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Book Club?
« on: Jul 23, 2012, 03:11 pm »
So I am compiling my summer reading lists and was wondering if anyone was interested in starting a smnetwork book club/discussion group (sorry if one already exists, I couldn't find it).

My current reading list is as follows below (based on books I already own). Most of them are theatre related (because I'm a geek). I would be open to suggestions as well. Anyone interested?


1. Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson

2. Shamanism by Eliade

3. Training of the American Actor edited by Arthur Bartow

4. Towards a Poor Theatre by Grotowski

5. The Theatre and Its Double by Artaud

6. The Empty Space by Peter Brook

7. The Open Door by Peter Brook

8. Myths to Live By by Joseph Campbell

9. Theatre by David Mamet




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Re: Book Club?
« Reply #1 on: Jul 23, 2012, 03:33 pm »
If you're interested, there is a discussion thread about Edward Marston's "The Queen's Head" over here: http://smnetwork.org/forum/the-green-room/discussion-edward-marston's-the-queen's-head/ . I haven't read it myself but from the descriptions of others it sounds like a fun read!

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Re: Book Club?
« Reply #2 on: Jul 23, 2012, 04:21 pm »
Cool, thanks. I'll check and see if my library has it!
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Re: Book Club?
« Reply #3 on: Jun 27, 2013, 01:53 am »
Has anybody read the "Backstage Boys" romance novels by Jennifer Stevenson?

http://www.amazon.com/Fools-Paradise-Backstage-Boys-ebook/dp/B0036TH4DS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1372311851&sr=8-1&keywords=fool%27s+paradise+backstage+boys

Offstage Jobs tweeted a link to an interview with the author a few weeks ago, who is apparently married to a Chicago IATSE member, and they just sound so utterly ridiculous!  I haven't read one yet, going to check the library before I shell out for the kindle edition, so I cannot attest to the quality of writing, accuracy in the depiction of life backstage, or the level of smuttiness.

Has anybody else read them? Or shall I take one for the team and report back later?
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Re: Book Club?
« Reply #4 on: Jun 27, 2013, 01:04 pm »
Good lord. You could not pay me to crack that book open.  ???

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Re: Book Club?
« Reply #5 on: Jun 28, 2013, 04:54 pm »
Has anybody read the "Backstage Boys" romance novels by Jennifer Stevenson?

Those are the guys who did tech for the Backstreet Boys, right?   ;)

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Re: Book Club?
« Reply #6 on: Jun 29, 2013, 05:31 pm »
Perhaps you could try reading the Kindle sample?  It does have 3 5-star user reviews...

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Re: Book Club?
« Reply #7 on: Jul 01, 2013, 06:25 pm »
Wow. I went to the link for Fools Paradise - there's a snippet available there if you click to "read inside."

Horrible.

I can't get past "Chapter 1" which appears to be all of 1.5 pages.

And the story starts with Spot 2 cutting out in the middle of an opera during his cue...

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Re: Book Club?
« Reply #8 on: Jul 01, 2013, 10:07 pm »
Chicago mob as a plot device? Again? #smh

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Re: Book Club?
« Reply #9 on: Jul 02, 2013, 07:16 am »
Why are there so many Bobby's? 1.5 pages, and I'm already confused! What an absurd opening.

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Re: Book Club?
« Reply #10 on: Jul 02, 2013, 10:43 am »
This can't be real!

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Re: Book Club?
« Reply #11 on: Jul 02, 2013, 03:42 pm »
I just read the first chapter. It's awful.

"I just wanna be a stagehand in the local! But Grandpa says I'm just a girl!"

And he WALKED OUT OF THE THEATER IN THE MIDDLE OF A CUE.
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Re: Book Club?
« Reply #12 on: Jul 02, 2013, 08:32 pm »
this is a little off topic but...

preface this by saying I am addicted to the Korean soaps, so much so that I will be learning Korean so I can follow the show better (the translations are hysterically bad in too many cases).

There is a new show (actually a Japanese soap) about three young single girls looking for love - and one is a lighting tech in a big theater in Tokyo. And she does legitmate things, hanging lights, running the spot, etc etc - her fellow spot op (who is to be her love interest, I think), who just came back from the US....they all go to the US, it's weird... calls their spot cues together with "go" as if no one ever thought of that. So far, it's fun to see the job actually being done right (of course, it's only the 2nd episode).
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