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On Close Reading – The Godfather Notebook
When I engage with fiction, I don’t tend to do close reads. I reserve these for academic nonfiction works. I was intrigued when I came across a post on Francis Ford Coppola’s notes on The Godfather, a book he eventually scripted and shot as director. The notes are published in The Godfather Notebook.
Obviously, Coppola had a reason to close-read or deep-read, but who among us annotates fiction qui
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"Blew me away. Part alien-encounter thriller, part small-town character study, part philosophical parable. At first it feels like we're in familiar rural-America realism-beer at Jake's, gravel roads, dogs, and dust. Then the ground shifts.
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i read over half of it. a couple times almost stopping, but wanted to give it the benefit of the doubt. after the 3rd scene that read like a badly written penthouse story, i gave up. if i could give it less than 1 star, i woul" Read more of this review » |
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