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After the chore that was Magda Szabó's The Door, I needed some light reading, so I picked up The Disaster Artist, Greg Sestero's account of his relationship with Tommy Wiseau and the making of The Room. It's a very entertaining and easy read. Someone named Dormin posted a review on the Slate Star Codex subreddit in which they compared and contrasted this book with its film adaptation (directed by and starring James Franco as Wiseau, and his brother Dave as Greg), arguing that the film had completely missed the point of the book. While Wiseau in the film adaptation of The Disaster Artist is weird, tactless, continually baffled by concepts which come naturally to most people and completely incompetent when it comes to the craft of filmmaking, he is essentially portrayed as a harmless nutcase. In the book, by contrast, Sestero presents him in a much darker light: rude and unpleasant for no good reason, paranoid, jealous, controlling, conniving, manipulative and indeed emotionally abusive. Given that Wiseau was involved in the production of the film adaptation, Dormin speculated that some softening of his portrayal was necessary to get him onboard. Highly recommended so far.
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