Funny
Comedy books are not my cup of tea. However, from the first page of Hollywood Want To Kill You: The Peculiar Science of Death In The Movies, I was laughing to my stomach's content.
In the sense of analyzing famous films and their emphasis on ways of dying, many bizarre and thought-provoking facts, theories, and hypotheses are all bundled up. That is, specifically the forms in which populations are brought to mass death. An inconvenient but fascinating topic.
The terminology is deliberately chosen to be open to all, always with the help of charts, graphs, and diagrams, with the scientific words carefully explained. In order to be conveniently missed, the slightly tedious in-jokes and insults between the two writers are limited to comic-strip dialogue illustrations.
There are still some spoilers in the novel, but you are forewarned (sometimes). In reality, it describes various ways to die and finds reference in a Hollywood film for each form of death. I enjoyed it and learned a few new things along the way. Well-spend money.
This was a thought-provoking book. Who knew death could be so fun.
In the sense of analyzing famous films and their emphasis on ways of dying, many bizarre and thought-provoking facts, theories, and hypotheses are all bundled up. That is, specifically the forms in which populations are brought to mass death. An inconvenient but fascinating topic.
The terminology is deliberately chosen to be open to all, always with the help of charts, graphs, and diagrams, with the scientific words carefully explained. In order to be conveniently missed, the slightly tedious in-jokes and insults between the two writers are limited to comic-strip dialogue illustrations.
There are still some spoilers in the novel, but you are forewarned (sometimes). In reality, it describes various ways to die and finds reference in a Hollywood film for each form of death. I enjoyed it and learned a few new things along the way. Well-spend money.
This was a thought-provoking book. Who knew death could be so fun.