Saturday, December 11, 2010

'Zeroville' A Recommendation

I reread one of my favorite books 'Zeroville' by Steve Erickson, start to finish yesterday. It's written in a series of short chapters going from 1 to 227 and and then back down to 0. It starts with the main character Vikar showing up in L.A. in 1969 because he wants to be involved with the movies. He's raised in a super religious way that the book doesn't really delve into but they refer to a point when he discovered movies and then became obsessed. The author said in an interview "I didn't want to write a book about making movies, I wanted to write a book about loving movies." And thats what it is, an expression of pure love for something. I highly recommend it.

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