to write -- he specifically meant it for how to write screenplays, but I found his advice useful for other kinds of fiction, too.

A lot of trends he spotted in 1983 as worrying and new are now full-blown in Hollywood's behavior, and his take on them is fascinating.