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Lädt ... Life's Work: A Memoir (2022. Auflage)von David Milch (Autor)
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. I listened to the audio version of this book. Michael Harney narrates. Probably more than any other audio book narrator I’ve listened to, and I’ve listened to many, Harney was nothing short of perfect. In fact, I often lament the fact that an author chooses not to narrate his or her own book. In this case, I can’t imagine David Milch being any more effective than Harney was. Now, about the book itself. Much of what I read while looking for a book to listen to sounded like this would be a memoir of a man stricken by Alzheimer’s. Milch did, indeed, talk about this but not until late in the book and there was little dwelling on the subject. And, after all, what is there to dwell on? It is catastrophic what happened to one of the most brilliant television writers of our time. But there isn’t a whole more that could be said than that. Most of the book is about writing, mainly the process of writing. There is also a lot of very interesting information about individual series that Milch wrote: N.Y. P.D. Blue, Hill Street Blues, and Deadwood to name a few. Many others either didn’t make it to pilot, or, if they did, weren’t renewed beyond one season. One thing is true of all of them, however: they were all excellent shows with top notch writing. If I were teaching writing again (I’m a retired English teacher), I would use this book in my class. My guess is it’s used in more than one college writing class right now. Milch’s personal life, filled with addiction (to both substances and gambling), is painful to listen to. His wife, Rita Stern, like many spouses of victims of addiction, is responsible for saving David’s life and the family’s livelihood. Near the end of the book Milch reveals what his wife found out after meeting with their accountant. It is astounding. Most people would go to the garage and hook up the exhaust and wait for the end after being told what their accountant told her. That wasn’t Stern, however. She made a plan to get them out of financial armageddon, part of which meant putting David on a $60 a week allowance. This is a man who spent hundreds of thousands of dollars the we most of us spend $20. Rita Stern is nothing short of a saint. I highly recommend this book to anyone with the remotest interest in writing. I also recommend it to anyone who just enjoys a meaningful memoir, warts and all. Zeige 2 von 2 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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""I feel like I'm on a boat sailing to some island where I don't know anybody. I'm on a boat someone is operating and we aren't in touch." So begins David Milch's urgent accounting of his increasingly strange present and often painful past. From the start, Milch's life seems destined to echo that of his father, a successful if drug-addicted surgeon. Almost every achievement is accompanied by an act of self-immolation, but the deepest sadnesses also contain moments of grace. Betting on race horses and stealing booze at eight years old, mentored by Robert Penn Warren and excoriated by Richard Yates at twenty-one, Milch never did anything by half. He got into Yale Law only to be expelled for shooting out street lights with a shotgun. He paused his studies at the Iowa Writers' Workshop to manufacture acid in Cuernavaca. He created and wrote some of the biggest, most lauded television series of all time, made a family and pursued sobriety, and then lost his fortune betting horses just as his father had taught him"-- Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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I love him with all my heart, for his kindness, his generosity, and for allowing me a small part in his artistic genius at play. If you care about art or creativity or the human experience, you simply must read this book. ( )