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Zeroville takes a lot of chances and weaves one of the strongest contemporary myths I've read. It has an interest in Hollywood nostalgia and a sensibility of epic surrealism...
I really don't care about old Hollywood movies, and there are long, long passages in which the protagonist ponders them/converses about them. The sections seemed mostly expository, a chance for Erickson and film geek readers to geek out together, and they didn't really hurt my enjoyment of the text.
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Zeroville by Steve Erickson
emp, October 7, 2008
Zeroville takes a lot of chances and weaves one of the strongest contemporary myths I've read. It has an interest in Hollywood nostalgia and a sensibility of epic surrealism...I really don't care about old Hollywood movies, and there are long, long passages in which the protagonist ponders them/converses about them. The sections seemed mostly expository, a chance for Erickson and film geek readers to geek out together, and they didn't really hurt my enjoyment of the text.
(2 of 4 readers found this comment helpful)