Air Guitar Single eBook Griffin Dunne
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Short biographical stories of teenage delusions
Air Guitar Single eBook Griffin Dunne
In the four humorous essays in this collection, author Griffin Dunne spins maybe-they're-partly-true yarns which move at a fast clip. These are not so much morality tales as the kind of funny stories someone might tell during a late night TV show interview, punctuated with lots of side jokes and ending with a satisfying twist. "The Kennedy Letters" is a story about wanting something so badly you'd do anything to pretend you have it. "Air Guitar" is a flight of fancy, mocking the pretensions of the cultural elite. "Radio City" is about - literally - filling someone else's shoes in a new job. And "The Dress" - which sounds like an episode of Seinfeld - plays out in a similar way, with the foibles of a bumbling guy not quite getting the reaction he expects. These stories weren't laugh-out-loud funny, but they make great bedside reading.Product details
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Air Guitar Single eBook Griffin Dunne Reviews
When I first saw this Single, I did a double-take. Wait a minute, Griffin Dunne... isn't he the movie actor? American Werewolf in London, and a bunch of other movies in the 80s and 90s? Yes, it turns out, same guy. Well okay, but can he write?
I downloaded the sample to find out, and he had me hooked right away. The single is a quick read, but it's a hoot. Yes, he can write quite well, but it's his sense of humor, timing, and engaging personality that carry these stories, four vignettes from his life in California as a kid and New York City as a young man. I thoroughly enjoyed this single and recommend it highly.
Dunne pulls the reader close to whisper hilarious tales of his adventures real and daydreamed as a young man finding his way in New York. Witty and charming at every turn, he infuses his humor with laser sharp details, constructing what is ultimately a heartfelt meditation on the worthiness of love.
This collection of short stories should be preserved under glass at the Smithsonian. Mr. Dunne's talent as an actor/director has added hyphenates as writer and humorist. "Air Guitar" is wildly entertaining and I look forward to reading his next book.
I have to change health clubs. I brought my to my gym and while I strode manfully on the conveyor belt I got a lot of hard stares because of my loud barking laughs as I happily clicked my way through AIR GUITAR. Dunne has brought his cinema-bred story-telling skills to the page and created a voice that is wonderfully present --guilty and rising above guilt, self-lacerating and unreconstructed, blessed and trapped, and always alive to nuance and culture. This is weird and wonderful stuff.
I have always been a fan of Dunne. Good character actor in almost everything he has been in. I was looking forward to reading this short book based on some reviews. This was just a futile effort and excuse to drop names. Still not sure if anything was true - did he really sleep with Ali McGraw & Julie Christie? Did he really give Joe Cocker the idea to name his tour Mad Dogs & Englishmen"? Did he really smuggle heroin up his ass for the Rolling Stones? He wrote the Dalai Lama once advised his to "ease up on the namedropping. Griffin - heed those words, PLEASE.
A very entertaining read. Griffin Dunne's prodigious talent as a raconteur is evident in these four short pieces which bring to mind both Gray's monologue "Sex And Death To The Age 14" and "Without Feathers," Allen's early pieces for the New Yorker. The only disappointment was that there weren't a dozen comic essays in this collection - but one can hope that there are more to come. In fact, one might hope that Dunne will eventually expand these into some kind of extended performance piece...
The author obviously used his Hollywood and family connections to write a few paragraphs. Why in the world except those connections would a publisher allow this to be released. A few sentences of name dropping and then the book ? abruptly ends.
In the four humorous essays in this collection, author Griffin Dunne spins maybe-they're-partly-true yarns which move at a fast clip. These are not so much morality tales as the kind of funny stories someone might tell during a late night TV show interview, punctuated with lots of side jokes and ending with a satisfying twist. "The Kennedy Letters" is a story about wanting something so badly you'd do anything to pretend you have it. "Air Guitar" is a flight of fancy, mocking the pretensions of the cultural elite. "Radio City" is about - literally - filling someone else's shoes in a new job. And "The Dress" - which sounds like an episode of Seinfeld - plays out in a similar way, with the foibles of a bumbling guy not quite getting the reaction he expects. These stories weren't laugh-out-loud funny, but they make great bedside reading.
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