

Actors Anonymous
Author: James Franco
Narrator: James Franco
Unabridged: 8 hr 58 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 10/15/2013
Categories: Fiction, Humorous, Literary Fiction
Author: James Franco
Narrator: James Franco
Unabridged: 8 hr 58 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 10/15/2013
Categories: Fiction, Humorous, Literary Fiction
JAMES FRANCO is the talented, ubiquitous, popular, and provocative actor, director, author, and visual artist. His first book, the story collection Palo Alto, was published in 2010.
So this was weird. Going into this I had a pretty ambivalent attitude towards James Franco and after reading this book I kind of still do. I don't really know what to make of this very odd book or the man who wrote it. Is it the ramblings of a madman? Is it a monument to narcissism? Is it a desperate......more
I finished this novel last night and figured I'd better post a review while it's still fresh in my mind. And that's because in many ways it reminds me of a graduate course I took senior year in college called Communications and Literature. I was supposed to take this lame senior seminar as a require......more
I tried to avoid reading reviews before reading this book because I wanted to go into it with a blank slate, but I couldn’t help reading all the GoodRead reviews. Even after reading bad reviews I decided to give him a chance. There’s no doubt Franco has a talent writing but, like quite a few writers......more
Parts of this mess are actually quite good. The premise is interesting, and might have been made into a decent experimental short story. But as a novel? Any novel where you can skip entire sections without losing anything is not really working. The elements which referred to real life James Franco (......more
“Actors Anonymous is a book for anyone who enjoys delving under the surface of Hollywood…An engaging exploration of the weird and wonderful and a fascinating piece of escapism.” —The Daily Express“In Actors Anonymous, Franco performs an auto-celebrity roast that is at once mordantly funny, maddening, and provocative…a kind of intellectual companion piece to his role in This Is the End.” —Claudia Puig, USA Today“Franco deftly switches between these different characters’ voices and fearlessly experiments with form throughout the book: one section is a screenplay, while another is made up entirely of footnotes. But what makes this book so powerful is Franco’s own confessional voice. Perhaps this is finally a personal introduction to a man ready to be unmasked himself.” —Columbia Magazine