Wednesday, June 25, 2008
 
Book Report: Paradise Alley by Sylvester Stallone (1977)
After almost winning an Academy Award for writing (Rocky, which ties Stallone with the number of almost Oscars as Roger L. Simon and puts him only one ahead of me), Stallone unleashed this book in bookstores before turning it into a film starring Stallone. Unlike Rocky, which dealt with boxing, this book deals with wrestling. And it's set in the 40s, not the present day (then), so it's completely different.

It's wooden, it's written pretty specifically in scenes for a movie, and it uses concrete poetry style arrangements of words to make points. But ultimately it didn't suck as bad as some novels movies are based on or some novelizations of movies.

Plus, I get to say I read Stallone's novel. It's mixed in with Austen, Dickens, and Hardy this year, but jeez, any kid in college reads those. I alone read Stallone.

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