Becoming Superman: A Writer's Journey from Poverty to Hollywood with Stops Along the Way at Murder, Madness, Mayhem, Movie Stars, Cults, Slums, Sociopaths, and War Crimes

Publié 14 mai 2019 par Harper Voyager.

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978-0-06-285784-2
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For four decades, J. Michael Straczynski has been one of the most successful writers in Hollywood, one of the few to forge multiple careers in movies, television and comics. Yet there’s one story he’s never told before: his own.

In this dazzling memoir, the acclaimed writer behind Babylon 5, Sense8, Clint Eastwood’s Changeling and Marvel’s Thor reveals how the power of creativity and imagination enabled him to overcome the horrors of his youth and a dysfunctional family haunted by madness, murder and a terrible secret.

Joe's early life nearly defies belief. Raised by damaged adults—a con-man grandfather and a manipulative grandmother, a violent, drunken father and a mother who was repeatedly institutionalized—Joe grew up in abject poverty, living in slums and projects when not on the road, crisscrossing the country in his father’s desperate attempts to escape the consequences of his past.

To survive his abusive environment Joe found refuge …

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A swift journey through an author's life

4 étoiles

The only book I'd managed to stick with and read through in months was a Star Trek oral history, so after a few more failures to find traction I figured I'd read the autobiography of the guy who created Babylon 5. It had far less about the specifics of any works JMS has done than I was expecting, but it was an engaging read nonetheless, in no small part because as it turns out the author's family was . . . rather horrifying. The author's straightforward and quickwitted style makes that go down smoothly, perhaps even a bit too smoothly as it never dwells on much long enough to become a meditation; it feels like it loses a bit of entertainment and a bit of depth due to this lack, but maybe it is what it needs to be.

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J. Michael Straczynski est un auteur que j’ai d’abord connu par Babylon 5, qui reste à mes yeux l’une des meilleures séries TV de science-fiction, si ce n’est la meilleure. Il y démontrait son talent pour l’écriture, à la fois de personnages qui évoluaient véritablement, et d’un récit complet construit sur cinq saisons construits comme cinq actes d’un roman d’envergure.

Je connaissais cependant mal l’homme lui-même et ses autres créations, même si je savais qu’il avait participé à l’écriture de la série Sense8 de Netflix. J’ai donc lu avec intérêt son autobiographie publiée cet été, intitulée Becoming Superman et dont le sous-titre My Journey from Poverty to Hollywood, with Stops Along the Way at Murder, Madness, Mayhem, Movie Stars, Cults, Slums, Sociopaths, and War Crimes poussait laisser craindre le pire, si on ne connaissait pas le talent et le sens de l’humour de son auteur.

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