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2006.06.13

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Alice

I loved Please Kill Me too. I found the style to be absolutely riveting. The only other book I've found that uses interviews in the same way is Live from New York by Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller. It's a completely fascinating look at Saturday Night Live, and I'd definitely recommend it.

Lisa

Me too! I got it for Christmas in 2002, and happily devoured it over the next day or two. I wrote a review of it -- comparing and contrasting to another SNL book in our library, _Saturday Night: A Backstage History of "Saturday Night Live" -- for Teevee over three years ago. You can find the review here.

Emilie

Yep, I read (devoured) both of Paul Feig's books and thought, "No WONDER Freaks and Geeks seemed so authentic!"

silene

Heh...I just picked up "The Other Hollywood" yesterday at the library. I certainly wish I would have seen your warning about not reading that and nothing else for two days straight. I'm about 1/2 way through (it's a fast read, no?) and...yeah. Your warning stands true.

Alice

Good reviews of the SNL books, Lisa!

I'm off to buy the Saturday Night book now - Amazon absolutely loves me this week!

liz

Yeah, on a lot of the commentary tracks on the F&G DVDs, they (writers, cast members, Judd Apatow--everyone, basically) really rib Feig about taking most of Sam's storylines from his own adolescence, although they also add that he was significantly older when a lot of the things happen. The commentaries are pretty rad--and there are like, 4,000 of them. Highly recommended.

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