Full name: Silver Screen Fiend: Learning About Life from an Addiction to Film

Author: Patton Oswalt Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Memoirs, Non Fiction, Movies, Humor Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9781451673227

Between 1995 and 1999, Patton Oswalt lived with an unshakable addiction. It wasn't drugs, alcohol, or sex: it was film. After moving to Los Angeles, Oswalt became a huge film buff (or as he calls it, a sprocket fiend), absorbing classics, cult hits, and new releases at the famous New Beverly Cinema. Silver screen celluloid became Patton's life schoolbook, informing his notion of acting, writing, comedy, and relationships. Set in the nascent days of LA's alternative comedy scene, Silver Screen Fiend chronicles Oswalt's journey from fledgling stand-up comedian to self-assured sitcom actor, with the colorful New Beverly collective and a cast of now-notable young comedians supporting him all along the way. Similar books: I Must Say by Martin Short The Disaster Artist by Greg Sestero The Film Club by David Gilmour I Can't Make This Up by Kevin Hart It's Only a Movie by Mark Kermode If Chins Could Kill by Bruce Campbell Back Story by David Mitchell Too Fat to Fish by Artie Lange Almost Interesting by David Spade Attempting Normal by Marc Maron Role Models by John Waters Rob Delaney: Mother. Wife. Sister. Human. Warrior. Falcon. Yardstick. Turban. Cabbage. by Rob Delaney If You Ask Me by Betty White Is It Just Me? by Miranda Hart Nerd Do Well by Simon Pegg Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain Dry by Augusten Burroughs The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson Let's Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson Why Not Me? by Mindy Kaling