American Rhapsody
 

American Rhapsody

by Joe Eszterhas

American Rhapsody is a gleeful act of outrage, simultaneously an assault on the Clintons and a bridge-burning, tell-all Hollywood memoir in the wicked spirit of You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again. Joe Eszterhas's narrative is a torrent of consciousness with no consistent sense of direction, but it all erupts from a plausible organizing principle best articulated in the chapter "Bubba... (read more)

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JoeIsReading
  • Rated 2 stars

The book's biggest failing is that Eszterhas is trying to emulate his Rolling Stone contemporary, Hunter S. Thompson, by taking a somewhat gonzo approach to the proceedings. But there's only one HST, and the result is that the Eszterhas approach is so spread across the map that in this book he comes across as being somewhat misanthropic.

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  • Rated 3 stars
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  • Rated 3.5 stars
 

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